Headlines: elections in Serbia, is there an alternative to the Vučić system?
Supporters of Aleksandar Vučić, the presidential candidate of the ruling SNS (Serbian Progressive Party), attend a rally in Belgrade, Serbia, March 31, 2022. REUTERS - ZORANA JEVTIC
Text by: Marion Roussey |
Philippe Bertinchamps
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A press review presented in partnership with
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On April 3, Serbian voters are called to the polls to elect their president, the deputies of the National Assembly and certain municipal teams.
Nearly 40,000 voters from abroad will take part in the ballot.
A record according to the Electoral Commission in Belgrade.
Their number is highest
in Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
In recent weeks, Aleksandar Vučić has campaigned there while requests for Serbian nationality have exploded.
Faced with the powerful party of the Serbian president, the opposition parties are struggling to present concrete and coherent proposals, particularly on social issues.
A newcomer to the political scene, the green left coalition Moramo is raising
the hopes of many voters
, with a program that breaks completely with the current social and economic system.
For their part, the Serbs of Kosovo will have to go to the south of Serbia to vote.
The decision of the government in Pristina provoked
strong reactions in Belgrade
, while the dialogue under the auspices of the European Union is at a standstill.
New revelations about the murder of Oliver Ivanović
New
revelations
from the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) bring new elements to the case of the murder of Oliver Ivanović in Kosovo.
The sponsor of the murder of the major figure of the Serbian opposition, assassinated in North Mitrovica in January 2018, would be Zvonko Veselinović, a businessman close to power in Belgrade.
Ukrainian refugees in the crosshairs of traffickers
?
Millions of Ukrainians, mostly women and children, have left their country to flee the war.
Physically and psychologically vulnerable, they represent easy prey for human trafficking networks,
particularly in Romania
.
NGOs and the European Commission are sounding the alarm.
Ukrainian refugees may soon find themselves
short of money
.
Only Romania and Moldova still agree to exchange hryvnias for euros or local currencies.
In the other Balkan countries where thousands of Ukrainians have taken to the road, the situation is more complicated and these refugees risk soon finding themselves short of cash.
Across the Balkans, the outpouring of solidarity with refugees
continues
.
In Serbia, Russians, who have been living in the country for a few years, welcome women and children in transit.
In Bulgaria, some 100,000 Ukrainians have found refuge.
Most have Bulgarian roots.
Their ancestors had fled the Ottoman Empire to take refuge in Bessarabia, an ancient region shared between Moldavia and Ukraine.
Today, they find
welcome asylum
in their original homeland.
Energy poverty: the solutions exist, the political will does not follow
Hardly arrived, spring marked the
return of the first fires of the year
.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, firefighters tried to put out fires for several days.
Like last year, their work is hampered by the presence of landmines and institutional blockages.
Milorad Dodik, member of the country's tripartite presidency, refuses to send the helicopters of the armed forces.
In Croatia, the island of Krk could be one of the rare positive examples of the development of renewable energies produced and shared by citizens.
But as electricity and gas prices rise across Europe,
controversial new laws
passed by the Croatian parliament make it impossible to share these energies.
Associations are stepping up.
How to teach the history of the Balkans to the children of the diaspora?
This is the question that
a teacher from Vaud is trying to answer
.
In Switzerland, the school does not offer any teaching in the history of the Balkans, whereas young people from families originating from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo or Serbia attend the same classes.
To remedy this, Jérôme Moix launched a pioneering experiment.
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