After the regime change in October 2000, the transformation and modernization of the Serbian economy and economic policy began with the support of the EU, IMF and other international institutions. Economic legislation was modernized, and foreign trade and the money and foreign exchange markets were liberalized. Administrative prices and wages have been abolished. Most of…
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Serbia: International Assistance and Foreign Investments
Economic policy Serbia’s economic policy, especially since the term of office of the pro-European government coalition that ruled from 2008 to 2012, has been shaped by an economically liberal course and the setting of the course for the corresponding transformation and modernization of economic policy and its institutions and instruments. A modern, transparent housekeeping system…
Serbia Foreign Policy and EU integration
Relationship to the West Serbia’s relationship with Germany is a special one. Since 2000, German policy towards the Western Balkans has been strongly fixated on Serbia. This has its origins in the fact that Germany took part in the Kosovo war against Serbia, which was contested domestically, and in Germany’s active support for the DOS…
Serbia Relationship with Montenegro and Albania
The bilateral relationship between Serbia and the neighboring state of Montenegro has traditionally not been free since its separation from the joint confederation in 2006 amid internal tensions in the small Western Balkan country, in which a minority, which makes up almost half of the population, does not identify as Serbia as a Montenegrin and…
Serbia and Kosovo Part V
The negotiation process has been suspended since November 2018 and the tariffs remain in force. With a mini Western Balkan summit organized by German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron in Berlin on April 29, 2019, the Franco-German attempt to restart the stalled negotiations failed. At the same time, however, the revitalized collaboration between Paris…
Lisbon and Portugal
Lisbon, or Lisboa in Portuguese, is the capital of Portugal with about 3 million inhabitants throughout the region. This city has now become a nest for many Swedes who settled there during part of the year. And given the warm climate and the cool breeze from the Atlantic, this is more than understandable. The city…
Serbia and Kosovo Part IV
Beginning of the “new phase” in dialogue In July and August 2017, under the chairmanship of the EU Foreign Affairs Representative Frederica Mogherini, Aleksandar Vučić and Hashim Thači met for the first time in their new functions as Presidents of Serbia and Kosovo as part of the dialogue. After the July meeting, both sides announced…
Serbia and Kosovo Part III
At the meeting of the EU Council on June 28, 2013, the heads of state and government decided to start accession negotiations with Serbia. The full implementation of the agreement from April 19 to the end of 2013 was made a condition of the opening of the accession talks. At its December 2013 meeting, the…
Serbia and Kosovo Part II
Half a year before the next parliamentary elections, the Serbian government was thrown back on the rubble of its policy and the need to undertake a fundamental political reorientation in the short term towards EU integration, which there is no alternative, and to secure the support of a population for the next elections which it…
Serbia and Kosovo Part I
On December 9th, 2011, the Council of the EU made the positive decision regarding candidate status for Serbia postponed to spring 2012 due to the unrest in the Serbian-populated north of Kosovo. Kosovo has thus moved back into the center of Serbia’s domestic and foreign policy after years. Kosovo was the starting and ending point…