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23.November 2023 NR

Goran Ješić: Fiasco of progressive agrarian policy

Serbia's agricultural budget has never been bigger, but it is being eaten up by corruption and ignorance, former provincial secretary of agriculture Goran Ješić writes in an author's text for "Vreme"

Essay: Presentation at the International Scientific Meeting "Intellectuals, Yesterday and Today", SANU

07.December 2022 Vladeta Janković

Intellectuals and political practice

I do not share the oft-repeated radical point of view according to which every intellectual, being by some definitions the "embodiment of the spirit of resistance", should be against every regime. However, I would like to say that an intellectual, according to the definition that applies to me, simply has the obligation to be against the regime embodied by politicians like Milošević, Šešelj and today Aleksandar Vučić. In people of spirit there should be an almost organic need to oppose such regimes precisely because they are fundamentally unspiritual, anti-ethical and fundamentally anti-intellectual.

Agrarian policy and shortages

07.September 2022 Radmilo Marković

Where does the milk go?

The reason for the shortage of milk is the almost ten-month ban on increasing the price of long-term milk - every measure of this type, although it is intended to preserve the standard of citizens, actually inevitably leads to a shortage because it is not profitable for producers to sell milk at the same prices as before, while everything everything else that affects that production is growing at breakneck speed