Hot Issue Nr. 300

Europe´s community is threatened by numerous conflicts and national interests are on the rise. In these times individual advantages seem to value more than solidarity. What needs to happen? Will we ever overcome the Euro crisis? Who has the answers to the most pressing European issues today? What vision does Europe need and who are the initiators?


Those and more questions will be dicussed in the political talk show "Talk im Hangar-7" today, Thursday (15.05.14), live at 22:15 hrs on Servus TV (in German language).

Guests:
Franz Schausberger - former President of the of Land Salzburg and IRE-Chairman
Wolfgang Hetzer - Author und EU Civil Servant
Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell - former Director of the European Central Bank
Gerhard Roiss - Chairman of the oil and gas company OMV
Christoph Leitl - President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
Werner Weidenfeld - Political Scientist and former advisor to Helmut Kohl

Host: Helmut Brandstätter

Live-Stream available:
http://www.servustv.com/cs/Satellite/Article/Talk-im-Hangar-7-011259585886019

Source: Servus TV

NOVI SAD – The assembly of Serbia’s northern province of Vojvodina on Wednesday adopted the proposed amendments to the provincial statute, which are also to be discussed in the Serbian parliament on Friday.

Ninety-nine out of the 120 assembly members voted for the amendments, with six voting against. The Democratic Party of Serbia and the Serbian Radical Party voted against the amendments, while the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) did not take part in the vote. In the debate on the new Vojvodina statute, most party whips said that Assembly Speaker Istvan Pastor deserves the most credit for the fact that it has been tabled to the Assembly. All political parties demonstrated a maximum level of seriousness in the process of amending the statute, while the Assembly of Vojvodina showed that it is a serious institution by ensuring more than the two thirds of votes (80) required for adopting it, Pastor said. LSV whip Branislav Bogaroski said that the party’s representatives, as advocates of respect of law and courts, cannot vote against the proposed statute after the Constitutional Court of Serbia ordered the amendments.

The proposed statute is a result of many compromises, Bogaroski said, adding that the LSV also cannot abstain from voting on such a “major issue”, announcing that the party’s representatives will take no part in the vote. Socialist Party of Serbia whip Pavle Budakov said that, after making a series of compromises, opposition parties in the Assembly made a greater contribution to the adoption of the statute than the ruling coalition (led by the Democratic Party). Predrag Matejin of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) said that the SNS, which leads the governing coalition at national level, could have declined to take part in the vote, and cause a crisis. On these grounds, the SNS could have toppled the Vojvodina authorities, but what it wanted to do instead is to contribute to the statute and its compliance with the constitution and Serbia’s legal system, Matejin said. Last December, the Constitutional Court of Serbia established that 40 provisions of the Vojvodina statute do not comply with the constitution, setting a six-month deadline for amending it, which expires on June 6. The new Vojvodina statute is to be discussed in the Serbian Parliament, and will be adopted as final by a declaration of the Vojvodina assembly.

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