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A missile fired from a hand-held launcher damaged a mosque in the southern Bosnian town of Mostar on Tuesday just before worshippers were due to gather for a pre-dawn Ramadan meal, officials said.
The mosque is in the Jasenica area, a Croat-majority suburb of the town which is split evenly between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. [...]
Business Week published this while I was bicycling across Switzerland. But it’s not like anything reported in the article has changed in three or four weeks.
Bucharest rivals Bangalore for availability of exceptionally gifted programmers at rock-bottom prices
Is Romania really ready for the EU? asks Cristian Lupsa in the New Republic.
SueAndNotU, a Washington DC blogger who’s been in Georgia for the last year, has more on possible escalations in and around Abkhazia.
A fascinating spectacle is unfolding in the wild, uncontrollable west of the country where parliamentarians and well-coiffed ministers are squaring off with warriors and wise men from another time. It’s as perfect an illustration [...]
The Daily Star - Politics - Ankara picks hard-line general to replace armed forces’ outgoing chief of staff
Turkey on Monday appointed a general who is expected to adopt a tougher line toward EU negotiations to replace the head the country’s powerful military, who was widely considered a moderate. The change in leadership, which was widely [...]
As expected
Not that “qualified” I don’t think. Once you’ve gone this far, turning them down isn’t politically viable. They might get a bunch of embarassing transitional arrangements instead.
My semi-informed uniformed view is that waiting until 2008 would have ultimately been better for them, though a longer wait would have been counterproductive.
The European Commission [...]
Daniel Gross: Marc Champion writes in the Wall Street Journal about Eastern Europe’s belated interest in energy efficiency.
Turkey & Kurdistan: shelling or selling? | Needlenose
Tom Spurgeon reports:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is filing an appeal of the Penguen decision that went against him; Erdogan has been extremely aggressive about using the courts against cartoonists who portray him in unflattering fashion.
Feed: A Fistful of Euros