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11 Dec 08

Fighting the Power Proves Tough in Croatia

The Croatian state may have embraced energy conservation as part of its EU accession - but when individual consumers try to save energy, it’s far from easy.

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08 Dec 08

Power struggle: Meeting Global Energy Challenges in Balkans

Read the articles by the ten journalists selected from Southeast Europe to participate in the 2008 programme of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence here.

24 Nov 08

World Court Suits May Damage Trade

Fall-off in trade predicted as Serbia and Croatia take each other to The Hague.

06 Nov 08

Murder Raises Question of Mafia Power in Croatia

Initial probe into publisher’s death suggests disturbing level of intertwinement between criminal underworld, high politics and media.

04 Nov 08

We Don't Know Where War Criminals Are, Dacic

Serbia is doing its best to fully cooperate with the war crimes tribunal, but doesn’t know where remaining fugitives are hiding, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told Balkan Insight.

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23 Oct 08

Balkan States Search for Favourite in White House

If Europeans could vote in US elections, Obama would win by a landslide - but opinion is more evenly split in the Balkans.

15 Oct 08

Croatian Gangster Style Killing Sparks Anger

The killing of a 26-year old trainee lawyer has prompted many Croats to question their government’s law and order credentials.

01 Oct 08

Balkan Banks Feel Blessed By Isolation

Financial Institutions in Southeast Europe remain bullish about growth prospects, despite the global downturn.

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01 Oct 08

Local Polls Deepen Sense of Crisis in Bosnia

As parties turn away from bread-and-butter issues and indulge in inflammatory rhetoric, ethnic tensions look set to worsen.

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25 Sep 08

Probe into Trade in Degrees Stuns Croatia

Police roundup of corrupt professors hailed as progress in war on graft – but some believe timing of arrests anything but coincidental.

10 Sep 08

Albania Leads Balkans in Business Climate Reform

World Bank report praises pace of reform in Eastern Europe overall but some Balkan states, like Bosnia, are lagging behind.

21 Aug 08

Serb Returnee Homes Vandalised in Dalmatia

While ethnic hatred is one motive for the spate of attacks, hunger for the valuable land on which this homes sit is another.

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20 Aug 08

Serbia Denies Weapons Sales to Georgia

Experts say Yugoslav-made weapons exist all over the world, so their use in the recent conflict does not mean Belgrade actually sold them to any of the parties.

05 Aug 08

Croatia 'Turning Blind Eye' To Fascist Chic

Growing interest in wearing Ustashe symbols and bearing Ustasha tattoos provokes concern that the Neo-Nazi ‘look ‘is becoming almost a fashion statement

17 Jul 08

Croatian Police Reservist Sentence Raises Questions

The sentencing for a gruesome triple murder that ignited the war in Croatia’s eastern Slavonia region 17 years ago, has failed to bring closure to the case.