A year after the Romania’s biggest anti-corruption protests started, activists have found new, more creative, ways to make themselves heard.
Reporters on corruption and organised crime in the Balkans are subject to a range of different pressures and challenges – as our comparison of reporting on such cases in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia shows.
The Macedonian and Greek Prime Ministers have agreed to intensify UN-sponsored talks on their long-standing ‘name’ dispute, announcing a set of concessions aimed at showing their good faith during their first meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Youth Initiative for Human Rights activists filed a lawsuit against the Serbian Progressive Party after they were attacked while protesting against a speech by convicted war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin.
The ruling Serbian Progressive Party has opened an office at the site of a World War II concentration camp in Belgrade, drawing criticism from rights campaigners.
The European Commission on Wednesday told Romania to reconsider legislative changes that appear to put the rule of law at risk, as the country is still on probation in terms of curbing corruption.
Russia has shrugged aside Moldova's demand that the Kremlin compensate it for its 'illegal occupation' of the breakaway Transnistria region.
Bosnian minister dismisses Serbian president's claim that Bosnia asked Belgrade to arrest Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia's mainly Serb entity, Republika Srpska.
Moldova is facing worrying demographic trends, as large-scale migration and changes in people’s mentality cause sharp falls in the numbers of new-borns.
Alumni clubs are a new phenomenon in Albania – but one gathering successful former pupils of the Gjergj Kastrioti school in Durres is up and running, and gathering funds for their run-down alma mater.
Outbursts of violence, illiberal leaders and failures to reform mean Brussels must wake up to the fact that the Balkans are not headed towards EU membership but towards instability .
Eine Verbrecher Region, wo sämtliche Steuergelder spurlos verschwinden, welche vom Steuergeld von Rest Serbien lebt. Vertreter und Mörder einer reinen Terroristen Organisation, der auch vor Jahren verhaftet wurde. Most criminal terrorist in action:Jonuz Musliu – Albanian guerrilla leaders issue warnings Posted 19.5.2012 Zur Terroristen Organisation erklärt: Das Verbrecher Syndikat, kaufte damals Michael Steiner, SPD, der eine 25 Jahre jüngere Frau des Super Verbrecher Clans Gashi als System Versorgung erhielt, wie es Tradition für die Internationalen damals war. Rezzo Schlauch, Viele wurden gut versorgt, in Tirana, Kosovo, was die neue Deutsche Aussenpolitik werden sollte. STEINER: ALBANIAN NATIONAL ARMY IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION STEINER: ALBANIAN NATIONAL ARMY IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION Steiner […]
While support for US leadership has slumped in most parts of the world, the latest Gallup poll shows that Kosovars and Albanians remain America's most steadfast fans.
A group of Bosnian MPs is challenging the controversial new excise law that will increase road tolls and biofuel prices before the country's constitutional court.
Blizzards have left Romania and Moldova struggling with heavy snow, closed schools and roads, stranded motorists, power outages and delayed or cancelled flights.
Thousands of citizens attended the funeral of Oliver Ivanovic, who was shot dead on Tuesday, as he was laid to rest in the Alley of the Greats at the New Cemetary in Belgrade, Serbia.
Nach „Sokol Kociu“ der die Drogen Ringe der Albaner aufbaute auch in Deutschland ab 1992, dann der Staatssekretär von Ilir Meta: Almir Rrapo, der verhaftet wurde an das FBI ausgeliefert wurde, ebenso Brooklyn – New York, wo die Albaner Mafia des Gambino Clans u.a. Senator Eliot Engel ein Haus schenckte, Hillary Clinton im Haus der US Mafia Nr. verkehrte, gut bekannt auch mit Bill Clinton, gab es wieder 11 hochrangige Verhaftungen auch von Albanern in New York Der „Pate“ der Justiz Mafia, des Drogen Handels: Ilir Meta als „Frankenstein der Politik“ bekannt und der Patrone der Verbrecher Kartelle rund um Drogen und Frauen Handel und in Tradition: Frank Walter Steinmeier, […]
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption said in a report released on Thursday that Romania has made little progress in fighting corruption.
Bulgaria's parliament voted in favour of the ratification of a landmark friendship treaty with neighbouring Macedonia on Thursday.
Mit 15 Kugeln aus einer AK-47 Nikos und Vasilis Paleokostas Die Brüder Paleokostas (Nikos PaleokostasgriechischΝίκος Παλαιοκώστας, * 1960 in Moschofyto bei Trikala, und Vasilis Paleokostas Βασίλης Παλαιοκώστας, * 1966 in Moschofyto bei Trikala) sind Griechenlands prominenteste Gangster. Besonderes Aufsehen erregten sie durch zahlreiche, teilweise spektakuläre Gefängnisausbrüche. 1999 bis 2006: Festnahme, Verurteilung und erste „filmreife“ Flucht Vasilis Paleokostas wurde erneut im Jahr 1999 durch Zufall verhaftet, als er einen Verkehrsunfall verursachte. Er wurde zu 25 Jahren Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt und saß in Diavata, Korfu und Korydallos ein. In den Gefängnissen genoss er den Respekt der anderen Gefangenen als informeller „Gefängnisdirektor“ und gab mit seinem Verhalten zu keinen Beanstandungen Anlass. Unter großer Geheimhaltung […]
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