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Financial Times - Belgrade is a city of the future

Nice news indeed... Someone actually noticed that Belgrade is growing :)
In the next round of voting, Belgrade will be fighting for the title of City of future in South Europe and then hopefully get to the final round...
More at FDI Magazine

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The votes for the first round of the European Cities and Regions of the Future 2006/07 have been counted. Charles Piggott reports on the locations that scored highest in the 28 individual criteria across the seven main categories.

A total of 89 hopeful locations filed bids with fDi to join the magazine’s list of Cities and Regions of the Future.

SOUTHERN EUROPE/SOUTH-EAST CENTRAL EUROPE:

Winner: Belgrade, Serbia

Serbia’s economy grew at 8.6% in 2004 and GDP growth is expected to exceed 6% in 2005. Total investment in Serbia in 2005 is estimated to be €1.65bn and significant recent investors include Italy’s Banca Intesa, US company Ball Packaging and Germany’s Metro Cash & Carry. Metro’s facility in Belgrade was the largest greenfield investment in south-east Europe in 2004. In addition, Microsoft has established its first software development centre in south-east Europe in Belgrade.

Negotiations over Kosovo status have began...

...yesterday in Vienna...
I`ll write more about the proposed solutions later, but until then, check out this BBC Belgrade video on "Why are Serbs reluctant to give up Kosovo". It doesn`t cover all the reasons, nor it is expected from BBC though, but it is still a nice presentation of what Serbs think about it...

Click here and then click on video file on the right side.

Traineeship....

I have officially became an SN... :) (it feels strange, I must admit :P)

...and am looking for a position in CSR, Sustainable development, marketing, HR...
well, CSR is what I`d prefer, but anything and anywhere I will consider...

Check me out - SN-In-YU-BK-2006-1252 - and match me :)

Instead of New Year Resolution...

Just a few hours more and 2006 will be here... This is always the time when you are trying to reflect the year before and think of the new year... What will it bring? Ultimate happiness of all of us or more wars, blood, poverty and divides? Most probably it will be the latter...
For me personally, it will bring many important things... The future of my country will probably be decided - Kosovo negotiations will most probably finish, more blood will probably leak, more innocent lives will probably be lost...
And I usually think - what the hell can I do about it? Me alone? Most probably nothing... I`m too young, too unexperienced, don`t have the power to change such big problems... And that`s what is killing me... Perhaps I shouldn`t be thinking about it... Perhaps I should think about what I can do for myself - parties, chicks, travels... Perhaps I should pretend nothing bad is happening around me and leave my parents to care about big things... It`s their job, right?

Blah... not me... not ever...

There are way too many "probably-s" in this world... Probablys that we should act upon...

Check this movie below and start acting...

Happy New Year!
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What would it take to change the world?

Money? Power? Influence?

No, it just takes YOU!

National Strategy for an Information Society in Serbia

Wonderful idea... But we`re waiting for it way too long... Of course, the government is slowing down the process... Unfortunately, we`re still affraid of good things...

http://www.undp.org.yu/tareas/ict4d/nat_strategy.cfm

CSR in Serbia

Even if Serbia is not the strongest country in the world regarding the business ethics and CSR, there are still good case practices. Here`s one really awesome - a company will give away free or really cheap the land and basic infrastructure conditions in order to bring investments in this municipality, so to reduce unemployment and generally support the development of the region.

http://www.beocin-businesspark.com/ataglance.htm

I hope there will be many more similar activities soon... Who knows, I may start another blog, dedicated to CSR in Serbia... ;)