Issue No. 181 Friday, April 03 - Thursday, April 16, 2015 ORDER DELIVERY TO Ties of wood Traces of Nazi Tango fever YOUR DOOR +381 11 4030 303 become occupation strikes [email protected] - - - - - - - ISSN 1820-8339 1 golden linger in Belgrade BELGRADE INSIGHT IS PUBLISHED BY 0 1 opportunity Belgrad once again Page 5 Page 9 Page 10 9 7 7 1 8 2 0 8 3 3 0 0 0 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 Import 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 - - - - - - - - - - Serbia feels the heat flood - over Šešelj extradition leavesNEWS Pressure on the Serbia’sNEWS government to farmers “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: send the war 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. - - - - crimes suspect reeling - back to The Hague is likely to prove Serbian agriculture page 10 insurmountable in fears it cannot the end. compete with the hile the football world watch es events unfold at the Euro Gordana ANDRIĆ cut-price imported a strong current also However, Mihajlo Markovic, a founder of Markovic, a prominent supporter Some younger Socialist officials 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. W ikola Selaković, the June 13, 2008 Issue No. 1 / Friday, - - - - food products - Serbian justice min- ister, said the govern- flowing in from the ment has yet to dis- cuss whether to send European Union page 5 Vojislav Šešelj, leader Nof Serbian Radical Party and a war- and undercutting it. crimes suspect, back to the The Hague in response to its demand. “We still haven’t received anything Stevan VELJOVIĆ conomists are warning that pro over Serbia’s uncertainty longed “This year has been lost, from the [from the International Criminal Tribu- 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 nal for the Former Yugoslavia]. When erbian milk and meat pro- E - - - - we receive the decision, we will decide ducers are up in arms, pro- - how to act on it,” Selaković told report- testing that lower prices and ers on April 2nd. increased imports are wreck- Experts say that it is unlikely that the ing Serbia’s all-important Friday • June 13 2008 government will refuse to send Šešelj food production industry. back to the International Criminal Tri- SSeveral farming organisations in Vo- bunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, jvodina and western Serbia staged trac- as this would impede the EU candidate tor protests and caused roadblocks in THIS ISSUE OF country’s progress towards membership. mid-March, saying a flood of cheap im- Belgrade Insight IS SUPPORTED BY: IS SUPPORTED ports from the EU had made it impos- on a new gov ense negotiations ernment have divided the ranks “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 sible for them to sell their own produce. 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. Continued on page 3 Šešelj repeatedly stated he has no intention of returning to The Hague. Photo by Darko Vojinović/AP T Farmers’ associations want the gov- ernment to intervene by purchasing COMMENT meat, milk and fattened pigs from do- mestic producers. They also want a ban on further im- ports of dairy, meat and livestock, as The philharmonic is well as amended regulations on the cir- culation of livestock and meat. “Only with these three measures combined do we a have a chance to sus- not afraid of controversy tain domestic production - otherwise it The orchestra’s latest campaign, featuring the spite of everyone and despite every- and reactivate those who feel they be- will collapse,” Zlatan Đurić, president of thing”, “Thank you for not coming” and long to this type of elite but who have the Union of Farmers of Sremska Mitro- symbolic leek, may have drawn a sharp reaction “Do we understand each other?”, the been excluded or who have excluded vica, told BIRN. - but it sees asking important questions about Philharmonic has announced the up- themselves from cultural and social life. The government has promised coming season under the slogan “Sim- The preliminary design of the visu- that the Directorate for Commodity society as part of its role. ply Not for Everyone”. als for the new season also includes the Reserves will purchase fattened pigs, Clearly, this is a reaction to the up- image of a leek. For those who are not which will be followed by buying up Jelena MILAŠINOVIĆ A distinctive image, as well as its crea- surge of populism in all segments of so- aware of the local, colloquial imagery, milk powder, in order to stabilise the tive and often provocative marketing, ciety as well as a message to the elite to the leek in Serbia is a symbol of preten- market temporarily by eliminating sur- hen any cultural in- have led to the orchestra being recog- re-examine its social function and role.