No Hope For The Younger People

VOX POPS

LOCATION: Cafe Milano, Novi Travnik
Questions: Gerald Knaus and Eggert Hardten
Q: What is life like for the young people here?

*Ivan Jukic:
Barman
Tough!

*Mijo Pesic:
Barman
In Short. Miserable. Pure misery.

Q: What are your plans?

*Ivan Jukic:
Barman
The future? I don't know. I dare not plan anything.

Q: Where could you go?

Mijo Pesic:
Barman
Anywhere. It is better to go to Croatia and rent a flat there and work and get some sort of a pay-cheque and give your kids some sort of security...

*Augustin Valjan:
Shop worker
It is obviously not good when all of the young people want to leave this place.

Q: Where to?

Augustin Valjan:
Shop worker
Anywhere.

Q: What kind of a future do you see work-wise?

Augustin Valjan:
Shop worker:
I don't see it because of the people who are in power now are only looking to get as much money as they can for themselves.

Q: What are your plans?

Svjetlana Blaževic:
Student
I don't have a plan. I don't see any future here.
That's why I have any plans. Here at least.

Augustin Valjan:
Shop Worker
I think that the biggest problem in this country is the fact that the people have no respect for the law. Laws exist, but people think that if they break the law, they just need to contact someone they know in the judicial system, and they will take care of the problem for them, with no consequences.

Something like that is not possible in Germany. I guess it is a question of differences in mentality.

Q: Why does the mentality not change if that is what is needed?

Svjetlana Blaževic:
Student
It would take us a hundred years to do that.

Q: Why do you think that would take one hundred years; you don't have a 100 years at your disposal?

Svjetlana Blaževic:
Student
Mentality does not change easily.

Q: Who can make these changes?

School Teacher - name not given
Well, I don't know, I don't have much faith in the current government, there are no investments, maybe nothing will be done at all.

*Lucija Budimir:
School Teacher
How does one start to think differently?
How does one change one's way of thinking?
I don't know, I can't tell you that... [laughs.]

END

FINAL CREDITS
European Stability Initiative
Research Team
Marcus Cox
Eggert Hardten
Gerald Knaus

Production Team
Videography and editing
Daniel Ridicki
Producer
Chris Langdon

This documentary is part of an ESI governance assessment financed by the British Department for International Development

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• Bosnia
• ESI
• Novi
• Travnik
• young
• people

[PolandSoldOutInYalta]

If you only could realize that west is not so great,that these people are very busy and millions of them are not able to relax like you sitting there in this bar enjoying yourslef. The cars they have don't mean anything to them, they are necessity and no one pays attention to them.

time, time , time they all need and YOU have it ALL but never appreciate the time you have to spend. The only thing money CAN NOT BUY!

Good luck everyone!

[Truthiness231]

I've read some recent studies which point toward one of the biggest causes of rise in lawlessness: many of the western cultures (the US and GB most notably) have had major changes in the past few decades as to how we see certain things. Sex and drugs are the two most notable; we've told to believe by society that certain things are OK and the law still says otherwise. Confusion builds in the brain, and next thing you know, the brain is considering breaking other laws for personal benefits.

[aviomaster]

--- European Union some members , dissmantled Yugoslavia .together with their friends from USA --- This is just to start the discution.

[OneMove33]

Interesting

[theman230]

This video is cool but I,m young and live in Novi Travnik and I,m happy and live my life go to school and I love this town.

P.S. No young people in this video 15,16,17 years old!!!

[Hrvatina1990Travnik]

Novi Travnik and the central Bosnia area is beautiful to live in...as long as you have a job there you should be happy...I would pick being a bartender over there over being a millionare in the United States any day

[madbcc]

there is a great future for croatia. we in portugal experienced similar feelings 30 years ago and here we are doing fine. lets not "dramatize" too much either please

[nermin28]

Zalosno ali se bojim da ce tako da bude sve dok oni konji politicari ne promjene svoj nacin razmisljanja i nije vazno jel to muslimanski hrvatki ili srpski grad tako je svugdje uvijek najebe mladza generacija

[Bosnianbella]

Alduatic, stfu. They're still in NT and they would probably make a better difference then Muslims upper NT. Didn't you see how they made their part of the town nice, clean? But in our area, it's SHIT.

[alduatic]

Croatian trash.