Publication details
Aktuální problémy srbské společnosti
| Title in English | Contemporary problems of serbian society |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The author of the contribution suggests that during the period following the assassination of the reform-minded prime minister Zoran Djindjić (2003) regressive phenomena occur in the Serbian political and social life. The next part of the article deals with the Kosovo Question: According to the Serbian government, the status of Kosovo should be guided by more than autonomy, less than state premise. The Serbian negotiation team had not manage to specify the concept of maximum autonomy for Kosovo until November 2007. However, this frame based on the autonomy of Aland Islands in Finland came too late. The Serbian distrust towards promises of the future democratic Kosovo has a real basis: The degree of hatred and distrust among the individual ethnic groups remains on the level of the year 1999. Questions like what to do with Kosovo, how does it fit to the contemporary Europe, what interaction should there exist between Kosovo and Serbia, how to persuade ethnic Albanians to give up violence, how to secure peaceful co-existence of all ethnic groups, whose relationships are burdened with an uneasy historical legacy and ethnic stereotypes or how to secure the return and adequate life of refugees, remain unanswered. The concluding part of the study highlights the fact that a great influence of forces belonging to the past is caused by the small support of the international community. |