Guardians of the Formula: Yugoslavia’s nuclear ambitions and its dire consequences
Dragan Bjelogrlić’s compelling film is about a little-known accident at a Yugoslav reactor and the ground-breaking response by a French medical scientist.
Dragan Bjelogrlić’s compelling film is about a little-known accident at a Yugoslav reactor and the ground-breaking response by a French medical scientist.
HBO has dropped the actor from the acclaimed series over allegations that he supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The renewed escalation of the Kosovo conflict is a direct result of the aggressive policy of the European Union, which is using the Ukraine war to reinforce its political and economic dominance over the Western Balkans. Germany is playing the leading role in this process.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has unleashed a COVID tsunami over the past month, has absurdly claimed that the decision was motivated by the need to “keep Australia safe.”
A week of protests has followed President Aleksandar Vučić’s announcement that a curfew would be re-imposed in Serbia amid a rapid resurgence of COVID-19.
The WSWS received a letter from a reader describing the social situation facing workers and the rural population in Serbia today.
The contract signed by the unions and backed by the Serbian government is designed to maintain the country as a cheap labour platform for transnational corporations like FCA.
The unions shut down the strike after it had inspired workers at other factories to engage in job action and won widespread sympathy within the Serb population.
Around 2,000 workers at Fiat-Chrysler’s Kragujevac plant in Serbia have been on strike for two weeks against starvation wages and terrible working conditions.
Aleksandar Vučić, former prime minister and leader of the right-wing nationalist Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), has won the presidential election with more than 55 percent of the vote.
The referendum went ahead despite the Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitutional Court ruling it illegal.
Refugees traveling the 4,000 kilometres between Syria and Germany, France and Sweden must endure a treacherous journey through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary.
The violence at the UEFA qualifying match happened on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Belgrade to mark the 70th anniversary of the city’s liberation from Nazi occupation in World War II.
Cuts announced by Prime Minister Vucic will see public sector salaries over €211 per month reduced by around 10 percent and those above €844 cut by 20 percent.
Official unemployment has risen to nearly 25 percent and is above 50 percent for youth while the average monthly wage remains extremely low at about €380 (US$515).
Early elections are taking place in Kosovo this Sunday, following the collapse last month of the coalition government of Prime Minister Hachim Thaci.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic told a Council of Europe ministerial meeting in Vienna that his government could not join the sanctions imposed against Russia.
In the fortnight leading up to the elections, the International Monetary Fund sent its latest mission to Serbia to drum home the precarious state of the economy.
Gerhard Schröder described Putin’s actions in Ukraine as a violation of international law, but the former German chancellor also accepted that he had been in breach of international law in Yugoslavia.
The EU has started accession negotiations with Serbia, using the membership talks as a form of blackmail to curb Russian influence.