Bosnia: Muslim leader criticises arch-rival for ‘undermining country’
The leader of the biggest Muslim party in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sulejman Tihic, has criticised his arch-rival Haris Silajdzic of extremist behaviour and of “undermining the country”. Tihic, president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) said on Friday that Silajdzic, the leader of the Party for Bosnia-Herzegovina and a Muslim member of the country’s rotating state [...]
Serbia & Greece to boost relations
Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic arrived in Greece on November 11th for a one-day official visit, where he met with Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and President Karolos Papoulias. Discussions focused on bilateral relations and ways to boost economic co-operation. Moreover the Greek PM reinstated that his goverment fully supports in an active way the inclusion [...]
Jürgen Elsässer: “The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists”
Source: http://www.voltairenet.org/article143050.html
By Silvia Cattori
In his latest book, “How the Jihad Came to Europe”, German journalist Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the CIA, but perhaps sometimes out of its control. Basing himself [...]
Romanian president: Independence of Kosovo illegal and in breach of UN resolution 1244
The declaration of independence of Kosovo was achieved through violation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, while the great powers are no longer respecting either the resolutions of the UN Security Council, nor international law, Romanian president Trayan Basescu said on Tuesday.
The Romanian president says that Europe is now receiving its “first lessons about [...]
Poland Won’t Open Kosovo Embassy
Posted by Julia Gorin under Republican Riot
Poland’s President has reversed decision to open an embassy in Kosovo and establish diplomatic relations at an ambassadorial level between the two.
“I have my own competences to declare that I am not signing off the Polish ambassador in Kosovo,” Polish President, Lech Kaczynski said in New York.
The Polish Government [...]
Greek investments in Serbia are more than EUR 2.5 bln
Greek delegation, leaded by deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Petros Doukas will visit Serbia as of November 2-4, Greek informational bulletin Greek News Agenda reports. The delegation of the Ministry had visited Serbia just a month ago in reference to the signing of a transaction with which the country provided for Greece participation in the [...]
Competitiveness of Balkans
Published October 16, 2008 BalkanBlog
The World Economic Forum (WEF) published again a comprehensive annual survey “Global Economic Competitiveness Report 2008-2009”. Economic Forum together with its network of leading research institutes and business organisations in the countries covered by the report has calculated sc. “Global Competitiveness Index Rankings” (GCI) 134 countries poled.
The report takes into account [...]
Serbia jumped to top ranking of attractive emerging markets
Published October 27, 2008 BalkanBlog
Recently I wrote here an article named ”Competitiveness of Balkans” where I sited a comprehensive annual survey “Global Economic Competitiveness Report 2008-2009” published by the World Economic Forum (Article and report may be found from here.). The report has calculated sc. “Global Competitiveness Index Rankings” (GCI) 134 countries poled. Now I [...]
Serbia scolds Albania over organ trafficking probe
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC – Oct. 29, 2008
Serbian officials denounced Albania on Wednesday for refusing to investigate claims that Kosovo Albanians killed Serb prisoners for their organs during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
Albania’s top prosecutor said Monday she would not help a visiting Serbian war crimes prosecutor who is investigating claims of organ-trafficking that surfaced in a [...]
Kosovo: Lost to Serbia and to the West
By John Laughland
Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
A few days spent in Belgrade feels like an age. Although I have been here more times than I can remember (albeit not for five years or so) the country remains almost insuperably foreign. There is something radically different about the Balkans, with respect to the rest of [...]