Issue No. 189 Friday, July 24 - Thursday, September 10, 2015 ORDER DELIVERY TO Serbian Serbia's tourist Music YOUR DOOR +381 11 4030 303 musician Mecca keeps keeps teen [email protected] - - - - - - - ISSN 1820-8339 1 takes peace dark side refugee in BELGRADE INSIGHT IS PUBLISHED BY 0 1 message to hidden high spirits Srebrenica Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 9 7 7 1 8 2 0 8 3 3 0 0 0 Bosnia’s Even when the Democrats longas continue to likely is This also are negotiations Drawn-out Surely the situation is urgent Many of us who have experi We feel in-the-know because bia has shown us that (a.) no single no (a.) that us shown has bia party or coalition will ever gain the governa form to required majority negotiations political (b.) and ment, will never be quickly concluded. achieved their surprising result at last month’s general election, quickly itbecame clear that the re sult was actually more-or-less the result election other every as same in Serbia, i.e. inconclusive. as Serbia’s politicians form new political parties every time disagree with they their current party reg 342 currently are (there leader political parties in Serbia). istered the norm. One Ambassador Belgrade-based recently told me he was also alarmed by the distinct lack of urgency among politicians. Serbian “The country is standstill at and a I don’t understand their logic. If they are so eager to progress towards the EU and en theycome how investors, courage go home at 5pm sharp and don’t work weekends?” overtime. little a warrant to enough corrupt EDITOR’S WORD Predictability Political By Mark R. Pullen elections Serbian numerous enced rate ourselves as pundits when it comes to predicting election re sults and post-election moves. our experience of elections in Ser - - - - - - - - - - Bosniak fans feel - healthcareNEWS ‘scapegoated’ over comes underNEWS PM’s attack spotlight “The situation in the party seems “Dacic will eventually side with Nikolic agreed: “The question is Fearing they might not cross the Pensioners leader, Jovan Krkoba The reported price is the post of In addition, the Socialists are bar Tadic has denied talk of horse- At the same time, Dacic seems re reach an agreement “If we don’t Source: Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) Source: Football supporters party over which way to turn. extremely complicated, as we try to convince the few remaining lag gards that we need to move out of one Socialist shadow,” Milosevic’s Party official complained. in a bid to guide his party into Tadic the European mainstream, but much of the membership and many offi cials may oppose that move.” will the party split or ‘old- back down,” he noted. timers’ threshold to enter parlia 5-per-cent ment, the Socialists teamed up with Association of Pensioners and the the led by business United Serbia Party, man Dragan Markovic “Palma”. bic, Palma and Dacic are all pushing for a deal with the Democrats. of deputy PM, with a brief in charge security for the Socialist leader. gaining for other ministries, includ ing capital investments, Kosovo and education, Belgrade media reported. trading with the Socialists, maintain ing that ministries would go only to those committed to working for the “strategic goal”. government’s negotiations with luctant to call off the nationalists. with the DSS and Radicals, par ty leadership will decide on future steps”, Dacic announced, following par new country’s of session first the liament on Wednesday. - - - - in the Sandžak re- From the old - tradition of giving gion say the authori- page 10 ties are rushing to flowers to nurses blame them for the to the payment of hefty bribes to attack on the Prime hile the football world watch es events unfold at the Euro However, a strong current also However, Mihajlo Markovic, a founder of Markovic, a prominent supporter Some younger Socialist officials doctors, corruption Neighbourhood Matters faces extinction unless it changes. flows in the opposite direction, led by party veterans enraged the Tadic. prospect of a deal with recently warned of a crisis the party, if Dacic opts for the pro-European “nat bloc, abandoning the Socialists’ ural” ideological partners. of Milosevic during the 1990s, is seen as representative of the “old- timers” in the party who want to stay policies, true to the former regime’s even though these almost ruined the Socialists for good. have voiced frustration over the con tinuing impasse within their own Football Rebellion Football pean Championships in Austria and pean Championships in Switzerland, Bosnia is experiencing led by fans, play a soccer rebellion, enraged ers and former stars who are by what they see as corrupt leaders football association of the country’s leaders. Minister in Srebreni- W Issue No. 1 / Friday, June 13, 2008 Issue No. 1 / Friday, - - - - ca - when they were is rampant among - not even there. the medical profession in page 5 Zoran MAKSIMOVIĆ Bosnia. olitical parties, NGOs and football fan groups say claims that Sandžak fans were in- Katarina PANIĆ conomists are warning that pro over Serbia’s uncertainty longed “This year has been lost, from the volved in the attack on Prime After eight years of stagnation, the pro-European and nation With Nikolic believes the Socialists, led “The group of younger Socialists Business Insight Costs Mounting future could scare off investors, lead investors, lead future could scare off to higher inflation and jeopardise prosperity for years to come. says standpoint of economic policy,” Econom the of Stamenkovic Stojan ics Institute in Belgrade. to Serbia’s late president, Slobodan to Serbia’s Milosevic, and reformists who want the party to become a modern Euro pean social democrat organisation. the Socialists returned to centre stage after winning 20 of the 250 seats in elections. parliament in the May 11 alist blocs almost evenly matched, the Socialists now have the final say on the fate of country. by Ivica Dacic, will come over to if only out of a pragmatic de Tadic, sire to ensure their political survival. gathered around Dacic seems to be adding said, Nikolic majority”, the in that these reformists believe the party Minister Aleksandar Vučić olice in Republika Srp- E - - - - in Potočari, while he was ska, the Serb-dominated - Pattending the commemoration of the Sre- entity in Bosnia, arrested brenica massacre, are unfounded, and they the head nurse in Ban- are being turned into scapegoats. jaluka’s main hospital Friday • June 13 2008 Vučić was attacked as he passed early this month on sus- through the crowd of mourners who Ppicion of corruption. threw stones and water bottles at him be- She later pleaded guilty to taking a fore he was hustled away by security offic- bribe of €2,500 in exchange for getting ers. He then fled the commemoration. The THIS ISSUE OF someone a job in her hospital. Belgrade Insight Serbian Foreign Minister, Ivica Dačić, later BY: IS SUPPORTED Although only a small incident, it ech- on a new gov ense negotiations ernment have divided the ranks called it “attempted murder”. “It looks as if the Socialists will Simultaneous negotiations held This divides “old-timers” loyal Socialist leader Ivica Dacic remains the Serbian kingmaker Socialist leader Ivica Dacic remains Lure of Tadic Alliance Splits Socialists Tadic Lure of government, old pro-EU While younger Socialists support joining a new, over the prospect. revolt Milosevic loyalists threaten in Belgrade By Rade Maroevic oed loudly in the media and among the which holds of the Socialist Party, the balance of power between the blocs and has yet to announce main which side they will support. move towards a government led by the Democrats,” political analyst Mi lan Nikolic, of the independent Cen tre of Policy Studies, said. “But such a move might provoke deeper divi sions and even split the party.” with the pro-European and national ist blocs have drawn attention to a deep rift inside the Socialists. T public, fuelling a growing concern that Continued on page 3 The attack on Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić during the commemoration in Srebrenica. Photo by Beta/AP the healthcare sector in Bosnia is one of the most corrupt systems in the country. “Recent research in the east of the country showed that people see health- Austerity chokes care as the most corrupt sector in the country,” Anica Ramić, of Account, a network of anti-corruption NGOs in Serbia’s chances of recovery Bosnia, said. She said the same research showed Without more investment and a better business MIXED VIEWS OF lion instead of planned revenue of €191 that after healthcare, people see the FISCAL RESULTS million. courts and judiciary as the second climate, austerity measures will not turn around But this was largely down to factors most corrupt sector. Serbia’s total public debt has grown that will not be repeated until the end of Many local and international experts Serbia’s economy, experts say. continuously from 2008, from 36 to 75 the year, according to the Fiscal Council believe that the two are interlinked: a per cent of GDP in 2015. report. corrupt judiciary prevents action from Saša DRAGOJLO But while experts admit that auster- The latest report by the country’s Fis- In the first three months of 2015, being taken against corruption in other ity measures - which the government cal Council says the first quarter of 2015 almost the entire planned annual sectors, like in healthcare. leksandar Vučić, started putting into effect in 2014 - have ended with better financial results than amount of dividends from public enter- Ramić said that corruption assumes the Serbian Prime improved the fiscal situation, they say originally planned but the causes are prises was paid into the budget, worth a variety of forms in Bosnia’s health- Minister, recently they have not stimulated the economy not seen as entirely positive.