In the new issue: Vučić in stadium fever

When "Vreme" wrote four years ago about the construction of new stadiums in Serbia and the renovation of some existing ones, it was said that the national stadium would be completed by 2023. If it was really certain and possible, Belgrade would probably be a candidate to host this year's Champions League final on the fiftieth anniversary of that famous match between Ajax and Juventus in 1973.

But the national stadium is still only an item in the budget - which is an accounting trick to increase the GDP - and there is nothing on the land in Surčin. Now the government is convincing the people that everything will be ready for the EXPO subsidiary exhibition in 2027, and they themselves know that it is more realistic - according to the dynamics of construction - that everything will be finished there in ten years. Again, this is good because Belgrade can apply for the organization of the Champions League final in 2033, if the stadium is of that size. His name could also be "Dragan Džajić".

When an article was published in "Vremen" four years ago about the announcement that it was starting to build small super modern stadiums in Serbia, the then director of the Office for Public Investments, Marko Blagojević, was available for an interview. Today, he is a minister in a ministry that bears the name of an office and is not allowed to speak to journalists who the regime has labeled as enemies of the government.

Read the full text Slobodan Georgiev in the weekly "Vreme" from Thursday (August 24)

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