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Huffing and Puffing

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 07/20/2018 - 00:08
Whether it’s the Berlin Process, the recent NATO Summit, Russia in the Balkans or Bosnia’s upcoming elections, huffing and puffing seem to be all around us, even if they sometimes turn into nothing more than hot air. 
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Macedonia Referendum Talks Halt Without Breakthrough

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 17:41
Talks between Macedonia's top politicians on the planned ‘name’ referendum are to resume on Sunday or Monday – after government and opposition failed to reach agreement on Thursday.
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Bulgaria's Regulator Blocks CEZ and Nova TV Deals

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 17:13
Bulgaria's anti-monopoly body has blocked two multimillion deals, saying the buyers might achieve market dominance through a concentration of ownership in both cases.
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Montenegro Rebuffs Trump Over ‘Threat to US’ Claim

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 14:58
Montenegro said it cherishes its strong friendship with the US and insisted it is a peaceful partner after President Donald Trump described the country as a potential threat to world peace.
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Kosovo FM Awaits Belgrade’s Approval to Visit Serbia

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 13:24
Serbia is expected to decide on whether to permit Kosovo’s Deputy PM and Foreign Minister, Behgjet Pacolli, to enter the country for an event Serbia's Bosniak National Council invited him to.
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Bosnia Charges Ex-Policemen with Attacks on Bosniaks, Croats

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 13:08
Three former members of the police force in the town of Teslic in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity were charged with involvement in the wartime persecution of dozens of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 1992.
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Montenegro Threatens Penalties for Chetnik Commemorations

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 12:26
The Montenegrin authorities said they will change the law to impose penalties on anyone who stages commemorative events that praise war crimes convicts such as World War II Chetnik leaders.
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Bulgaria's Record in Protecting Investigative Journalists 'Shameful', RSF

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 12:03
New report by media freedom watchdog says Bulgarian reporters can produce investigations more easily than ever – but not publish them – and condemns the failure to prosecute offenders for intimidating journalists.
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Wartime Rape in Bosnia: A Daughter’s Search for Truth

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 11:33
Born in wartime Sarajevo to a mother who had been raped in a detention camp, then brought up by foster parents in Britain, Lejla Damon returned to Bosnia to seek the truth about her origins.
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Flying Blind: Negligence, Nepotism and Graft at Kosovo Airport

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 11:20
Whistleblowers say lives are at risk from the scale of wrongdoing at Kosovo’s only international airport.
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Macedonia Leaders Resume Talks on 'Name' Referendum

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 10:22
Macedonia’s political leaders were set to resume talks on Thursday on clearing the path towards a referendum in autumn on the historic 'name' deal with Greece.
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Croatian Football Lovers Champion Club Free of Nationalism

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 07:40
In a sport often associated with belligerent nationalism, a group of players and fans are carving out a space for a football that promotes very different values.
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Serbian Parents Demand Separate Classes from Roma

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 07:39
Some parents in the ethnically divided southern Serbian town of Bujanovac are up arms about their children attending a school where most of the pupils are Roma.
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Bosnians Keep Arguing Over New Migrant Centre

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 07:38
With only two official asylum and refugee centres, Bosnia is struggling to accommodate a growing number of migrants and refugees – but a new centre is still awaiting agreement among different authorities in the country.
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Serbia Urged to Stop Selling Arms to Cameroon

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 07/19/2018 - 07:36
After a video of executions in Cameroon featured what seemed to be soldiers using Serbian-made arms, Amnesty International has asked Serbia to stop exporting weapons to the country.
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Kosovo Meets Criteria For Visa Liberalisation, Commission Says

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 07/18/2018 - 17:59
Commissioner's confirmation that Kosovo meets all the criteria for the long-awaited offer of visa liberalisation is hailed by Kosovo President as country's best news in decades.
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Albania Signs Agreement to Search for Communist Victims’ Bodies

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 07/18/2018 - 16:53
After a lengthy delay, the Interior Ministry signed an agreement enabling the International Commission on Missing Persons to help find and identify the remains of people who disappeared under Communism.
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Serbian Security Official ‘Didn’t Command Bosnia Operation’

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 07/18/2018 - 16:02
Former Serbian deputy security chief Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court in The Hague that his client did not command an operation in western Bosnia in 1994 and 1995.
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Serbia-Kosovo Meeting Ends Without Progress

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 07/18/2018 - 14:08
The latest Brussels meeting between the Serbian and Kosovo Presidents, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, ended quickly and without visible progress towards the normalisation of relations.
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Romanian Dies in Mine's Second Collapse This Year

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 07/18/2018 - 10:57
The gallery of a coal mine in the Southern Carpathians in Romania collapsed on Wednesday morning, leaving a miner dead and one wounded, months after two men died in a similar incident.  
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