March 12, 2009 Balkan News, Serbia
Serbia should start being truthful about its role in the Balkan wars of 1990s and adopt a formal strategy for dealing with victims and perpetrators, says a Council of Europe human rights report. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg said on Wednesday during a visit to …
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March 12, 2009 Balkan News, Serbia
The Serbian minister of economy Mladjan Dinkic told a the press conference Wednesday that the export of arms from Serbia to Libya was halted by the Security Information Agency because of suspicions that the owner of the company that mediated the deal is on the UN’s black list. Dinkic said …
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March 12, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The University of Pristina has gotten back thousands of documents that were removed by the Serbs during the conflict in the late 1990s, with the help an NGO. SPARK NGO, a non-profit organisation that supports people in post-conflict regions by building the capacity of local economic and educational institutions, helped …
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March 12, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Bulgaria’s economy grew by an annual rate of six per cent in 2008, making the country the fastest growing economy in the European Union. The annual growth figure was dragged lower by slower growth of 3.5 per cent in the forth quarter, half the rate of growth that was recorded …
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March 12, 2009 Balkan News, Romania News
Romania’s annual inflation rate rose slightly to 6.9 per cent in February from 6.7 per cent in January, primarily due to the weakening of the national currency, the leu. The National Statistics Institute, INS, also said on Wednesday that the rise in inflation in February was due to an increase …
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March 11, 2009 Eurasia News, Turkey
The state-run Anatolian news agency said the Istanbul prosecutor had submitted a 1,900-page indictment. Fifty-six more people were indicted on Tuesday on charges of plotting to overthrow Turkey’s Islamist-rooted AK Party government, and local media said two retired generals were among the suspects.
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March 11, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The report said Serbia needed about 30 million euros ($38 million) to unearth and defuse unexploded cluster ordnance. About 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs a decade after NATO’s bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, a Norway-based aid organisation said on Tuesday. The study …
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March 11, 2009 Eurasia News
Medvedev said new regulations would require specific senior officials to declare their property on an annual basis. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced new anti-corruption measures on Tuesday aimed at closing legal loopholes and forcing senior officials to come clean about their wealth. Medvedev, who made anti-corruption one of his election …
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March 11, 2009 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
The fate of the Office of High Representative for Bosnia will be decided at an international meeting in Sarajevo on March 26-27. Top Bosnian Serb officials advocated on Tuesday closing the international peace envoy’s office in Bosnia, but a think tank report warned the fragile Balkan country was still not …
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March 11, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News
The Slovene magazine revealed that the Slovenian secret service wiretapped conversations between Slovenian and Croatian PM’s. The Slovenian magazine Dnevnik last October requested of the government the recordings of all telephone conversations between Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and the former Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Jansa, from 2004. In June …
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