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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".



Romania Press Review - November 18

Bucharest | 18 November 2009 |
 
Here are the top stories in Romania’s main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.

ZIARUL FINANCIAR
Romania is the European Union’s most corrupt country, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International said on Tuesday as it unveiled its 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index today. The organisation said policy decisions since the start of negotiations for EU accession had undermined the country’s political institutions and contributed to the perception that the risk of corruption in the country had increased.

CAPITAL
The Labour Inspectorate had announced it had doubled maximum fines for firms taking on workers illegally to 932 euros. It said the fines, effective as of 16 November, would be handed to employers for each person
found working illegally.

FINANCIARUL
Romania’s largest oil company Petrom has been named as one of the world’s top global energy firms. The firm, owned by Austrian OMV AG, came in at 169 in the Platts 2009 global energy companies ranking - the only Romanian company in the list.



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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.