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Article

30 Sep 2016

Author:
Milivoje Pantovic, BalkanInsight (BIRN)

Serbia: Citizens renew protests against Eagle Hills' waterfront development project over concerns about lack of transparency, public consultation & govt. inaction

"Serbia Waterfront activists renew protest marches", 29 September 2016

...Activists from “Let’s not drown Belgrade” ["Ne davimo Beograd"] - the civic movement set up to oppose the controversial Belgrade Waterfront project - said a new protest will take place...at which organisers intend to “remind the prosecution of their duties”. "We want to remind them what their job is,” Dobrica Veselinovic, from the movement, said. “Despite the passage of five months since the night-time demolitions in Hercegovacka Street and despite Prime Minister [Aleksandar] Vucic saying that top city officials were responsible for the demolitions, there are still no results from the prosecution," he added...[A] counsellor to the OSCE mission in Serbia, Maurizio Salustro...said it was clear that the demolitions were “planned at a high level”...The government believes the UAE-backed Waterfront project will transform the long neglected riverside area of the capital. Opponents say the deal with developers was not transparent, is against the national interest, while the proposed development will only serve the purposes of the wealthy.