Latest news with #MishaSavic
Bloomberg
8 hours ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trump Tower Belgrade Faces Serbia Backlash Amid Corruption Inquiry
Markets Magazine A luxe hotel and apartments would go on the site of a defense ministry bombed by US-led NATO forces in 1999. A former government official was accused of forging paperwork to clear the way for the project. By , Misha Savic, and Andrea Dudik Along a stately thoroughfare cutting through the heart of Belgrade sit the hollowed-out ruins of the Yugoslav Ministry of Defense. The stone facade buckles in the middle, yielding to a charred jumble of debris. It's remained this way for more than two decades, a reminder of the 1999 US-led NATO bombing campaign that destroyed it. It's now slated to become the site of a new Trump Tower.
Bloomberg
31-01-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Turmoil Exposes Cracks in Serbia's Economic Boom
Hi, this is Misha Savic in Belgrade. Welcome to our weekly newsletter on what's shaping economics and investments from the Baltic Sea to the Balkans. You can subscribe here. When the canopy of Novi Sad's railway station collapsed and killed 15 people three months ago, Serbia went into mourning. The renovated station was supposed to be a symbol of the country's modernity, a stop on a new Chinese-built high-speed line between Belgrade and Budapest.
