A special event with Misha Glenny, the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences - IWM in Vienna, and Ivan Vejvoda, the Permanent Fellow of IWM, was organised in Dom Omladine in Belgrade to mark the 30th anniversary of the Belgrade Open School. The two prominent guests spoke about the region’s recent past and its European perspectives, about the challenges that the European Union has been facing and about the prospects of liberal democracy. The well-attended event gathered alumnae, alumni and alums of the Belgrade Open School, and prominent members of civil society, academia, cultural life, and the diplomatic corps. The event was moderated by Slobodan G. Markovich, Professor at the University of Belgrade, and the President of the Steering Committee of the Belgrade Open School.
If you ask people emigrating today if they believe there will be no racism over there, they are aware of the problems there, too. However, in more robust economic systems, racism gets compensated by better earnings and higher quality of life compared to a poor society like ours, says Zeljko Jovanovic