July, 2012

• 13 July

  Sacked Serbian Judges to Return to Courtrooms

  The Constitutional Court of Serbia has decided to overturn a decision by the High Judicial Council and reappoint 126 judges sacked as part of controversial judicial reforms.The Constitutional Court of Serbia accepted the complaints of 126 judges who were dismissed from the courts after the judicial reforms of 2009. The …

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• 13 July

  UN Chief Includes Kosovo on Balkan Tour

  Ban Ki-moon will visit the former Yugoslavia for a week, starting July 19, a Belgrade newspaper reported – noting the Serbian President’s concern of the nature of his visit to Kosovo.This will be the first visit to the region by a UN Secretary General since the dissolution of Yugoslavia. According …

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• 13 July

  Shakeup at Top of Kosovo Politics

  The deputy prime minister and the deputy finance minister resigned on Monday, facing corruption charges, while the recently resigned ministry of justice returned to his post.Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Bukoshi and Deputy Finance Minister Astrit Haraqija resigned on Monday while they are investigated for corruption. In a further shake-up of …

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• 12 July

  Court Ruling on Vojvodina Divides Serbs

  Constitutional Court ruling, that some provisions of the law on Serbia’s northern province are not in line with the constitution, reveals liberal-nationalist split.The court ruling has revealed sharp divides in Serbia between liberals who champion provincial autonomy and nationalists who see it as a threat to Serbian unity. Bojan Pajtic, …

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• 12 July

  Montenegro Commemorated Srebrenica Genocide

  Montenegro and its Bosniak community marked the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide by saying that the country has still not fully faced up to its past, and naming one of the streets in the capital after a Bosnian war hero.An NGO forum of Bosniaks and Muslims, the Parliament of …

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• 12 July

  Attack on Prominent Kosovo Journalist Condemned

  Reporters Without Borders has condemned the assault on Halil Matoshi, a reporter and political analyst, who was attacked this week in Pristina.Matoshi was attacked on July 10 by three unidentified men, one of them armed with a knife, on a street of the capital, but escaped with relatively minor injuries.

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• 12 July

  Albania Parties Reach Deal on Election Reform

  Albanian parties reached an agreement on Wednesday as the mandate of the parliamentary commission tasked with improving the electoral code was due to expire.The agreement covers a series of divisive issues, including the re-election of the members of the Central Electoral Commission, CEC, the use of technology in the electoral …

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• 12 July

  Bulgarian Men Most Likely to be Jobless in EU

  The percentage of unemployment among men of working age in the EU is highest in Bulgaria, Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU, says.The share of unemployed men in Bulgaria is 25 per cent, followed by Romania at 13.5 per cent and Hungary at 11.7 per cent. Data of Bulgaria’s …

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• 12 July

  EU Representative in Bosnia Meets RECOM Advocates

  Head of the EU delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina Peter Sorensen says that he hopes the RECOM initiative will help reconciliation in the Balkans.Following the meeting with the advocates of the Coalition for Reconciliation Commission, RECOM, Sorensen said that he commends all civil society organizations that pursue reconciliation in the …

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• 11 July

  Belgrade Women Honour Srebrenica Victims

  Close to hundred people gathered on the central square of the Serbian capital in order to pay homage to those killed in Srebrenica in 1995.A performance called “We will never forget the genocide in Srebrenica” was organized on Tuesday evening by the Serbian NGO Women in Black. “We believe that …

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