July 21, 2008

Transition and accession

Karadzic arrested

by David Weman

How about that. Surprising the new government would go so far.

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July 19, 2008

Transition and accession

The safe and law-abiding Balkans

by Douglas Muir

Via the invaluable Osservatorio sui Balcani comes a fascinating report on crime in the Balkans. It’s by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (ONODC), and it offers some surprising conclusions:
[The] Balkans is safer than thought…
With detailed, comprehensive statistics, the report concludes that the Balkans, contrary to widespread opinion, does not have a [...]

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February 17, 2008

A Fistful Of Euros

Economic Interdependence Knits Europe Together (Perhaps)

by Alex Harrowell

Well, sort of. I somehow doubt Jean Monnet would have been thinking of this when he came up with the idea of a Europe so closely bound together by trade war would be forever impossible. Rogue Planet reports that the biggest buyer of Bosnian armaments is…Serbia. Bosnia is also the biggest supplier to Serbia. Yes, [...]

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January 3, 2008

A Fistful Of Euros

A Big Hand for Slovenia!

by Alex Harrowell

Liberation operates a clutch of good blogs; as well as AFOE Satin Pajama nominee Jean Quatremer’s Coulisses de Bruxelles, which everyone knows, there’s also an absolutely cracking blog on French and European national security issues.
They point out here that Slovenia, which took over as holder of the EU presidency on the 1st of January, is [...]

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