Month: July 2015

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Serbia’s Pyrrhic Veto

 

Original posting by Jasmin Mujanovic on Balkanist. In attempting to re-write the historical record on Srebrenica, argues Jasmin Mujanović, the Serb nationalist establishment has only succeeded in once again shooting itself in the foot.

In the days and weeks leading up to the UN Security Council’s vote on the United Kingdom’s Srebrenica resolution, Serb leaders in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina both spoke in threatening tones. They insisted on amorphous but sinister “consequences” should the Council pass the resolution, and of a possibly mortal blow to peace and reconciliation in the region as a whole.

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Open Letter to anti-Greek Eastern European bloc

Source: Sigmalive.Com

Dr.Zoltan Pogatsa believes that the Eurozone states of the former Eastern bloc have been duped by the major powers into firmly opposing Greece. They are being led to believe that Athens is damaging to their economies. It’s all a deception, the Hungarian professional of political economy argues, as Eastern Eurozone members money never actually went to Greece, but to Brussels, in order to support the euro.

Dear Slovaks, Lithuanians,  Latvians,  Slovenians,

I am certain you have been following the Greek drama unfolding in recent days, weeks and months. 

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Greece inspires us, but it cannot save us

source: IBTimes.Com

It continues to be extremely important for people in the rest of Europe to support Greece. Not only for the sake of the Greeks, but for the sense of the future of democracy in Europe, and for the possibility of a break with neoliberalism.

Yet there’s a risk of developing the political and analytical blindness of the spectator, when you focus all your attention on the centre of action.

Because the story is told of us.

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Orban as the European Unconscious

'European Maverick' : Viktor Orban and Jean-Claude Juncker. Photo credit: Madiner.hu

This article was originally published at Oštra Nula.org.

The decision of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, to erect a four-meter-long wall along 175km of his country’s border with Serbia in order to prevent illegal immigration, prompts us to consider analytically two important factors. The first and most obvious concerns the symbolic meaning of erecting a wall. After the fall of a wall that separated eastern from western Europe, socialism from liberal capitalism, a united Europe, which again leaves outside of its borders some European states, has decided to erect a wall so as to protect itself from immigrants.

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The Balkans: the missing link the the international solidarity on the Greek referendum

The negotiations of the Greek government with the Troika have shown that our ‘shared European home’ was built over financial quicksands. Yet, by 2015 it should come as no surprise that ECB, Eurogroup, and IMF readily risk a humanitarian crisis, a rise of disease, violence, hunger, and death of thousands in Greece and Europe. Syriza’s government has made unique, colossal effort to cut a deal that saves not the banks, but poor citizens. Sadly, growing concessions and emphasis on the negotiations have happened amidst a shortage of publicly stated nationally or regionally viable economic alternatives.