I really try to avoid reading the British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth blog (and comments) because it just raises my blood pressure with a near constant stream of highly misleading arguments or just purely ridiculous claims. However, a bunch of folks have sent in the story that Ambassador Wordsworth is up to his usual tricks of taking some bit ...

For years, we've had serious problems with the way Serbian journalists and bloggers bring better understanding of Serbia to the world. We see, time and time, again one-sided and simple-minded articles in the western online press, and only few online Serbian "journalists" bringing online the facts, and interpretation of the vast majority of these stories. It appears that Ljubisa Bojic, ...

Sometimes you just need to stand back and applaud a strategy that works so well. Many people thought that the Cyprus-based firm East Point Holdings, owned by Serbian businessman Zoran Drakulic would be in trouble earlier this year after the tender for the sale of the ‘Yugoslav River Shipping’ company (JRB) was cancelled. Potentially, that could have left East Point ...

These days, it's become quite common to see many Ambassadors to Serbia pretty much involved in Serbian political affairs. There have been plenty of protests against such 'interfering', coming from politicians and bloggers but it hasn't done much to stop them from spreading. British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth had an interesting post declaring that "People sometimes ask if that's ...

Many people wrote about Belgrade, the beautiful girl from Belgrade, the parties and clubs, pirate movies, etc. Well, here's a fun one. Over the weekend, Dimitar Vuksanov had an interesting post about Belgrade: Things I love about Belgrade - Things I don’t like about Belgrade. Vuksanov apparently complained about how awful it is that "girls with so much make up" are ...

In the last few years, we've seen a small number of Greenfield investment in Serbia. It's no secret that 90% of investment in Serbia has come from privatizations, but only 10 percent from Greenfield investment (in new projects). Over the weekend, B92 has a story about the Ball Packaging Europe company, one of Europe's leading beverage can producers, and a ...