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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Serbia hails "assault" on Melbourne

Belgrade - The Serbian media on Wednesday rejoiced over the success of the nation's five players in the early stages of the Australian Open.

The Press daily said that the Melbourne Grand Slam was under a 'Serbian assault,' while Vecernje Novosti said 'Serbs - World 5-0.'

All five Serbs - the 2008 Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, Viktor Troicki, Janko Tipsarevic, Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic - advanced to the second round.

'Their wins pleases as much as their sure-footed play,' a Vecernje Novosti editorial said.

'Perfect! Only Troicki drops a set,' said a huge header in the daily Blic. 'A better start to the first Grand Slam of the season could not have even been imagined.'

Serbs were traditionally strictly football and basketball viewers. However, they are now tuning into other sports along with their TV channels, following the success of athletes such as Djokovic or world champion swimmers Nadja Higl and Milorad Cavic.

Source:monstersandcritics.com/

Arok warns Socceroos of Serbia threat


Former Australia boss Frank Arok believes his home country, Serbia, could cause the Socceroos real problems from set-pieces at the World Cup.


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Frank Arok led Australia from 1984 to 1990
After facing Germany and Ghana, Australia meet Serbia in their final Group D game and the match could prove vital in what is considered one of the stronger groups in this year's competition.

And Arok, who managed Australia from 1984 to 1990, believes preventing Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic and Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic from providing an aerial threat from set-pieces will be the key to success.

"It will be decided by corner kicks and free-kicks," he told the Sydney Morning Herald. "If I was the Australian coach, I would put them under pressure, maybe play two small, quick, guys up front and spread it out, because the big guys at the back for Serbia don't like that.

"The big danger for Australia will be the two guys [Vidic and Ivanovic] who play in England. They don't have good strikers, but these guys are so dominant in the penalty area. They'll come up for corners and free kicks, and they are so dominant in the air. It's going to be a close game, but an ugly game, and one free-kick can decide everything."

Source:soccernet.espn.go.com/

Serbia charges 15 with murder of French soccer fan

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The Serbian authorities have charged 15 people with the premeditated murder of a French soccer fan in Belgrade last September, the state prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Brice Taton, 28, sustained multiple head and chest injuries when Partizan Belgrade fans attacked him with iron bars and baseball bats on Sept. 17 before a Europa League match against Toulouse. He died 12 days later despite several operations.

"The group mercilessly attacked Taton, fully aware of the severity and illegality of their act," said a statement issued by the Serbian State Prosecutor's office.

If convicted, the defendants face up to 40 years in prison, the maximum sentence under Serbian law.

Police have arrested 13 suspects, including one they consider the main perpetrator of the attack on Taton in front of a central Belgrade bar. Two suspects remain at large.

The death of the French soccer fan prompted President Boris Tadic and the government to launch a campaign to root out violence in sport as well as racist attacks and those on foreigners and minority groups such as Roma or homosexuals.

Taton was the first foreigner to die in soccer-related violence in Serbia, though about a dozen Serbs have died or been seriously injured in similar incidents in the last decade.

Source:in.reuters.com/a

Serbia Press Review - January 20



Here are the top stories in Serbia’s main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.

POLITIKA
The Serbian government will not allow the country's power monopoly EPS to raise prices by 20 per cent. It is said that this demand is absolutely unacceptable, as is an increase in salaries of 17 per cent for the EPS employees.

BLIC
The voting for the new head of the Serbian Orthodox church, which is scheduled for Friday, is a complete mystery since neither of bishops believe that any candidate has a sufficient majority to have his name found among the covers of the Holy Book.

VECERNJE NOVOSTI
Vuk Draskovic, who is a leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement party, is against a referendum on Serbia's joining NATO, arguing that the resolution on the so-called military neutrality was adopted in parliament without first being put to a referendum.

Source:balkaninsight.com/

POLITICAL DIALOG OF SERBIA AND EU



The candidacy of Serbia for membership in the EU will be the topic of a political dialog on January 26 in Brussels, Spanish Ambassador Inigo de Palacio Espana has announced in Belgrade. The meeting will be attended by the heads of diplomacy from Serbia and Spain, i.e. Vuk Jeremic and Miguel Angel Moratinos respectively. The Spanish presidency of the EU will present information on the hitherto steps and inclusion of the candidature on the agenda of the ministerial session. Dusica Maticki has more about what this meeting could yield.

“I believe Serbia will get a clear insight into where do we stand and what are its next moves relating to the candidacy”, said Ambassador De Palacio Espana, while stressing that his country is strongly in support of Serbia. He added, however, that the ministerial session on January 26, in line with its format is not the place where a formal decision on the sending of Serbia’s request to the European Commission could be made. That decision is made by the Council of General Affairs, so it is hard to predict when it will be on the agenda. The Spanish Ambassador has explained that the procedure is additionally burdened by the distribution of competencies within EU institutions. The transition period that has been started on December 1 last year, with the Lisbon Treaty coming into power, should end soon. It is still uncertain which of the roles will stay with the six-month presidency over the EU ,and which will belong to the permanent Chairman Herman von Rompouy, i.e. to Catherine Ashton and Stefan Fiele, as commissioners for foreign affairs and association.

While presenting the program of future work in the European Parliament, the nominated commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, Czech diplomat Stefan Fiele has underlined that the enlargement is in the interest of the Union, because it is a factor of stability. EU Commissioner for Common Foreign and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has also said that the future of the West Balkans will be one of the priorities of its work, adding that she wishes the entire region to make progress towards the Union.

Another important step in the process of Serbia’s integration is the unfreezing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement. The decision on this issue needs to be made by all member-states, but Spain believes it could happen in June, when the discussion on this subject is planned. “In our opinion, Serbia has been fully cooperating with the Hague Tribunal lately, which is confirmed by the report of Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz. If it continues, I do not see how could we make any other conclusion instead of unfreezing the Stabilization and Association Agreement”, emphasized Inigo de Palacio Espana. In view of the same topic, Director of the Serbian Government Office of European Integration Milica Delevic has stated that the EU should have a perception of Serbia doing everything to fulfill its Hague obligations. According to her, it is better to focus on extraditing the remaining fugitives to The Hague than what are the next phases in the European integrations to be reached.

The EU is paying special attention to the improvement of regional cooperation, and Serbia has demonstrated in the past period that it is exerting effort in that direction, assessed the Spanish Ambassador. In comment to the mutual lawsuits of Croatia and Serbia before the International Court of Justice, he said that it would be better to look for the solution through a friendly dialog. Head of the EU Delegation in Serbia Vincent Degert agrees with the stance that dialog is the best way to overcome the bilateral and regional problems.

At the end of last year, 68% of the respondents in a survey in Serbia were in support of Serbia’s membership in the EU. Such a result was contributed to by the visa liberalization and implementation of the Interim Trade Agreement. It can be expected that the potential positive signal from Brussels would lead to even greater support among the Serbian citizens.

Source:glassrbije.org/