A very dark place

On the last day of January, Transparency Serbia announced that our country ranked 62 nd in the big international Open Budget Index survey for 2016. The list covers 115 countries, which means that we are in the bottom half. However, even more troubling is the fact that Serbia has dropped 15 places in the ranking since 2015, when it ranked 47 th out of 102 countries. We should use this as a convenient occasion to remind ourselves of an interesting