Dragan Pavlovic is concerned about his future. He was laid off in 2002 from a car factory in a predominantly working-class city of Kragujevac. The massive layoff affected a few thousand workers in a government effort to find a strategic partner and recover the Serbian auto industry. As he is packing up to give his unemployment center a visit, Dragan says:

Until then nothing changed. Management stayed more or less the same, trying to find mechanisms to raise their salaries. They traveled everywhere around the world to find strategic investor but I believe they were not trying hard enough, knowing that if a private owner comes in, their positions may come at risk.

At unemployment center counter Milica is waiting to sign another two-year contract providing her with pension benefits and a small monthly pay.

They made at least ten announcements, saying contract-signing with foreign corporation is coming closer. However, the only thing they did is a deal to produce old model of Fiat’s punto. Of course I could not get employment then. I am a 50-year-old engineer holding a university degree and the only place I can find a job is at a fast food restaurant. Think how humiliated I would feel after 30 years of work at the office to start flipping burgers at some local shop.

The national economy is brought down by the government's tactics to implement a strong national currency policy. Says Drakulic, owner of the “Jug Point” company, one of Serbia's biggest exporters:

Everybody sees that the country’s export-trade deficit will be more than seven billion dollars! This government has to find mechanisms to stimulate exporters. On the contrary, what they do is stimulate import. I think this is a forced measure because ministry of finance is trying to prove it can keep one-digit inflation this year. It is better to have higher inflation if it helps the economy growth overall.

molim prevod, za nas sa osmicama iz engl....please...

ti to mene malo z...

ovde objavite izjave zeposlenih i poslodavaca da vidimo ko je kriv, ja cu takodje posto je to deo novog projekta nase posrnule ekonomije.

Vanilla, je li to tvoj rad???

zar se ne kaze car industry?

factory ide za klasicnu fabriku a sto se tice automobilizma mislim da si upravu, automobilska industrija odnosno car industry !!!

Ma to uopste nema veze, primer upotrebe "The Sports Car Factory" na http://www.hallville.com/ , mislim da propustate poentu a ona se vezuje za sustinsko znacenje sadrzaja teksta.

kada smo vec kod toga sustina novinarstva je da uocimo bitnu od nebitne informacije. Sustina zivota je da podjemo tragom prave informacije.

To je inace deo mog clanka sa GV-a, onaj koji govori o radnickim pitanjima i radnickom otporu, sto bih voleo da u buducosti nadogradim na ovom topicu

sustina zivota???!!!
prosvetli me molim te:)

To je sustina zivota??? Od kada ???

uspeh u svemu zavisi od toga da li izaberemo prave informacije u bujici podataka dostupnih svuda oko nas, to je osnovna filozofija informacionog doba kome mi vremenski pripadamo, da li se slazete sa tezom?

pa da, ali za razne ljude postoje razne "prave" informacije, ne postoji univerzalna prava informacija, osim apokalipse...

Je li dobra informacija i prava !?!?!

nije, prava informacija (za tebe prava), tj. ona koja TEBI treba

pa...OK...ja sam primetila da si rekao "auto industry" a to tako ne moze bre:)) ostatak, pravo da ti recem nisam ni citala, ali mozda je i bolje za tebe, ko zna sta bi'jos nasla

htedoh reci da je meni prava info. da neko ko ima 10 iz engl. kaze "auto industry''))))