European Union - Agreement on key functions 03.September 2014 Enzo Mangini A brave choice for the Prime Minister of Italy At the summit in Milan on August 30, European Union leaders nominated Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to succeed Herman van Rompuy at the head of the European Council, while the position of European High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, British Catherine Ashton, will be succeeded by Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini. It's a bold move by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi: Mogherini has the analytical knowledge, but no operational experience to lead an institution of 3400 employees and an annual budget of 800 million euros, let alone try to create something that could be called a recognizable EU foreign policy.
Ebola - From virus to epidemic 03.September 2014 Zoran Cirjaković A disease that Africans do not believe in Some Africans believe that the Ebola virus is a fabrication used for political bribery or to cover up the trade in organs, others that the disease was caused by a white man who again used blacks as guinea pigs, while still others link Ebola to "juju", black magic. , with which the witch doctor "caused the snake to bite the whole family". In addition to the mass distrust of the population, the fight against Ebola is only possible if local beliefs and customs in Black Africa are respected, especially in relation to the "treatment of the dead" and burials: Ebola is most easily transmitted by touching the body of the deceased who succumbed to the disease. Unfortunately, it took some time for white doctors to realize that they needed the help of anthropologists in order to help the local population.
Croatian crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina 15.march 2001 Radenko Udovicic Knock on knock The High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petrič, made the harshest political decision so far in his mandate. He dismissed all the leading people of the Croatian Democratic Union from political and state positions
Our reporter in Moscow 15.march 2001 Dusan Reljic ... and Lenin will be alive Moscow is like a magnet for me: it repels and attracts at the same time. The attraction is the people, many of them intelligent, talkative, interested, then museums, squares and brightly lit historical buildings at night
The relentless Taliban 15.march 2001 Duska Anastasijevic Religious proletarians against the Buddha The problem with Afghanistan is that there is no mechanism of world diplomacy that could reach the Taliban leaders who within five years managed to bring under their control a whopping 90 percent of the territory of Afghanistan.
European scourge and Yugoslavia 23.march 2001 Tamara Skrozza Farmers and cosmetics The new epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has caused a new wave of paranoia in Europe when it comes to livestock diseases. Our official authorities have raised "security measures to a higher level", and the public is more or less uninterested
Calming the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina 23.march 2001 Radenko Udovicic Divorce with retention Croatian political leaders, in addition to encountering the unwavering stance of the international community, also faced difficulties within their own – Croatian – territories.
Comment A student movement between paranoia and hope If the student movement is more concerned with "security assessments" than a real election campaign, it will lose what adorned it at the beginning and what shook progressive Serbia - the feeling of hope that exists and is real Slobodan Georgijev
Comment Svetozar Cvetković is both against black and against white Our great actor Svetozar Cvetković said in an interview for "Vreme" what is not said in our bazaar - that it is better to have Bitef, Fest and other festivals than not to have them. Many people will not like that because they are guided by the logic of "the worse the better" Nemanja Rujevic
Comment Desnica and Vučić: Caliph instead of Caliph Right-wing parties cannot support the student movement, despite the Kosovo students' pledge and all that iconography according to the principle "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia". Because the right-wing understanding of the world is particular, and the students firmly stand on the universality of the republican soil Ivan Milenkovic
