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Serbia & Montenegro: Pointless Elections and Possible Solutions for Serbia
Nebojsa Malic takes a hard look at the options on the eve of Serbia’s
presidential election.
After the first round of the
pointless poll that was the Serbian presidential election, two candidates
emerged to contest the dubious honor or presiding over Empire’s favorite
European pariah. On one side is Boris Tadic, heir to Zoran Djindjic’s party and
policies, and former defense minister under the incompetent and venal Dossie
regime. On the other, Tomislav Nikolic, heir to Vojislav Seselj’s party and
policies linked to the much-maligned regime of Slobodan Milosevic.
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Posted by CDeliso on Friday, June 25 @ 11:35:00 EDT
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Macedonia: Decentralization Continues to Bedevil Macedonia
The most crucial, and therefore most unpleasant issue with
which Macedonia has to grapple in 2004 is decentralization- the devolution of
power from the central government to “local self-government” administrations
throughout the countries. This issue has continued to be the point of greatest
friction between the once-solid government coalition. But not only is it
straining Macedonia’s inter-ethnic collaborators, it is also revealing stress
fractures within the individual parties themselves.
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Posted by CDeliso on Thursday, June 24 @ 10:40:00 EDT
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Macedonia: NATO to Macedonia: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Macedonia, along with Albania and Croatia, have been told
that they shouldn’t accept much from the alliance at its annual summit in
Istanbul, to be held on June 28-29. While not entirely unexpected, the news is a
bit dismaying for a government that has been optimistically selling its citizens
on a 2006 guaranteed entry into the trans-Atlantic military club.
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Posted by CDeliso on Tuesday, June 22 @ 10:35:00 EDT
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US: The Secrets of Occupation: Scott Taylor on Iraq
Earlier this month, Canada’s top war reporter, Scott
Taylor, returned from a volatile Iraq with more harrowing tales of the
“liberated” country under occupation rule. In this interview, Taylor presents
new evidence of how the US Army is trying to evade responsibility for its
actions- and how some soldiers hope to cash in from the chaos. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the article and see how.
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Posted by CDeliso on Monday, June 21 @ 15:20:00 EDT
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Serbia & Montenegro: Update on Serbia’s Presidential Race
Fretting over Serbia’s political future has been an obligatory part of the
Western discourse as shaped by the media, government officials, NGOs and policy
centers, ever since Slobodan Milosevic was deposed in October of 2000. Almost
four years later, many of the same characters who supplanted him remain in the
game, chief of all Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, though some, such as the
assassinated
Zoran Djindjic, have fallen by the wayside.
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Posted by CDeliso on Sunday, June 20 @ 17:25:00 EDT
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Bulgaria: Bulgaria All Set to Join the EU, Probably
Bulgaria’s
completion of membership negotiations with the European Union on Tuesday has
paved the way for its entrance into the EU on January 1, 2007. Having jumped
this hurdle, there remains only the EU Accession Treaty (to be signed next
spring) as the last major bureaucratic formality for Sofia’s joining up with the
Western club. Nevertheless, the EU has reserved the right to defer the entrance
if it feels the country is not quite ready by that time.
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Posted by CDeliso on Wednesday, June 16 @ 09:20:00 EDT
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Bulgaria: Ideas, Enthusiasm Fuel Bulgaria’s Tourism Growth
Recently welcomed into NATO, and preparing for EU
membership in the next few years, Bulgaria continues to take major steps forward
in its remarkably quick transition from Sovietization to Western capitalism.
Although a large part of its success has to do with good geographical fortune
(i.e., not suffering from growth-retarding war, as have its West Balkan
neighbors), Bulgaria has also embarked on a genuinely progressive and proactive
marketing and publicity campaign to entice visitors and foreign capital from the
outside world. And there are clear sign that the hard work is paying off.
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Posted by CDeliso on Saturday, June 12 @ 11:00:00 EDT
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