Sunday, March 09, 2008

Le governement s'ecrase!

So Kostunica, the Prime Minister of Serbia, resigned yesterday and dissolved the Serbian government, citing irreconcilable differences within the administration over the issue of Kosovo as the reason.
I thought this sounded like pretty big news, but for the time being most Serbs I speak to seem to be rather non-plussed. For one, this is far from the first time they've dealt with a "transitional" or temporary administration, and for another, no one really has any idea what this means for the next election. It will be interesting to follow but it is impossible to make projections at this point, so everyone is simply in "stay tuned" mode.
The only thing people seem to think we will see in the near future is a rash of hasty big business purchases/dealings, privatisations, etc. Basically taking advantage of the nebulous legal limbo to move money around, purchase oil companies, sell off this old business, etc. I'm not so in tune with the business environment here so that will be hard to gauge, but that is probably where the biggest changes are going to occur in the nearest future, for now.
Otherwise, things putter along pretty much as normal in my work/social/nightlife lifestyle out here, so there's not much else to say...
A bientot.

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