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Love Hurts

05 February 2010 |

Simon Cottrell It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Feith: 'New Beginning' for Mitrovica
05 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has said the appointment of a team to create a new Serb-majority municipality in the divided city of Mitrovica could herald a 'new beginning'.

Georgieva, Ciolos Approved with New Commission
09 February 2010 |

The European Parliament has approved the new European Commission at its session in Strasbourg. Kristalina Georgieva and Dacian Ciolos are the new commissioners from Bulgaria and Romania, respectively.

Koricanske stijene: Awareness of Security
09 February 2010 |

A member of the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he spoke to Milorad Skrbic while investigating the murder at Koricanske stijene and "determined that he did not have any operational data about this event".



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Love Hurts

| 05 February 2010 |

It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Guerrilla Politics

Tirana | 29 January 2010 | By Besar Likmeta

Albania’s political class takes its latest spat to the Council of Europe - yet another sign that it has not matured enough to curb its excesses without a referee.


Museum Frenzy Grips Macedonia

Skopje | 21 January 2010 | By Sinisa-Jakov Marusic

Some delicate things take time and a lot of care to make. I see yet another noble idea going down the drain thanks to our compulsive urge to rush things in Macedonia.


Bosnian Football’s False Dawn

Sarajevo | 18 January 2010 | By Denis Dzidic

“Thank God that’s over!,” was the first thought I had after watching on TV what must have been the tenth interview in the past few weeks of the new manager of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team, Safet Susic, aka Pape.


Follow the firework code...

Belgrade | 05 January 2010 | By Simon Cottrell

Every October and early November, when I was growing up in Britain, everywhere you looked there were posters of disfigured children.


My Part in Ceaucescu’s Downfall

| 23 December 2009 | By Marcus Tanner

I’ll always remember the Romanian revolution because it’s the only time in my life I felt like royalty. We’d been waiting on the Yugoslav border, near Timisaoara, for days, as soon as the first news broke on the BBC about “disturbances” in the city.




 
 

Whether it’s the Lotto, betting shops or gambling dens, Serbians are up for a gamble in increasing numbers and despite, or perhaps because of, the economic crisis, business is better than ever.


Albania’s parliament has extended the country’s moratorium on the use of speedboats along its coast for another three years. The moratorium is part of an effort to thwart illegal smuggling.


An international competition to manage Arena Zagreb has attracted only one local company.



Trencherman checks out this Celebrity Haunt.


Tim Judah, the Economist's Balkan's Correspondent, and regular Balkan Insight contributor, has fully updated one of the seminal works on the modern history of Serbia, bringing the narrative through to the present day.


Slobodan Trkulja is one of  Serbia’s hottest export items and his compositions and arrangements of traditional Serbian music have been widely praised.