INTERVIEW
Hard-hitting Math Are we going to wake up?
ALEKSANDAR MILOŠEVIĆ Editor of the Economy section in Danas daily
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is analyses of the economic situation always put us in the context of global political events. He is an economic journalist whose articles always reveal the essence of the problem. In an inter-view with Aleksandar Milošević, editor of the Economy section in the daily newspaper Danas, you will find out what economic consequences the war in Ukraine has brought to Serbia, what is going on with inflation, the real estate market and people’s dissatisfaction.
© Radenko Topalović
It is impossible to start any conversation about the economy today without mention-ing the ongoing war in Ukraine. At the beginning of the conflict, all sorts of things were said, including that Europe would freeze without Russian gas and that Russia would collapse under Western sanctions. What consequences do small economies like ours have suffered from the war in Ukraine? True, but in the end neither happened. Europe was lucky to have such an unusually warm win-ter, which meant there was plenty of gas to spare, while Russia avoided some of the projected worst-case scenarios and ended the first year of the war with a GDP decline of just 2.1 percent. Those who observed the situation with a cool head a year ago were trying to explain that politi-cians’ foreshadowing catastrophic scenarios for Russia would not come true and that that would not deter Moscow from further attacking Ukraine.