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Sunday, 19.10.2008.

14:35

"EU deal means lower duty, higher production"

The EU Integration Office estimates that Serbia will receive EUR 150mn less in customs duties by unilaterally implementing the Interim Trade Agreement.

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Bojan

pre 15 godina

I mean seriously instead of doing this whole deal, they could have done the following:
With regards to agriculture they could have actually adopted policies that would make agriculture more profitable. At present Serbia uses only 30% of it's agricultural capacity. The DSS and Radicals have said this would be a top priority of their government. The pro-western parties sued the excuse, "We shall wait for EU funds and the opening of the EU market before we take such steps" -- in other words even though they said they would take the steps proposed by the opposition in 2001 they don't want to help Serbia they just want Serbia to be depended on the EU in order to ensure EU membership (i.e. by making sure farmers support the EU).
- The dependence on the EU in the agriculture sector also shows another incompetence of the government. They argue that to export the increase agricultural capacity the EU market needs to be open to them. Yet during communist Yugoslavia Serbia used most of it's agricultural capacity not by exporting to EU, or to other Yugoslav republics but by exporting to other countries -- i.e. Eastern Europe, the "third world" and the Middle East. Not only that but even under Slobodan Milosevic during the sanctions Serbia still used 45% of it's agricultural capacity. Not only that but in 2002 (after the government policies caused capacity used to go down) when Vojislav Kostunica signed a deal to feed libya with agricultural products in return for processed sulfur free oil that Serbia could sell to other European states at a big profit the same parties now in government refused to ratify the deal (under such a deal awgricultural capacity used would have been higher then the level under Milosevic). What is especially ridicoulous about the government policy is that if Serbia needs the EU market for agricultural exports so much then the Libya deal or exporting to other countries would be the best thing for Serbia as it would mean that Serbia was decreasing it's dependence to the EU and this would send an automatic signal to the EU to open up it's agricultural markets to Serbian exports.

Bojan

pre 15 godina

I mean seriously instead of doing this whole deal, they could have done the following:
With regards to agriculture they could have actually adopted policies that would make agriculture more profitable. At present Serbia uses only 30% of it's agricultural capacity. The DSS and Radicals have said this would be a top priority of their government. The pro-western parties sued the excuse, "We shall wait for EU funds and the opening of the EU market before we take such steps" -- in other words even though they said they would take the steps proposed by the opposition in 2001 they don't want to help Serbia they just want Serbia to be depended on the EU in order to ensure EU membership (i.e. by making sure farmers support the EU).
- The dependence on the EU in the agriculture sector also shows another incompetence of the government. They argue that to export the increase agricultural capacity the EU market needs to be open to them. Yet during communist Yugoslavia Serbia used most of it's agricultural capacity not by exporting to EU, or to other Yugoslav republics but by exporting to other countries -- i.e. Eastern Europe, the "third world" and the Middle East. Not only that but even under Slobodan Milosevic during the sanctions Serbia still used 45% of it's agricultural capacity. Not only that but in 2002 (after the government policies caused capacity used to go down) when Vojislav Kostunica signed a deal to feed libya with agricultural products in return for processed sulfur free oil that Serbia could sell to other European states at a big profit the same parties now in government refused to ratify the deal (under such a deal awgricultural capacity used would have been higher then the level under Milosevic). What is especially ridicoulous about the government policy is that if Serbia needs the EU market for agricultural exports so much then the Libya deal or exporting to other countries would be the best thing for Serbia as it would mean that Serbia was decreasing it's dependence to the EU and this would send an automatic signal to the EU to open up it's agricultural markets to Serbian exports.

Bojan

pre 15 godina

I mean seriously instead of doing this whole deal, they could have done the following:
With regards to agriculture they could have actually adopted policies that would make agriculture more profitable. At present Serbia uses only 30% of it's agricultural capacity. The DSS and Radicals have said this would be a top priority of their government. The pro-western parties sued the excuse, "We shall wait for EU funds and the opening of the EU market before we take such steps" -- in other words even though they said they would take the steps proposed by the opposition in 2001 they don't want to help Serbia they just want Serbia to be depended on the EU in order to ensure EU membership (i.e. by making sure farmers support the EU).
- The dependence on the EU in the agriculture sector also shows another incompetence of the government. They argue that to export the increase agricultural capacity the EU market needs to be open to them. Yet during communist Yugoslavia Serbia used most of it's agricultural capacity not by exporting to EU, or to other Yugoslav republics but by exporting to other countries -- i.e. Eastern Europe, the "third world" and the Middle East. Not only that but even under Slobodan Milosevic during the sanctions Serbia still used 45% of it's agricultural capacity. Not only that but in 2002 (after the government policies caused capacity used to go down) when Vojislav Kostunica signed a deal to feed libya with agricultural products in return for processed sulfur free oil that Serbia could sell to other European states at a big profit the same parties now in government refused to ratify the deal (under such a deal awgricultural capacity used would have been higher then the level under Milosevic). What is especially ridicoulous about the government policy is that if Serbia needs the EU market for agricultural exports so much then the Libya deal or exporting to other countries would be the best thing for Serbia as it would mean that Serbia was decreasing it's dependence to the EU and this would send an automatic signal to the EU to open up it's agricultural markets to Serbian exports.