NUMBER TWO NUMBER THREE NUMBER ONE inside or outside?
Streetcar Sferrazza, rumble of engines, dust raised by the tires on hill starts, beeps, curtain on the agenda. Despite the poor cops, yellow bib, spoon red and whistle in mouth, you commit fully to promote a "normal" flow of vehicles, possibly even directing motorists puzzled about the "preferential" of the tram, one might say that "the real problem Belgrade is the traffic .... " It appears that the main roads crossing the country - both on deck and railway wheel - scientifically pass from the city center intensifying urban traffic, the son of the exponential growth in the number of vehicles in the Serbian capital in recent years. The hills do not help a normal transport planning, so the only subway line includes only two stations (yes, we understand each other: from A to B and vice versa).
On the streets of Belgrade "Titoist Zastava Yugo and recite the lion's share, however, there are pre-owned and new models: the latter category by storm in the Dacia car" low cost "Romania Renalult affiliated group (the powerful Romania's economic growth is also felt in these parts). Immediately jumps to the eye and the absence of Zhiguly Trabant, still alive vegete and throughout Eastern Europe, and the eye of Italian can not help but wonder what the Zastava Yugo remember and famous models as the Fiat 500, 600, Bianchina Fantozzi, the 131, 127, 128 on ... " new point Zastava is even explicitly says "licensed by Fiat." The Yugo and Zastava were cheap but always broke, "says Sasa smile.
Even just looking at the car park you get to deduct that infuses the border with Italy (for which the West) in the past was so close, but also instill open, like the border with Eastern Europe yes open while also closed.
E "border" is surely one of the key words to understand the region. At one time last outpost of Europe to face the invaders Ottoman Empire, Serbia also run along the internal boundaries that separate the Christian world Orthodoxy from Catholicism. In terms of writing, the simultaneous adoption of two alphabets puts Serbia midway between the "Cyrillic" Macedonia and Bulgaria and other "neighbors" - "Latin" equalize the two systems of writing is impossible, so the official documents are written in Cyrillic, with the blessing of the Orthodox Church and nationalist components, although the Latin is widely used on license plates of cars, to stay on, here are all badged Bergamo.
is full of boundaries is also the view of Yugoslavia today: what was the country of Titus is now divided into at least six independent states. Without considering the border "virtual" separating Serbia and Kosovo, still officially not recognized by Belgrade. Except for Slovenia, throughout the former Yugoslavia remains beyond the border of the European Union. And here is materialized a curious paradox of history: if the Serbs once touched defend Europe (specifically, Vienna) from the invading Ottoman (Turkish specifically), now the accession negotiations, a prelude to the opening of the border 'Europe is a reality for Turkey and Serbia for a chimera.
The Danube, which separates today from Belgrade, Novi Beograd, once separated from the Austro-Hungarian empire turkish. Which is why, probably, the road routes pass through the capital, making the fairly chaotic traffic.
It 'hard to tell now and it's hard to tell the Belgrade Serbia. Why is it hard to draw a line between "present" and "past", but perhaps even harder to track with the future. Words such as "Tito" and "Kosovo" still seem able to animate the crowd, perhaps fewer in number than before, while Europe and its institutions appears in some so far, even to those who seem to be able to glimpse the benefits and who are working to promote its image.
macroeconomic data of the beginning of 2008 also seemed positive, in some way for Serbia: GDP grew by 8 .2%, inflation fell to 6.1%, wages were growing "real" with the unemployment rate declining to 19%. Considering that the services make up 66% of GDP and that the vast majority of the market is composed of medium-sized enterprises, small and very small, it can be concluded that Belgrade is the massive growth (in GDP and wages) while 20% of the unemployed resident in the rest of Serbia (excluding Vojvodina, probably). More than the fate of JAT, the national airline in the privatization process, one wonders what will weigh the investment "European" Iveco Fiat-Zastava signed with, perhaps in connection with "the agreement of the gas, which yields to Gazprom Nis Petrol, in return for substantial investments in the energy sector reassuring. Once again, half way, ironically, in the midst of an international crisis, too.
"... And to think I wanted to write something funny and lighthearted" I think, as I read what was written so far. And imagine the faces of my dear friends readers, who expected to see if it's worth or less to prepare passport, bag and baggage on a flight and rischiarsela Jat to see ... the Cathedral of St. Sava. Well the observation "thumb" through the streets of Belgrade seems to indicate a clear influence of the recent past on the composition of the population, not because there is no male generation (roughly between olds and thirty-five) but because the female gender seems largely dominant (as a result).
without Very high heels, often with boots to walk through the streets of Belgrade is amazing to note how many girls stroller quiet on the streets (at night and not a profession) and how are a few ugly ones, though even those are few truly beautiful: an army of just normal girls who are less open to the whims of fashion, pretty, smiling. and your face clean, I dwell over but I realize I am really went along with this second issue.
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