Sunday, April 27, 2014
Ambitious New PM Forges Ahead Against Corruption, Towards Bridge Building
The Serbian National Assembly has just approved former First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić as the country's new Prime Minister. Vučić has a storied political history, particularly with respect to tabling his nationalism in favor of stronger ties with the European Union. As with many aspiring new members, the EU imposes requirements on potential new member nations to improve their stability, especially prior to joining the monetary union. Vučić's approach to this seems sufficiently fresh: in a bombastic speech to the assembly, the new Prime Minister declared that they shall sleep and eat in the parliament building until market-oriented reforms are passed by a July deadline. Since Vučić seems to still enjoy majority support, his term may yield a new approach for how war-torn transition economies fare.
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I can see how it would be good for Serbia to join the EU and move toward a market economy. In some respects the reforms could really help the country, but they have also hurt others that cannot keep up, especially when the EU is in crisis as well.
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