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Pages 4 and 5 4and Pages clubs hottest NYE's BELGRADE INSIGHT IS PUBLISHED BY INSIGHTISPUBLISHED BELGRADE White City Christmas City White ORDER DELIVERY TO TO DELIVERY ORDER [email protected] YOUR DOOR YOUR +381 11 4030 303 303 114030 +381 Friday • June 13 • 2008 NEWS NEWS 1 9 +381 11 4030 306 114030 +381 7 7 1 ISSN 1820-8339 8 2 0 8 3 Page 8 in2016? nice or Naughty Vučić: 3 0 0 0 0 1 Issue No. No. Issue [email protected] Issue No. 1 / Friday, June 13, 2008 EDITOR’S WORD 197 Lure of Tadic Alliance Splits Socialists Political Predictability 21,2016 January 23-Thursday, December Wednesday, While younger Socialists support joining a new, pro-EU government, old By Mark R. Pullen Milosevic loyalists threaten revolt over the prospect. party over which way to turn. “The situation in the party seems Page 10 guide survival Year’s New extremely complicated, as we try to convince the few remaining lag- gards that we need to move out of Milosevic’s shadow,” one Socialist Party official complained. “Dacic will eventually side with Many of us who have experi- Tadic in a bid to guide his party into enced numerous Serbian elections the European mainstream, but much rate ourselves as pundits when it of the membership and many offi- comes to predicting election re- cials may oppose that move.” sults and post-election moves. Nikolic agreed: “The question is We feel in-the-know because will the party split or will the ‘old- our experience of elections in Ser- timers’ back down,” he noted. bia has shown us that (a.) no single Fearing they might not cross the party or coalition will ever gain the 5-per-cent threshold to enter parlia- majority required to form a govern- page 11 wishes Year’s New Belgraders’ ment, the Socialists teamed up with ment, and (b.) political negotiations the Association of Pensioners and the will never be quickly concluded. United Serbia Party, led by business- Even when the Democrats man Dragan Markovic “Palma”. achieved their surprising result at Pensioners leader, Jovan Krkoba- last month’s general election, it bic, Palma and Dacic are all pushing quickly became clear that the re- for a deal with the Democrats. sult was actually more-or-less the Socialist leader Ivica Dacic remains the Serbian kingmaker The reported price is the post of same as every other election result deputy PM, with a brief in charge of in Serbia, i.e. inconclusive. By Rade Maroevic in Belgrade to Serbia’s late president, Slobodan faces extinction unless it changes. security for the Socialist leader. This is likely to continue as long Milosevic, and reformists who want However, a strong current also In addition, the Socialists are bar- as Serbia’s politicians form new ense negotiations on a new gov- the party to become a modern Euro- flows in the opposite direction, led gaining for other ministries, includ- political parties every time they ernment have divided the ranks pean social democrat organisation. by party veterans enraged by the ing capital investments, Kosovo and disagree with their current party Tof the Socialist Party, which holds After eight years of stagnation, prospect of a deal with Tadic. education, Belgrade media reported. leader (there are currently 342 reg- Page 14 a suitcase Serbia in the balance of power between the the Socialists returned to centre stage Mihajlo Markovic, a founder of Tadic has denied talk of horse- istered political parties in Serbia). main blocs and has yet to announce after winning 20 of the 250 seats in the party, recently warned of a crisis trading with the Socialists, maintain- Drawn-out negotiations are also which side they will support. parliament in the May 11 elections. if Dacic opts for the pro-European ing that ministries would go only to the norm. One Belgrade-based “It looks as if the Socialists will With the pro-European and nation- bloc, abandoning the Socialists’ “nat- those committed to working for the Ambassador recently told me he move towards a government led by alist blocs almost evenly matched, ural” ideological partners. government’s “strategic goal”. was also alarmed by the distinct the Democrats,” political analyst Mi- the Socialists now have the final say Markovic, a prominent supporter At the same time, Dacic seems re- lack of urgency among Serbian lan Nikolic, of the independent Cen- on the fate of the country. of Milosevic during the 1990s, is luctant to call off negotiations with politicians. “The country is at a tre of Policy Studies, said. “But such Nikolic believes the Socialists, led seen as representative of the “old- the nationalists. standstill and I don’t understand a move might provoke deeper divi- by Ivica Dacic, will come over to timers” in the party who want to stay “If we don’t reach an agreement their logic. If they are so eager to sions and even split the party.” Tadic, if only out of a pragmatic de- true to the former regime’s policies, with the DSS and Radicals, the par- progress towards the EU and en- Simultaneous negotiations held sire to ensure their political survival. even though these almost ruined the ty leadership will decide on future courage investors, how come they with the pro-European and national- “The group of younger Socialists Socialists for good. steps”, Dacic announced, following go home at 5pm sharp and don’t ist blocs have drawn attention to a gathered around Dacic seems to be Some younger Socialist officials the first session of country’s new par- work weekends?” deep rift inside the Socialists. in the majority”, Nikolic said, adding have voiced frustration over the con- liament on Wednesday. Surely the situation is urgent This divides “old-timers” loyal that these reformists believe the party tinuing impasse within their own Source: Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) enough to warrant a little overtime. THIS ISSUE OF Business Insight Neighbourhood Matters Belgrade Insight IS SUPPORTED BY: Costs Mounting Football Rebellion conomists are warning that pro- hile the football world watch- longed uncertainty over Serbia’s es events unfold at the Euro- Efuture could scare off investors, lead Wpean Championships in Austria and to higher inflation and jeopardise Switzerland, Bosnia is experiencing prosperity for years to come. a soccer rebellion, led by fans, play- “This year has been lost, from the ers and former stars who are enraged standpoint of economic policy,” says by what they see as corrupt leaders Stojan Stamenkovic of the Econom- of the country’s football association ics Institute in Belgrade. leaders. page 5 page 10 2 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Wednesday, December 23 - Thursday, January 21, 2016 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Wednesday, December 23 - Thursday, January 21, 2016 3 YEAR IN REVIEW YEAR IN REVIEW MARCH 18th JULY 11th marched through the Serbian capital Serbia arrests eight for Srebrenica 20th anniversary after riot police shut down the city centre Srebrenica massacre marked with tears and anger to ensure security and senior officials A year on Serbia detained eight former Bosnian Tens of thousands of people mourned warned that violence would not be Serbia: Closer to EU dreams Serb policemen accused of involvement at a commemoration ceremony in Sre- tolerated. in the mass killings of Bosniaks from brenica for the victims of the July 1995 nd Srebrenica in July 1995. massacres, but some targeted their anger SEPTEMBER 22 at the Serbian prime minister. Serbian protesters say waterfront the move th Serbia’s 2015 APRIL 16 contract flawed Freed Croatian Serb leader Hadzic JULY 29th Protest group 'Let's not Drown Belgrade' arrives in Serbia highlights ISIS poses threat says the contract for the Belgrade Water- From anniversaries and arrests to War crimes defendant Goran Hadžić to Balkans, Ministers say front project shows Serbia is surrender- arrived in the Serbian capital after being include keeping The interior ministers of Montenegro, ing its sovereignty with no guarantees media freedom, Belgrade Insight looks temporarily released by the UN court in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia said from the Gulf investors. The Hague for cancer treatment. Russia close, back at the stories that dominated the that ISIS was a real threat which could th news in 2015. APRIL 28th be fought only by cooperation between NOVEMBER 9 opening the first New BIRN war crimes film regional security services. Kosovo’s UNESCO premieres in Belgrade membership bid fails th EU chapters and BIRN's latest feature-length documen- AUGUST 20 Kosovo’s application to join the UN tary, which investigates the commanders Serbia PM dangles prospect cultural body did not attract enough th Prime Minister JANUARY 5 FEBRUARY 9th responsible for some of the most brutal of early elections votes from UNESCO member states, Serbia seizes Marilyn Monroe purse Kosovo and Serbia resume attacks of the Kosovo war, was screened Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar amid strong opposition from Serbia and Aleksandar Serbian authorities seized a purse that EU-backed talks for the first time in Belgrade. Vučić on Wednesday announced pos- its allies. belonged to the Hollywood star from Top officials from Serbia and Kosovo are sible early elections - though some critics th Vučić’s battles crime suspects. meeting in Brussels as the dialogue on MAY 14 say polls would be frivolous when the DECEMBER 3rd normalising relations between Belgrade Serbia rehabilitates WWII chetnik government has a stable majority. Serbia welcomes freed th against the JANUARY 26 and Pristina resumes after ten months of leader Mihailovic Yugoslav army war criminal A Belgrade court rehabilitated Chetnik th Serbian PM slams BIRN again standstill. AUGUST 26 Former Yugoslav Army official Vladimir Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar leader Dragoljub ‘Draža’ Mihailović, who independent Serbia and Kosovo reach Lazarević, released early after serving Vučić again accused the Balkan Inves- th was executed for high treason and Nazi col- FEBRUARY 20 four key agreements his sentence for Kosovo war crimes, was tigative Reporting Network of lying to laboration in 1946, after hearings that high- Serbian and Kosovo officials on Tuesday media.