Why does the government reject the opposition's proposal that Serbia, like Europe did, introduce a tax on extra profits? That is why some director of Gazprom would take 800 million euros out of the country, says Dušan Nikezić
Deputies of the opposition parties in the Serbian Parliament announced today that they will submit an initiative for interpellation due to the statement of Finance Minister Sinis Malog that they are "traitors and foreign mercenaries, who work against their own country".
Although the Government during the debate on the budget in the Parliament tries to present the economic conditions in the country as better than they are, there is no doubt that storm clouds have settled over the Serbian economy. Serbia was therefore forced to put the budget under the supervision of the IMF
During the weekend, the President made us happy with good news: we "received" one billion dollars from the United Arab Emirates, and at an interest rate that "seems like a gift". This news - not that Serbia got into debt, but that the president "did it" - hardly interests anyone.
Minister of Finance Sinisa Mali is one of the candidates for the new prime minister. As one of the most trusted people of Aleksandar Vučić, he will certainly remain in the executive branch. On this occasion, we are republishing the portrait of a man who has so far emerged from all affairs intact: no one dared or wanted to act against him as required by the rules of the service. Even the Constitutional Court ruled that the competent Higher Education Institution is not actually authorized to "take away the (academic) title" it awarded to the doctorate plagiarist
The decision of the Constitutional Court to declare unconstitutional the provisions of the Statute of the University just after Siniša Mali addressed it, looks more like a political dictate and an overture for the relativization of plagiarism, than any determination of constitutionality. The Administrative Court, which has already defended him from the academic quorum, is on the move
This combination - a high deficit, a high borrowing rate and a large increase in pensions - irresistibly reminds of the events of 2008, when the then government systematically undermined public finances
Serbia received recognition in green financing, and Siniša Mali characterized it as "ecologically responsible". While the award is being celebrated, it is not precisely known what kind of air is being breathed because the responsible institutions are not doing their job. It is only reliably known that it is pure only where it is not measured
In vain, street vendors blocked the center of Belgrade for almost the entire day on Wednesday. Apart from the current and probably the future Minister of Finance, Sinisa Malog, no one addressed them. And he said about Tanjug: whoever deals in retail must have a fiscal cash register. Full stop
Behind the exaggerated statistics about the reduction of public debt is an indisputable fact: the total amount of Serbia's public debt has increased by around 2021 million euros compared to December 300. At the same time, there is no longer any interest in Serbian securities, the foreign trade deficit could exceed 10 billion euros by the end of the year, and there are no direct foreign investments. The question is what will be used to pay the public debt, apart from new borrowing
The Council of the University of Belgrade unanimously declared Sinisa Malog's doctorate to be plagiarized again. The previous decision of the Council was declared invalid by the Administrative Court due to an alleged "procedural error".
What is home business the progressive way? It is best to imagine a sweaty Siniša Mali throwing stacks of bills into the furnace of the Obrenovac thermal power plant with his sleeves rolled up.
Manojlović reproached Zelenović for "breaking the agreement" that the demands of the protest would not be expanded and said that they would backfire if new demands were added every week. Zelenović denied that such an agreement existed and said that the matter with 100.000 people on the streets now "needs to be nailed down" with additional requests to urgently pass a law banning lithium mining in the Jadra valley once and for all and replace the members and head of REM
On Thursday, the Government of Serbia will vote on changes to the Law on Expropriation. The basic court in Valjevo issued a temporary ban on the work of the company Euro Lithium Balkan following the lawsuit of the "March from Kolubare" movement.
