Government reshuffle
Mirko Cvetković's zipped cabinet
The government is not a representative but an executive body, but in its reconstruction and reduction to 17 ministers, four vice-presidents and one prime minister, whoever is behind it is crucial
The government is not a representative but an executive body, but in its reconstruction and reduction to 17 ministers, four vice-presidents and one prime minister, whoever is behind it is crucial
There were earlier years and more difficult times in Serbia, higher inflation, more strikes and street demonstrations than at the beginning of this year 2011, but this time the general feeling of a major crisis is extremely widespread. Why? The question is difficult, but the answer is somewhat easier. This time, the ruling forces do not even have a story with which they could at least reconcile the dissatisfied people
The progressives are changing their shirts and calling for early elections. The government in the shadow of President Tadić does not show that it is worried about it. The social milieu of Serbia in 2011 is such that for the government, the most dramatic question is not how many progressives there were on the street, but how much is the silent discontent under the surface
One of the most massive strikes in education in recent years is underway. While the unions do not give in to the demand for salary increases, the position of the Government of Serbia could be described with the words: Do professors deserve more? Yes. Is the work tiring? Very much so. Is the wage increase they are fighting for achievable and "in place"? No way
Despite everything that surfaces when the results of research into the Serbian education system are taken into account, it is absolutely unjustified, even impossible to say that our young generations are stupid. What, then, is the problem and who ruined them
Vague, conspiratorial, with incomplete information, almost always for no reason in a foreign language, job advertisements give an image of a very conspicuous clumsiness in dealing with potential candidates.
The strike of a few people from Rekov - members of the so-called Liberation Serbian Army (OSA) with headquarters in Kruševac, disturbed, angered and confused the whole of Levač