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of the challengers serbia's new president is facing in the interview. today i am talking to the serbian ambassador to the u.k. dan popovich victory also a new president and former nationalist opposition leader. surprised many outside i'm just a couple of which did it surprise you. to an extent yes it was actually the economy that was the topic the most important topic of the electoral campaign and the perception of the. general population was actually such that they were not satisfied with the performances of the economy so. contrary to the perceptions of some service some.

more important quote unquote issues like he'll perspective so serbia or course a war were not in the focus of the complain the economy was and so what was the social factors that led up to his victory would you say the unemployment rate is as high as twenty five percent and this is the most important factor that actually. the majority of. voters so given the environment which is actually globally fair brought to the economic growth actual performance of serbia's economy were perceived as on the southeast texas by a majority of voters and that's the outcome what does present mcclish promise to bring to the table under these circumstances. his or tory was concentrated

on the economic issues d facilitation of foreign investments improving of the. investment climate in the country and reduction in the corruption. scale this namely there is a perception among the voters there could auction still remains a major problem and this isn't by. and his supporters was at these issues so majority of voters did accept that and what about relationships with the outside world is it is the new president's victory a rejection of target rapprochement with the west i wouldn't say so namely the most important difference between the two thousand and eight and two

thousand and eight toric of mr lee college is his move towards the political central positioning of his newly established serbian progressive party as a pro european the one we see across a movement towards the right wing and mr nicol it is traditionally a right wing politician is this part of that movement the thing turn extent yes although the clear cut distinctions between right and left in serbia us political arena warrant i wrote these really made. varies a lot of left wing populists the rhetorically. right oriented political parties and by survivors but generally after four years of predominantly left oriented to government led by two social democratic parties like the democratic

party and socialist party of serbia. we are having a majority which is explaining itself something differently and does that make serbia sort of psychologically a part of europe in that it's subject to the same social trend clumsily so yes. there are trends that can be followed throughout the region not just in serbia and i'm content because of these the. that's. what policy shift do you expect to see in presently connections government when we speak about the policy is i think their economy would be. because as i said that was the only important topic on the elections very tough decisions have to be made by the new government. in dept and this is now high it exceeded forty five percent

of the g.d.p. which is said to limit established by the law so there is very small room for additional. independence on the other hand the deficit is running high between four and five percent of g.d.p. and the. rate of growth which is actually just above the zero rate we do not have much room for more nervous but to enter into a very strict. domain of measures to be implemented in the months to come so in fact it seems as if the rest of europe if you like is moving away slightly from austerity electing governments who don't support austerity whereas it's moving towards things where we see how the new government would formulate its policies we also have to see the newly

elected french government after the elections in june this year. change the course of of the economy it is easy to talk against austerity but to implement an alternative scenarios something different we've talked a lot about europe but mr nicol it is first visit as president elect was made to russia what should we read into that is. it's my understanding that mr unequally in his capacity as the then president of serbian progress who party was invited to the congress of united russia party. or his party's sister party in russia who termed it the congress of the political group so that was something which was prearranged before the election results and the whole it shows the relevant to

mr nicolle each is giving it to a different way so. i would like to. get through with russia they are already excellent relations and i think that there is another additional room for for improving these relations as a diplomat do you think it's possible as president necklet wishes to be a country with two duals one looking to the east and one into the west well yes i have a lot of examples. with such policies some very good friends of russia for instance bulgaria or creation. are members or are becoming members of the u. i don't see why shouldn't serbia. become the member of the european union provided all the conditional disarm at. the same time keep.

relations with major economic partner as russia is and the whole e.u. with russia are part of the us not the force there are stumbling blocks they want material. being a fully fledged member of the e.u. one of them is possibly nato membership which president mechanix said that he would never take on and the other is the recognition of cost of a. mistake next has already made it clear that if serbia has to choose between recognizing cost of a on the e.u. then it can forget about the e.u. there is nothing new in the formulation as you cited namely the same from relations were made by former president george h. so b s the national assembly had adopted five six years ago. declaring the military neutrality of serbia. within the present constellation is politically determined not to become the member of nato.

constitution plame kosovo as a part of the country so no politician. disobey the basic principle was as stated in the constitution of the country he's already wrote the votes as well hasn't he's already sort of undone some of the work that was done to restore relations with serbia's neighbors the leaders of croatia slovenia and both they have said they won't come to the inauguration. and it's denied that genocide dick. the lawyer as i told you in my previous life i was professor hall so. judgments off a court particular bearing in mind the international court of justice are something that top. per definition. the facts that are established i think that national parliament adopted two years ago the declaration condemning the

crime that happened in srebrenica and that was committed against the most young muslims living as it was defined by the international court of justice judgement as president nicholas now rejected that there is that what we should see and that you will have to talk to him not sure what how the things are now developing but. what i know is that the president also condemned the tragic. and serious crime enormous crime committed instead and we had this as a recession of the national assembly of serbia what do you think the e.u. has got to offer us given the debt crisis going on in your country but also the crisis going on inside the european union the e.u. has twenty seven member states and twenty eighth is preparing to enter the year two

thousand and thirteen do not know of any that is trying to leave the european union so there are some values that are inherited in the european union. are exceeding the present day problems the problems of the recession the crisis in the eurozone within three or four years we will have another set of problems send them the recession which is behind us so things are always changing. geographically politically culturally. as all other countries in the region does belong to this neighborhood the neighborhood that's integrated the european union we're speaking about the world for all we are speaking about the economic.

environment that could be. providing incentives for affording direct investments. aimed at increasing employment in serbia and solving the most important history of these two off on the moment of thought or dimension if push came to shove which would be the more important relationship to the one with the e.u. or the one with russia well i would again try not to. explain these relations as being contradictory to the contrary i think they represent a comp complimentary value for the country like. is aimed. towards having the best possible relations with russia while keeping its european path open. president told that to

president putin when he recently paid a visit to or to moscow. thank you very much thank you. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. markets mind campbell find out what's really happening to the global economy. for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into gaza report.

egypt is gearing up for day two of the presidential election runoff with claims that neither of the candidates are represent the people's revolution the voting comes amid a mass outrage as the country's parliament was dissolved with the ruling generals taking over a lawmaker. you want to servers in syria suspended their activities because of escalating violence while moscow denies pentagon claims that a russian military ship is carrying weapons and troops to the conflict torn country . and thousands of protests across europe as if the future of the single currency hangs in the balance while greeks are set for a key vote that will decide if the country stays in the euro zone. and now a sports update with andrew.

hello there welcome to the sports these are the headlines right for us here who crash out of the european championships after one more defeat to greece who reached the quarter finals against all the. while the czechs also made the quarter finals after a one zero win over poland. and class on grass field number three roger federer beats russian rico youzhny to reach the final of the cherry. but first russia out of the european championships they failed to qualify for the quarter finals after losing one nil against greece in warsaw that scoreline enough to send the russians home after the czech republic beat poland one nil in the are they going to secure top spot in group a watching the russian heart break which richard. russian service has been solved and championships offer an incentive to play against greece

while the greeks have one thing that they want to do not just offended numbers and trying to rush on the counter-attack i mean play a big game plan work around treat on the sort of half time in spain in the russian defense a liar and an onus for you run a mile a day and then shot from the back of an attempt to get the greeks but they need russia hundred played by me but they didn't play well and even they just were unable to create anything in attack to be honest i'm not one major major problem long of a game went on rush of enforcement for the good grief defensive display was just sort of the fun times that they gave russian no to spain one so wait a minute really you just get credit for greeks the way they played and they were able to hold on to the turning the hundred should i go i was of atonement for the czech republic they were able to be potent by goal so i mailed really really depressing scenes really for the russian play that some have started so well but unfortunately but i'm out of the storm and raining so green because of the

result can be on again why. she said there russia's fate if they could be saved by the czech republic to poland one nil to claim top spot in the year the chick with the gold in that game and joining them in the quarter finals are greece who against all the odds progressed to the next round they finished second they started the day bottom of the table while russia worked but it's them progress russia. germany have said they'll have to be careful against denmark on sunday despite needing only a draw to finish top of group a the germans held their final final training session in live on saturday deciding not to hold it the arena leviev in order to preserve the pitch there lukas podolski is set in his hundredth cap for his country and the germans want to make sure the occasion also marks their passage to the last eight but despite topping the table they could still go out of the competition defeat by more than one goal against the danes and think for portugal over the netherlands

would send them home early but those computers are two months and i have a feeling the team recognise immediately that we haven't qualified yet if you look at the different possibilities you find out that it can happen quite quickly that we could still go out and have to be careful against denmark despite the fact that we played very dominant until now and we beat the teams that were the hardest opponents on paper holland and portugal. or germany are one of the hot favorites at this year's european championships but they haven't enjoyed an entirely happy can't buy munich start only cruz has told newspapers he's not satisfied with being a substitute and has only played a total of twelve minutes in the eighteen games against the portugal against portugal and the netherlands but general manager all of a bit off the night such comments have unsettled the squad. does enjoy the most is that of them i think the most important thing is that this is not transferred to the team it will always be like this in the tournament we've played two games now

and there will be unhappy comments from players that come up on the one hand you ask yourself is it really necessary. i'm quite happy that i'm satisfied that they're not thinking i'm happy to be here and just spend time it's important that the manager trusts them and that you always make sure to them that they are the chosen ones. well to have a little look at growing a porsche to play the netherlands in the other game there on saturday there are many possible permutations here but the easiest thing to say at the moment is that all four teams can still reach the quarter finals and a draw for germany in portugal would be enough to send them through. elsewhere it's league could be without their star striker mario balotelli for their last game against ireland on monday the munch the city forward injured his nature in training and is being assessed ahead of their must win match against the irish meanwhile italy's coach scoffed at conspiracy theories surrounding the last games ingroup say even eventually win on monday they would still be knocked out if spain

incorporation played at a high scoring trough that result would sink those two thighs both would progress to the last eight bases are planned ellie had this to say to the conspiracy theorists. the forty acres agreed i really have a hard time listening to these debates but the i really do you know that's not the way i see things your but we're talking about the champions of both world cup and euro the team which over the westin use energy in the whole world with their game and with their contagious enthusiasm everybody wants to copy this team in and should be the thinking of the words you see with this kid we have a problem here we really do if we think we want to cheat. to prove his point spain of also stressed that only aim is to be a defender out all laughed at suggestions there could be an agreement between the sides and said his team wanted to finish on top of groups a. lot of those in the to do is a result he is a possible result just like one meal or any other what is clear is that we're going

to win the game as always italy will have to win their game and. creation alike will go out there will be no agreement that is stupid and each team will go to the field of weaning the game and not depending from others. meanwhile ireland have described their exit from the euros as heartbreaking they're preparing to meet italy and it's a term to avoid a three straight or three straight defeats at the tournament but it mitt there you are a dream has been well and truly shattered. if i break into your dream to go i have a chance to. be brilliant i got the gist of. it. is more to. do well you know we haven't. played against teams arrive tired of. our best at the moment it. seems.

elsewhere fifa president sepp blatter says he has no doubts brazil will host a successful world cup in twenty six states the football chief is currently in europe why and gave their three manager of their national team ask to borrow as an order of merit medal for his achievements in football but blatter also said that despite the construction and infrastructure problems brazil has faced it will be ready to host football's biggest told. brazil will organize an exception world cup it is a country that at the moment drenched number six as an economic power it cannot fails we are aware of some problems but we are in this together and as i've said we will continue working hand by hand this isn't far because in football we should not be used but the matter tanta is complete trust in the brazilian there been ization to prepare the world cup it was elsewhere to take villanova has been officially unveiled at the new barcelona coach after signing a two year deal with the cattle and side the forty two year old steps up after

assisting former pastor boss pep guardiola the pesty of the club to a staggering fourteen tight. possible nineteen over the past four years before cardio recorded a day at the end of the season last month so villanova has a tall order to follow but he is not intimidated by the fanatical task. i'm not too worried about any possible comparisons between what all in myself i would just try to do my job well and i will give it just as much time as i did when i was an assistant coach because i give my all you can before so i'm not worried about it and comparisons. away from football and roger federer has reached his first final on grass this season he thrashed russia's mikhail youzhny in straight sets at the jerry webber open to set up a showdown with tommy haas federer made this one look simple taking the first set six games to one and then having a little trouble in the second winning that six four for the match federer has now beaten usually in all thirteen of them made things. probably

they face more resilience from the local favorite tommy haas the german winning his semi against philipp kohlschreiber in straight sets seven five seven six. motorsport hunder. has grabbed his first pole position he'll start at the front of the grid for sunday's british grand prix the spaniard fastest in qualifying on a rain swept silverstone track he was just over three seconds faster than american ben spies the defending champion casey stone was the quickest championship later you'll get it ends i will start from fourth trouble for nicky hayden he crashed out on the start and seven dollars to carry teammate valentino rossi also tumbled in similar circumstances but recovered to claim ten spot. when they went to make two more will do so nor do they make

a little bit difficult because rain. i d n a i can get good grief i just wait for two more race see what the war today would do whether we have fun just because they're. so i do do do make a good decision i tried to do this big he had morals and a reminder of our top story russia have been knocked out of the european championships after losing one nil to cory saturday's the sports fanatic about to his coming up next.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports.