Issue 495 - June 15, 2001

Stanley Fisher, Deputy Director of the IMF Executive Board of Directors stated that “the FRY Government has willingly and with impressive speed taken on the extremely difficult task of reconstructing its ravaged country.” Despite obstruction and delays through parliamentary procedure, certain key laws on privatization and excise funds have been passed in the Serbian Parliament. Are our reformists better rated abroad than at home…

If Djindjic’s ambition does not come true, if this Government fails, corruption will expand to the immeasurable limits and will destroy all social functions of the state

The Government of Serbia should ‘clean up’ the room after an unpleasant affair and also bring in a foreign producer of higher quality cigarettes – because, Prime Minister Djindjic is absolutely right about that: it is one of the ways to set up order in a budgetarily attractive cigarette traffic