Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung

Europäische Länderberichte

Regionalisierung in Serbien am Beispiel der Autonomen Provinz Vojvodina

Franz Schausberger

S. 395-408

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina got its greatest autonomy in 1974 under Tito and lost it 1990 under Miloevic.
In 2002 AP Vojvodina could recover some few competences, received financial betterment through the Serbian constitution in 2006 and is now dedicated to expand its autonomy by a new statute.
The constitutional fate of AP Vojvodina was always virtually inseparably linked to Kosovo. While Kosovo, however, always strived after the statute of a republic and independency respectively, Vojvodina always avowed to be part of Serbia.
After the collapse of the Second Yugoslavia, Montenegros and Kosovos declaration of independence, political elites in Belgrade are largely affected by the trauma of the territorial disintegration of Serbia and impute the intent of separatism to all attempts of AP Vojvodina for more autonomy.
The wish for separatism of Vojvodina is not very pronounced there currently. Should, however, the urgent wish for a new provincial statute not be granted by the Serbian parliament, there would indeed be the danger of forces claiming separation from Serbia becoming stronger. After the currently dominant Democratic Party and Serbian president Tadic arguing for the new statute, pacification of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in the sense of stronger regionalisation is finally on the horizon.

Zitiervorschlag für diesen Artikel:
Schausberger, Franz 2009: Regionalisierung in Serbien am Beispiel der Autonomen Provinz Vojvodina, in: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2009. Föderalismus, Subsidiarität und Regionen in Europa, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, S. 395-408.