Serbia Votes, the West Decides

Spiked ^ | 24 Jan 2007 | Philip Cunliffe

[Banat]

Serbia looks set for weeks of debilitating coalition-building after the results of parliamentary elections on 21 January. Although Tomislav Nikolić’s ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party won the most votes, under the proportional representation system no party won an outright victory.

Many Western diplomats and politicians have tried to depict the election as a decisive confrontation between the dark forces of Balkan primitivism and ‘pro-European’ enlightenment.

The reality in Serbia itself was more prosaic, with much of the election being fought around economic questions and technocratic promises of fighting corruption.

[Banat]

Someone finally gets it right.

[getoffmylawn]

It's a shame such sober journalism in the West is so rare when it comes to reporting on events in the Balkans. This article sticks out like a sore thumb.

[F-117A]

Kosovo is Serbia bump!