EU accession and Balkan pitfalls
IT HAS BEEN a tough 18 months for Serbia. At the beginning of last year, the country faced a mini-civil war involving criminal paramilitary gangs. The struggle for power led to the assassination of prime minister Zoran Djindic.
On the economic front, GDP growth slowed to 1.5%, according to RZB, in part because of a prolonged drought, which led to a 6% fall in agricultural output.
And in the middle of last year, the reformist movement was fractured by internal rivalries, notably between Bozidar Djelic, then minister of finance, and Mladjan Dinkic, then central bank governor.
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