Belgrade,
21:53,
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Beta
Novinska agencija BetaPress (for Portal Argus)
Kralja Milana 4
11000
Phone: +381 (11) 3602 400
Fax: +381 (11) 3602 400
“Serbia is becoming an interesting society which was best described by Professor Vladimir Goati when he said that our country is being tyrannized by political parties. They are forming alliances not to improve the way they govern, but to strengthen their deadly grip over the state and the people,” Miljenko Dereta, the executive director of the non-government Civic Initiative organization tell Argus. (0)
So far, the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg has passed 17 verdicts against the Serbian state, resulting in somewhat over EUR71,000 being paid out to citizens from the state budget. (0)
In theory, non-government organizations and the media are supposed to be a major driving force in the fight against corruption by directing attention to crooked officials, among other things. In reality, however, Serbian media outlets mostly do nothing more than carry reports on corruption that has already been discovered, while doing nothing in the way of analysis and investigative journalism. (0)
