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Nordic Business Alliance Visits Apatin

16th January 2018

Representatives of Nordic Business Alliance (NBA), led by Swedish Ambassador H.E. Jan Lundin and including representatives of the embassies of Norway and Finland, as...

November 2018 issue

November 2018 issue, no. 169

CorD 1st November 2018

Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

Investments in People Guarantee Success

Interviews 1st November 2018

We need to work together to enhance the skills of our citizens of all ages and backgrounds. The region needs well-trained workers with the proper digital skills to match the demands of this new economy

Gordan Bakota Croatian Ambassador to Serbia

We Can Do Better

Interviews 1st November 2018

What it is crucial is to ensure is the realisation of all rights guaranteed by the existing national and international legal framework for the protection of minorities. Relations with the countries of Southeast Europe and EU enlargement will among the main priorities of Croatia’s presidency of the EU in the first half of 2020, says Ambassador Gordan Bakota

Comment by Boško Jakšić

Joyless Bosnia

Comment 1st November 2018

The recent elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina provided new confirmation that there can be no inter-ethnic cooperation and multiculturalism while three constituent nations lead political parties that are based on pure nationalism, instead of on political programmes and ideas

H.E. Orla O’Hanrahan, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to Greece, Serbia and Albania

We meet challenges by finding new business opportunities

Interviews 1st November 2018

In an op ed H.E. Orla O Hanrahan, ambassador of Ireland discuss how the country is preparing for Brexit, speaks about the Irish approach to assuring efficiency and competitiveness of the national economy and lays out the possibilities for cooperation between Ireland and Serbia in finance, enterprise and telecommunication technology, construction service, and agriculture technology.

Serbia’s Industrial Policy

Let the Right One In

Focus 1st November 2018

Business as usual is not an option for Serbia and the Western Balkans, which is why the new industrial policy should be sectorspecific and rely on new policy measures

Miljen Kreka Kljaković, Production Designer

Imagining on a Given Topic

Culture Interviews 1st November 2018

Miljen Kreka Kljaković (68) is our highest-rated and best-known film production designer. He graduated from the Belgrade University Academy of Fine Arts and alongside his name it is stated, among other things, that he is a member of the Serbian Film Academy, the American Art Directors Guild and Maison des Artistes France, while his acknowledgements include the Golden Seal Award 2015/Yugoslav Film Library, Annual Award for the Best TV art design (1980), the French film academy awards-Caesar 1992 (for the film Delicatessen), the European Film Academy award-Felix 1991 (also for Delicatessen), Yugoslavian Academy Awards 1996 (for the film Underground), a nomination for an Emmy Award -USA 1995-1996 (for the TV film Rasputin), a nomination for the Excellence in Production Design Award – U.S. Art Directors Guild 2004 (for the TV film Helen Of Troy) production design, (for the film St. George Shoots The Dragon) 2010 – from FIPRESCI, The International Federation of Film Critics, and many others

Yusaku Maezawa

Japan’s Corporate Enfant Terrible

Entrepreneurship 1st November 2018

Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire. According to Forbes, his net worth is approximately $2.9 billion as of September 2018. Most of his net worth comes from founding Japan’s largest online fashion mall, Zozotown. He’s #18 on Forbe’s list of Japan’s 50 Richest in 2018, and he’s #822 out of all billionaires in 2018

Đorđe Milutinović, Štark Arena Advisor

The Promoter

Profile 1st November 2018

Placido Domingo, Sting, Jose Carreras, Nick Cave, Nigel Kennedy, Tom Jones, BB King, Chick Korea, Paco de Lucia, Ray Charles, James Brown, Julio Iglesias, Leonard Cohen, Alicia Keys, Bryan Ferry, Joe Cocker… these are just some of the hundreds of foreign and local artists that I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of promoting in Belgrade during past decades working as the head of the Sava Centre concert agency and director of the Belgrade Arena

Ana Ilić, advisor to Serbian PM Ana Brnabić for the digital and creative industries, film and tourism

Serbia – Land of Creativity and Innovation

Feature 1st November 2018

The Creative Industries Council was established to providing the creative industries and creative artists with the systemic support of the state, and to provide a framework for sustainable growth

Warren Bowers, Lower School Principal, The International School Of Belgrade