Monday, May 25, 2009

Western Balkans


On the economic front, there may now be grounds for modest hope. The global economic crisis has hit the Balkans hard. But Jurij Bajec, an economic adviser to the Serbian prime minister, says that several indicators in the past few weeks are making him a little less worried than he was two months ago. A healthy Serbian economy is vital for the whole region, but especially for Bosnia and Macedonia./Vardarska/

Belgrade has just held a festival of Sarajevo theatre, music and films. The Bosnians were greeted by emotional and rapturous audiences. Belgrade is plastered with billboards inviting Serbs to holiday in Croatia and Montenegro. One European diplomat says he hopes that the Biden visit means that Clinton-era officials will update their ideas of the region, which often remain stuck in the war years and tend as a result to be anti-Serb. The Biden visit is an opportunity for America and the EU to push the western Balkans forward together. If they are up to it. /Read Balkan Federation/

5 comments:

  1. Jeli to znaci da mozemo ocekivati vise pro Srpsku politiku?

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  2. Or maybe West Balkan Federation.

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  3. Pa sta mozes ocekivati od mene nego pro srpsku politiku. Ma salim se. Nismo mi niprotiv koga a za nas smo naravno.

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  4. "Or maybe West Balkan Federation."

    You Serbs still dream of your own little Russia? First forget that, no one wants to live with you. Second, start having kids or you will lose Sanzak and the South (whatever's left anyway).

    We know that Vojvodina is "European" and the Serbs there ignore even Serbian holidays. Viva Belgrade Pashadom

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  5. We Serbs are nice and peace loving people. There will be some more unusual solutions but we hope we won't need NATO troops to implement this solution.
    Peace and Love

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