Serbia is in transition. It shook off the authoritarian regime of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, often referred to as the “Butcher of the Balkans”, and is now working towards EU membership. With a youth unemployment rate of around 50 per cent, a highly politicized media environment and problems with its human rights record, being eligible for membership will probably take a long while. Switching from a state controlled economy to free market capitalism has proven to be difficult with the country’s four biggest employers still being state-owned. The crisis has hit the country hard, laying bare the problems that lay ahead for the young generation.
The war between Croatia and Serbia may be over but in border town Vukovar, which was one of the most destroyed places, a new generation inherits the stories of the war-generation before them due to heavy separation. Coen van de Ven
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Shoreditch in London, Nørrebro in Copenhagen and Kreuzberg in Berlin: all of Europe’s great capitals have their own creative hotspots. Now it’s Belgrade’s turn. Jack Cairns
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Esben Pejstrup-Pedersen
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Serbia as the prey of three different ideologies can be seen as the main message in the latest work of Belgrade artist Aleksandar Todorovic, who expresses through his incredibly detailed paintings the pessimistic scenarios for Serbian youngsters. Coen van de Ven
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Euroviews reporter Jiri Haanen was denied access to Serbia by the authorities and spends his time awaiting deportation. Get a personal insight into his adventures in the twilight zone of Nikola Tesla airport. On the evening of March 25, team member Tomas van der Heijden and I flew from the Swedish city Mälmo to the Serbian capital Belgrade. In my pocket I felt my wallet pressing against my thigh, bearing that one important document I…
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An incomplete Team Serbia made it to Belgrade on the 25th of March, and slowly, but steadily started their work in the former Yugoslav Country. The team’s trip to Serbia, the only non-EU country on the Euroviews website, was hard on two of the three Dutch speaking members. While Coen Van De Ven spent two hours in Frankfurt Airport getting to his passport (trapped in his suitcase in the hold of an Airbus A320), Jiri…
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