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1. Editor’s note: |
This Week’s Special, is a part of ‘www.invest-in-serbia.com’ whose goal is the education of potential investors to the Serbian and/or Balkan market. Therefore most of the information we generate is second-source material, as is this report. As with many other sources, this report points out many ideas that may not be familiar to most people in the west. The pace of government reforms, the vast amount of work that is and will be required to transform this, as any recently ‘liberated’ country to a market economy. Articles and sources such as this also point to the existence of not only the organizational but the mental abilities here in Serbia to execute serious, meaningful and, effective reforms in all areas of society.
Ed staff, IIS
This article, “The Right of Access to Public Information”, is reprinted from Geopolitika DIPLOMAT, a local, Serbian publication, with many interesting articles. The right of the citizen to access public information in the west is such an integral part of western life that many times, it is taken for granted. The feeling of security on the part of the bureaucrat, in being able to dispense the information or not, as they see fit, adds to the citizen’s mistrust of the governing class immensely. One should point out that, even though the researchers for this article didn’t encounter active perfidy on the part of government employees, the results were the same – no information for the consumer of the agency – the citizen. This statement now presupposes several concepts clear to westerners and, not quite totally exposed to the citizens of nations such as Serbia – not in the hinterlands, certainly. Satisfying the citizen, providing service[s] at the citizen’s request, these concepts are being brought to the attention of all in places such as Serbia. Therefore, the editorial staff presents this article to our readers as a snapshot on the progress of real reforms and western development here in Serbia.
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