Balkans.com Business News Correspondent - 17.05.2012 Balkans.com Business News For very many years, operators of ships running in short sea trades around Europe have pointed to the obvious disparities in the level of bureaucracy they have been forced to endure when taking cargo across an “internal” EU border and the freedoms ... |
 Deutsche Welle | Turkey in the Balkans: Myths, illusions and realities Deutsche Welle What is behind Turkey's new assertiveness in the western Balkans? Is it an example of "neo-Ottoman" imperial dreams, economic interests or strategic goals? Turkey's new confidence in the western Balkans and the country's growing political, economic and ... |
Greece's Balkan Inheritance Is Heavy Truthdig By William Pfaff By William J. Astore, TomDispatch By Eugene Robinson By Dafna Linzer, ProPublica By Paul Krugman By Louise Rubacky By Ira A. Hunt By William Pfaff The Balkans are historically apart from Europe for two reasons, one religious and the ... Tim Judah: Greece passes Serbia as problem |
BALKANS: Turks Increase Support For Syrian Rebels Strategy Page May 16, 2012: Greece is on its way to economic collapse and a prolonged period of poverty and miniscule defense budgets. Since the May 6 Greek national election failed to give a single party control of parliament, the leaders of the major Greek ... |
Violent Balkan members of Bandidos behind surge in bikie violence in Queensland Courier Mail This cadre of Balkan Bandidos came to police attention after a vicious group assault on a couple which left furniture smashed and blood on the floor in front of startled patrons of a Mt Gravatt restaurant last month. Police seized CCTV footage of the ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Montenegro: the new beauty of the Balkans? Telegraph.co.uk British holidaymakers seeking something different in the Med can now fly directly to Montenegro. A decade after her first visit, Julia Warren returns to see what awaits them. By Julia Warren Has Montenegro's moment come? In recent years it has been ... |
Slovenia's Mercator Net Tumbles as Balkan Economies Slow Bloomberg Mercator Poslovni Sistem (MELR) dd, the largest supermarket chain in the Balkans, said first-quarter profit tumbled as the region's economic slump pushed consumers to spend less. Net income in the period was 700000 euros ($893830) from 10.2 million ... |
 Globe and Mail | Trial opened against "executioner of the Balkans" Mladic Agenzia Giornalistica Italia The 70-year old "Executioner of the Balkans" Mladic must answer for some of the worst atrocities perpetrated in Europe since the end of World War II: eleven different charges for crimes of war, against mankind and genocide, including one for having ... Thousands still to be tried in the Balkans for warcrimes - By Rusmir Smajilhodzic Mladic makes throat-slitting gesture to victim's mom at genocide trial Mladic 'masterminded ethnic cleansing' |
Thessaloniki mayor to lead education road-show in Balkans Kathimerini Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris will be leading an education road-show across the Balkans this summer in an effort to promote the northern port city's universities and technical colleges to potential students in the broader region. |
Greece Turns Balkan, Serbia Joins Europe in Key Votes Bloomberg Two elections took place in the Balkans on May 6, and when historians look back, I think they'll see a tipping point: The day Serbia ceded to Greece its place as the region's most troublesome country. In the late 1800s, Otto von Bismarck, famously said ... |
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