Interesting analysis. I agree that the EU should have offered better prospects and more support if it wanted a future for Serbia more closely tied to Europe. It wanted a closer integration instead, and abandoned the West Balkan. In hindsight a mistake. We woke up in a world where wider influence is more important than closer integration. Now it is too late to be a really credible partner.
Friedrich Tellberg
1 year ago
Interesting analysis. I agree that the EU should have offered better prospects and more support if it wanted a future for Serbia more closely tied to Europe. It wanted a closer integration instead, and abandoned the West Balkan. In hindsight a mistake. We woke up in a world where wider influence is more important than closer integration. Now it is too late to be a really credible partner.
Maurice Austin
1 year ago
” Ćorović, recently arrested for pelting a mural of local hero and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic with eggs, is coruscating [my emphasis] towards her compatriots’ nationalism and “selective memory” over their treatment in the Nineties”
Since coruscating means “sparkling”, and the sense of the sentence seems to mean a combination of excoriating and scathing, I suspect something deeply negative is what is meant. It would be a shame if a beautiful word for a beautiful thing just became another boring synonym for “insulting”, but that is how these things start.
Recently it seems to have happened to “shibboleth”, and “cope”, and it long ago happened to “enormity” and “disinterested”.
Charles Stanhope
1 year ago
After Sarajevo 1914, does anyone seriously ever want to hear the name Serbia again?
Charles Stanhope
1 year ago
After Sarajevo 1914, does anyone seriously ever want to hear the name Serbia again?
Interesting analysis. I agree that the EU should have offered better prospects and more support if it wanted a future for Serbia more closely tied to Europe. It wanted a closer integration instead, and abandoned the West Balkan. In hindsight a mistake. We woke up in a world where wider influence is more important than closer integration. Now it is too late to be a really credible partner.
Interesting analysis. I agree that the EU should have offered better prospects and more support if it wanted a future for Serbia more closely tied to Europe. It wanted a closer integration instead, and abandoned the West Balkan. In hindsight a mistake. We woke up in a world where wider influence is more important than closer integration. Now it is too late to be a really credible partner.
” Ćorović, recently arrested for pelting a mural of local hero and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic with eggs, is coruscating [my emphasis] towards her compatriots’ nationalism and “selective memory” over their treatment in the Nineties”
Since coruscating means “sparkling”, and the sense of the sentence seems to mean a combination of excoriating and scathing, I suspect something deeply negative is what is meant. It would be a shame if a beautiful word for a beautiful thing just became another boring synonym for “insulting”, but that is how these things start.
Recently it seems to have happened to “shibboleth”, and “cope”, and it long ago happened to “enormity” and “disinterested”.
After Sarajevo 1914, does anyone seriously ever want to hear the name Serbia again?
After Sarajevo 1914, does anyone seriously ever want to hear the name Serbia again?