Greece’s Muslims Cite “Slaughter” Threat
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 13:42
- Written by BC & Agencies
The Muslim Association of Greece (MAG) said that it has received a threatening note giving all Muslims, Greeks and foreigners, one month's time to evacuate the country or be "slaughtered like chickens," according to a statement released by the association on May 18.
The note, published on the association's webpage, is written in Greek, English and Arabic and the Golden Dawn emblem is printed on the paper, although there is no claim of responsibility from the neo-Nazi group that has 18 seats in Parliament, wants all immigrants out of Greece and has been accused of assaults on them, which the party has denied.
The note is printed over a symbol of Golden Dawn which has an openly anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-foreigner, ultra-religious jingoistic platform and says it wants a Greece populated only by Greeks with 100 percent Greek blood from both parents.
Serbian Pirates dominate the Danube River in Europe
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- Published on Monday, 20 May 2013 17:19
- Written by Paul Bradbury
The issue of piracy has made global headlines in recent years with events off the Somali coast, but instances of piracy are also occurring along the waterways of mainland Europe, according to a report in Croatian daily, Jutarnji List, on October 12, 2011.
Wildfires in SW Serbia, Sandzak, Kosovo
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- Published on Sunday, 28 April 2013 18:21
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Firefighters are still struggling to put out three fires near the town of Priboj, Sandzak, in the southwest Serbia. Strong wind is hindering efforts to put out the flames.
Around 60 hectares of forest have caught fire in the municipality of Leposavić in northern Kosovo.
Serbian police Emergency Situations Sector's Dragan Dončevski said that there had been four fires near Priboj on Saturday but that one had been extinguished.
Croatian Pilots, Flight Attendants go on Strike
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- Published on Thursday, 16 May 2013 02:57
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Croatia Airlines (CA) cancelled over 20 scheduled international and domestic flights on Tuesday as its pilots and cabin crews went on strike in the morning demanding that their acquired rights be retained in a new collective agreement, Hina reports.
Leader of Bosnian Serbs "no longer America’s darling"
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:12
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The political inconsistency of BiH entity of Republic of Srpska President and SNSD leader Milorad Dodik will no longer be tolerated in international political circles, the Anadolu Agency has learned from interlocutors commenting on the decision by U.S. Ambassador Patrick Moon not to meet with the first man of this BiH entity during a visit to Banja Luka.
"Milorad Dodik is no longer the darling of either the U.S. or a great part of the international community, and yesterday's statement by Ambassador Moon, that meetings with Dodik have become frustrating, is just a consequence of Dodik's conception of politics," SDP delegate to the BiH's RS National Assembly Slobodan Popovic said.
Boyko Borisov is tough enough to be Bulgarian PM again
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- Published on Sunday, 12 May 2013 22:30
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Former bodyguard Boyko Borisov, is elected for another term as Bulgaria's prime minister in elections on Sunday, and he is as charismatic as he is tough.
But the dramatic way his first term ended in February makes it clear that these qualities may not be enough to tackle the deep problems faced by the European Union's poorest country. Nevertheless, he is now elected for a second term.
The 53-year-old quit the first term after anger about poverty, utility prices and corruption erupted into sometimes violent mass street protests. Seven people set themselves on fire.
The burly bruiser claimed he had been appalled by the sight of blood at a Sofia rally that got out of hand the night before he resigned, but analysts detected crocodile tears.
Sarajevo – European capital of culture
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:13
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President of the Association of Publishers and Booksellers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ibrahim Spahic yesterday visited the the 23rd International Sarajevo Book Fair with Director-General of European Culture Maribor 2012 Suzana Zilic-Fiser.
EU entry brings stiff competition to Croatian farm and food industry
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- Published on Saturday, 04 May 2013 14:55
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Croatia's forthcoming admission to the European Union, set for 1 July is a great challenge for the national agriculture and food industry that will have to be prepared to operate in conditions of tight competition, and therefore farmers and producers are advised to be organised in co-operatives and clusters, it was said at a round table discussion held in Zagreb on Wednesday.
During the debate on "The Food Market After Croatia's Admission to the EU", organised by an association of Croatian reporters covering the agricultural sector, Deputy Agriculture Minister Snjezana Spanjol said that farmers and food producers must be aware of the necessity of being organised in associations and clusters in order to reduce costs and to boost their competitiveness.
Serbia, Kosovo in historic deal to normalise ties
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- Published on Saturday, 20 April 2013 14:04
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The premiers of Serbia and Kosovo on Friday initialled a historic deal to normalise ties in a move key to the future of the Western Balkans, said EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
"These negotiations have been concluded," Ashton said. "The text has been initialled by both prime ministers."
"What we are seeing is a step away from the past and, for both of them, a step closer to Europe," Ashton said after winding up talks with Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci.
"The agreement will help us heal the wounds of the past," Thaci said. "This agreement represents the start of a new era, an era of reconciliation and inter-state cooperation."
Serbia and Kosovo: Balkan breakthrough
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- Published on Monday, 29 April 2013 00:38
- Written by BC-Stuff
The deal struck between Serbia and Kosovo on April 19th was nothing short of historic. It was a big success for Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign-policy chief, who mediated ten gruelling rounds of talks between the leaders of the two sides. And it demonstrates that the lure of EU enlargement is still sufficiently strong to get people and countries to do things that they would otherwise resist.
The agreement was negotiated by men whose backgrounds hardly suggest they were cut out for compromise. Ivica Dacic, Serbia's prime minister, was the spokesman for Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian leader who went to war in Kosovo in 1998 and fought against NATO there in 1999. His partner was Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's deputy prime minister, once an extreme nationalist. On the other side was Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's prime minister and a former guerrilla leader against the Serbs.
Serbia Massacre Puts Spotlight on Balkan Vet Woes
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 April 2013 13:28
- Written by Jovana Gec
Edin Kapidzic fought in Croatia's brutal war for independence and came out alive. Carrying on in peace turned out to be harder.
Years after returning from the front lines, the former soldier from eastern Croatia hanged himself in a park in the hometown he defended during the 1991-95 conflict, part of the wider disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. Kapidzic left behind a wife and four children. But no suicide note.
