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Future of Bosnia

Inzko Calls on EU to Maintain Focus on Bosnia

27 January 2010 |

Valentin Inzko

Negative political trends in Bosnia must be taken very seriously and require the urgent attention of the European Union, the international community’s High Representative to Bosnia Valentin Inzko said.



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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.



Feith: ICJ Opinion May Ease Tensions
09 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Pieter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, said that the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence could help alleviate tense relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Returned Asylum Seekers Arrive in Region
12 March 2010 |

A bus carrying Macedonian and Serbian nationals who unsuccessfully sought asylum in Belgium arrived in the two Balkan countries on Thursday after departing Brussels the previous day.


Hodzic et al: Custody Debate
12 March 2010 |

The State Prosecution asks the Court to extend custody of three former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are charged with crimes committed in Trusina village, Konjic municipality, in April 1993.



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Kosovo: Gjilan Votes Sunday for Mayor

Pristina | 13 March 2010
Kosovo Local Elections 2009
Kosovo Local Elections 2009 

The five day election campaign in Gjilan, Kosovo has ended and voters will head to the polls on Sunday, March 14, to choose their mayor in the third round of elections in the municipality.

Petrit Collaku



US Slams Albania Secret Service Bill

Tirana | 12 March 2010

The US Ambassador in Tirana panned on Friday a series of proposed amendments to the law on the State Security Service, SHISH.

Bad Quake Could Flatten Pristina’s New Builds

Pristina | 12 March 2010

A mild earthquake on Wednesday has raised concerns about the number of illegal builds – most of which could not withstand a severe quake, experts warn.


Analysis

One-Way Tickets to a Belgian Promised Land locked

Presevo, Belgrade, Brussels, Kumanovo | 11 March 2010 | By Driton Salihu, Gjeraqina Tuhina, Dejan Anastasijevic, Pedja Obradovic and Miomir Serafinovic
Presevo
Presevo

Balkan Insight's undercover reporter took a 35 hour bus trip from Presevo in Serbia's south, to Namur in Belgium, in the company of economic migrants desperately seeking a better future in the EU.

Fraud Claims in Kosovo Serb Church Under Spotlight locked

Belgrade | 11 March 2010 | By Bojana Barlovac
Bishop Artemije
Bishop Artemije

Investigations into alleged shady goings-on in the diocese of Prizren-Raska prompt demands for the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church to be more transparent on money matters.

Veteran Leader’s Imminent Exit Divides Montenegro locked

Podgorica | 10 March 2010 | By Nedjeljko Rudovic
Milo Djukanovic (archive)
Milo Djukanovic (archive)

As Milo Djukanovic confirms that he will soon step down, his fellow Montenegrins argue about whether fatigue or foreign pressure is the main reason why he is bowing out.

Ganic Arrest May Unleash Balkan Legal War locked

Sarajevo | 09 March 2010 | By Sabina Niksic
Ejup Ganic
Ejup Ganic

Fear of tit-for-tat arrests grows, as Serbia is accused of seeking former Bosnian leader’s seizure in London as part of a political campaign to divert blame for wartime atrocities.

Serbia: 'De-euroisation' the key to Financial Stability locked

Belgrade | 10 March 2010 | By Vera Ovanin
5000 dinar-note
5000 dinar-note

Serbia’s aim to reduce widespread use of the euro  to boost macroeconomic stability hinges on lower inflation and strengthening of its flagging local currency, the dinar.

 

Next month, Croatia’s anti-smoking laws will take effect and lighting up in most bars will be restricted.

 


Belgrade Alternative Guide is a project set up by 10 young Serbians who see it as their responsibility to show visitors the true Belgrade.


Demand for office space in Sofia increased towards the end of 2009. By the end of 2009, rental values were 22.5 per cent off their summer 2008 peak and this more realistic pricing brought renewed interest in the sector, according to Elta Consult, a commercial property agency based in Bulgaria.



Accidentally good food on the banks of the Danube.


A powerful new novel follows the fortunes of five Bosnians, trying and not always succeeding, to find their way home.


Lebanon is a film about a group of young Israeli soldiers who were part of the force that invaded the Lebanon in 1982. Along with ‘Waltz with Bashir’,the acclaimed 2008 bio-pic, this is another significant film which examines the controversial military conflict. Samuel Maoz, the director, re-lives his military days, through this small masterpiece of frantic, claustrophobia and humanity.