Issue 489 - May 15, 1995

The announcement of changes and additions to Criminal Law of Serbia has spawned discussions and confusion among legal specialist from all branches of Yugoslav law. In short, arguments are being passed between pragmatist and theoreticians: the ones don’t want to let anyone who’s guilty get away; the others want to protect the public interest in a better way by bending the rules slightly. However, both parties have practical, political motives

The strength of a grand gesture in economy musn’t be underestimated, since in this field a single bold move can cause “interference” of a million individual decisions

According to the official data, there are about seven hundred active radio and TV stations in Serbia, although there are also those who claim that their actual number is not known, and that there must be over a thousand ‘media houses’. The difference became much more overt after October 5th, when some frequencies became ‘freed’ from the previous state pressure, in order to get hold of the best possible starting positions on June 1st – the date when the Federal Ministry of Telecommunications should announce a public tender for the distribution of frequencies, as Minister Boris Tadic has already asserted.

After the April price growth of 8.2%, it has become clear that the matter doesn't concern a creeping inflation which is spreading slowly but surely, but that we have suddenly entered a phase of chronic inflation again, one which could easily get out of control and turn into a devastating hyperinflation once again