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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.


Indictment for Derventa Crimes Filed
12 March 2010 |

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has filed an indictment for confirmation by the State Court, against Ivica Perkovic, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, who is charged with crimes against Serb civilians in Derventa.



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Bad Quake Could Flatten Pristina’s New Builds

Pristina | 12 March 2010
Pristina
Pristina 

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.

By Petrit Collaku



'Serbian Davos' Comes to a Close

Belgrade | 12 March 2010

Top Serbian businessmen and women, together with government officials, gathered at the well-known Serbian ski resort on Kopaonik mountain between March 9-11 to discuss ways for Serbia to overcome the economic crisis.

Silajdzic Complains of Ganic 'Mistreatment' in UK

London | 12 March 2010

Haris Silajdzic, Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, said that Britain should apologise for what he called the bad treatment of Ejup Ganic while he was held in prison in the UK.


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.