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Helsinki Charter No. 157-158

November - December 2011

 

Editorial

SERBIA WITHOUT A CANDIDACY: STICKING TO LONGTIME GOALS

By Sonja Biserko

Serbia's political class seemed not distressed at all by the postponed EU candidacy: they behaved as if they had been looking forward to it in the first place. Encouraged by the global crisis, especially the one in Europe, Serb national strategists thought the time was ripe for their plans for Bosnia - and in this regard the denied candidacy made no difference. Analysts of all sorts promptly stepped up to convince the public that a candidacy status would have been no...   More >>>

 

Ante Markovic is Gone

PREMIER OF THE LAST HOPE

By Dimitrije Boarov

Unusually at first glance but the news that Ante Markovic, the last premier of the SFRY who had resigned on December 20, 1991 incapable of preventing an upcoming war found the strongest echo in Serbia. Such large publicity given to reminiscences of "Ante's era" two decades after his resignation - no matter how popular that Yugoslav Premier had been and how successful businessman before - was not exactly something one would have logically expected in Serbia. But a...   More >>>

 

Transitional Justice

PATRIOTIC TEARS AND CALCULATIONS

By Slobodanka Ast

What one finds today at the location now called Staro Sajmiste is the biggest disco club in the Balkans and in Jajinci people are barbecuing, playing football.Two big concentration camps in WWII justify historian Nikola Samardzic thesis that no where else are fighters against fascism and its victims so much humiliated and insulted, and monuments to anti-fascists smashed so barbarously and revengefully. This second killing of victims and vandalism of...    More >>>

 

Serbia Left without EU Candidacy

THE LAST EPISODE IN A BLUFFING POLICY

By Ivan Torov

Once again Serbia's political elites have not let down the tradition of generating deeper and deeper crises to camouflage their ability to solve problems. Faced with the fact that its Kosovo policy suffered another and probably final defeat in December 2011 they resorted to time-tested methods: they faced us in turn with the Hamletian dilemma - as a leading mastermind among them, Ivica Dacic, put it - so as to postpone for a while (till March 2012) to...   More >>>

 

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