If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia, which is just run like a colony. The way they used to stand up and sing hymns to President Tito, they now salute the EU flag. It's a very strange transition that we're witnessing in most of Europe, and I don't think it's going to work.
I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.
Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.
As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.
I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.
Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.
Imagine a part of the U. S. A. , from which the U. S. A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.
I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia.
The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.
In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.
