New measures of Mayor Aleksandar Šapić

28.June 2023 Branislav Grković

That the progressive "golden age" shines even brighter

The citizens of Belgrade already have the opportunity to enter swimming pools for free, and from September kindergartens, textbooks, English language in preschool institutions will be free. However, the economy has one inexorable rule of its own – there is no free lunch. So who will end up paying for all that freebies?

Beograd

25.February 2023. Sonja Ciric

New rules for Bitef, Fest, Bemus and the like: The influence of politics on culture and by law

Thanks to the new rules of the City Assembly, the government has the opportunity to influence the artistic and programming conception of 14 cultural manifestations of importance for Belgrade: it chooses a selector and appoints the president of the manifestation's board from among its own ranks. The new president of the Bitef Festival Committee is the Secretary of Culture of the City. For now, Bitef is working as if nothing happened, and they expect that it won't

The city budget and the first 100 days of the new city government

28.September 2022 Radmilo Marković

God first created a beard for himself

The end of September 2022 will also mark the end of the first 100 days since the vice-president of the SNS Main Board Aleksandar Šapić became the mayor of Belgrade. This is an attempt to take stock of those first 100 days, as well as hint at what might come next.

Analyze

29.August 2022 Sonja Ciric

We are not drowning Belgrade: "Phantom projects" of the City Assembly

"We are not drowning Belgrade" and "Solidarnost" warn that the events Belgrade Summer and Belgrade Winter cannot be the same as Bitef, Fest, Book Fair and other permanent events of importance for the City of Belgrade, that some of their projects are phantom, and that this is about corruption in culture. It is a pity that they cannot convince the councilors of their views

News

11.June 2022 SP

Constitution of the Assembly of Belgrade: To see who is faith and who is unbelief

Most of the opposition parties have announced that they will not participate in the vote for the President of the City Assembly. The tactic is for the citizens to see who will give the progressives and socialists more mandates towards a comfortable majority. Who and whether that Assembly, which, if it is constituted today, will start ticking off the legal term, will elect as mayor is a strictly guarded secret.