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Balkan based organized crime activities gaining ground
By Ioannis Michaletos | The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report 2010 detailing the global drug trends and almost all European heroin originates in Afghanistan and is smuggled in through Turkey and the Balkans or via Central Asia and Russia. In respect to the main heroin problem in Europe, it was... »
ITGI pipeline project facing obstacles
By Ioannis Michaletos | The ITGI pipeline project, seems to be facing its first serious financial issues, according to the latest information that relay around the reluctance of banking institutions to back up the plan, since there are no definite agreements regarding the flow of specific amounts of natural gas from Azerbaitzan. The estimations of... »
Bosnian Islamic terrorism
Interview by Ioannis Michaletos for SRNA to Danijela Dzeletovic on the 30th of June 2010 and to theBosnia-based Serb news agency /SRNA/. Danijela Dzeletovic the Foreign Editor of SRNA, conducted the interview, in light of the latest terrorist attack in a police station in Bosnia, where arrests were made revealing the involvement of Bosnian Wahhabis. A... »
Albania, Hezbollah and the labyrinth of international illegal arms trafficking
By Ioannis Michaletos | The Balkan region has a colorful recent history regarding the existence of Jihadist and terrorist networks that are directly related to the ones in the Middle East. The issue has gathered importance in the beginning of 2010 when the Israeli foreign minister, made explicit remarks on the issue, whilst an interesting... »
The geo-energy expansion of the South Stream pipeline project in the Balkans
By Ioannis Michaletos The South Stream natural gas pipeline project was conceived originally as a 50-50 Russian-Italian energy project, relating to the creation of a pipeline between Gazprom and ENI, to transfer some 30 billion cbm from Russian to the EU. Since 2007 and the first agreement, some notable developments took place, that mostly include... »
The transit Azeri gas and the developments in the East to West gas pipeline projects
By Ioannis Michaletos The developments regarding the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project, that recently grabbed attention, mostly by the introduction of the German energy giant EON in the project, are to be coupled by the immediate access of Azeri gas through Turkey to Europe. The TAP will bring gas to Italy through Turkey-Greece-Albania. More specifically, the Vice... »
International Islamic Jihad: The first global terrorist movement in history
By Ioannis Michaletos 1. The spread of Jihad The past two decades a new form of terrorism has spread dynamically in a worldwide level. The USA was one of the first countries to alert itself since the late 80’s with this kind of asymmetrical warfare, but it wasn’t until 9/11 that the full strength of the... »
The coming population exodus from the Balkans to the EU
By Ioannis Michaletos The EU in the end of 20009 took the decision of liberalizing the regime concerning visas by the citizens from several Western Balkan countries. It is also, widely discussed in Brussels, that after Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Fyrom, Bosnia will also have a visa-free regime by mid-2010, followed perhaps by Kosovo within... »
Southeastern Europe’s Chinese endeavors
Ioannis Michaletos | Over the past two years, the economic crisis has badly affected most states in the world and has caused quite a few financial hurdles for economies in transition, such as the ones in Southeastern Europe. In parallel, a notable development that is being formatted is the importation of Chinese capital through bilateral... »
Notes & commentary on the current aspects of Balkan security
By Ioannis Michaletos | The Balkan Peninsula faces nowadays a mixture of problems, either economic, political, ethnic or societal ones. Two recent interviews by the writer are going to presented that deal with the issues of “Extremism, narcotics contraband, security and political developements”, all centered around the present day Balkan challenges. The Balkans have witnessed amongst other,... »
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