Showing posts with label Dink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dink. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Kosovo: impatience grows


Kosovo: impatience grows
Helsingin Sanomat - 23 minutes ago
With its plastic finger, the mannequin points at a transparent box one metre high containing maps and posters of Kosovo monasteries, as well as cartoons mocking the United Nations.

Kosovo: investments in waste management
ECIKS.org - 1 hour ago
Prishtina, 30 January 2007 - Four prestigious German and Swiss companies have expressed interest in building a company that recycles waste and turns it into energy in Kosovo. However, UNMIK ist delaying the decision to allow this investment.

Mojsiu calls UN to declare independence of Kosovo
Makfax - 17 minutes ago
"The wars that broke out in the wake of Yugoslavia's disintegration and the time Kosovo has spent under UN Administration confirms that the status should reflect the wish of the majority of Kosovo's population as well as the international community's ...

About that coal in Kosovo
Fistful of Euros - 3 hours ago
I say “over twenty years” because even back in the 1980s, the Kosovo coal fields were the ugly stepsister of Yugoslav energy.


Reuters AlertNet
Helping regardless of national affiliation in Kosovo
Reuters AlertNet - 6 hours ago
January 2007 saw the launch of two family strengthening programmes in Kosovo, located in the vicinity of SOS Children's Village Pristina.


Hовини.bg
RTK: Albania and Bulgaria Support Marti Ahtisaari’s
Focus News - 2 hours ago
Albania and Bulgaria confirmed their support for the plan of Marti Ahtisaari for the statute of Kosovo, RTK reports. The Prime Ministers of the two countries - Sali Berisa and Sergey Stanishev �-aid yesterday in Tirana that they support the decision ...


MRT online
Bulgaria Signs Deal for Danube Bridge
Houston Chronicle - 4 hours ago
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgaria signed a euro100 million (about US$130 million) deal on Tuesday for a new bridge across the River Danube with Spanish construction company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA.

Olive tree leaves spark frenzy in Greece, one dead
Khaleej Times - 12 minutes ago
Supermarkets on the oil-producing island of Crete and in Athens started stocking the leaves that, in some cases, cost more than the oil itself, which is renowned for its health benefits and known as liquid gold in Greece.

Ochrid Agreement is Macedonia’s Entrance Ticket for the EU: Jan ...
Focus News - 2 hours ago
‘The Ochrid agreement is the entrance ticked of Macedonia for the European Union. Ignoring and disregarding it could jeopardize the country’s membership in EU’, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary faction of PES in the European ...

Rupel says Mladic's arrest is not prerequisite for EU-Serbia talks
Makfax - 43 minutes ago
European Union will not set Ratko Mladic's arrest as a precondition for resumption of stabilization and association negotiations with Serbia, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel said. In an interview with weekly newspaper European Voice, ...

Deputy Charges Slovenia Police Over Gypsy
Romano Vod'i - 5 hours ago
Slovenia's ombudsman is charging police for unauthorized surveillance of reporters and a relocated Gypsy family, media said Wednesday.


Boston Globe
Hrant Dink: Turkey remembers
Café Babel - 5 hours ago
«‘Hrant was the perfect target for those who want to hinder the democratisation of Turkey and its entry into the European Union’, declared a reporter for Agos, the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly of which Hrant Dink was co-founder and editor in chief ...

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Status resolution approaches


BBC Bulgaria
UN proposal lets Kosovo access world bodies - sources
Scotsman - 3 hours ago
PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - A UN proposal on the future of Kosovo to be presented on Friday recommends the breakaway Serbian province be granted the right to join international bodies, political and diplomatic sources said.


US to push for quick resolution on Kosovo's future following ...
International Herald Tribune - 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON: Despite gains by ultranationalists in Serbian elections, the United States is looking for international negotiators to settle within months whether Kosovo, the restive Serbian province, will be recognized as independent.


ECIKS.org
Local Kosovo producers face problems
ECIKS.org - 3 hours ago
Prishtina, 22 january 2007 - KTV reported that following the EU membership of Bulgaria and Rumania, Kosovo producers are facing great difficulties as they have to wait several days in order to obtain a visa for Bulgaria, which is considered to be ...

Albania's economy 61.4% free
FreshPlaza - 2 hours ago
Albania is ranked 30th in a list of 41 European countries in the 2007 Index of Economic Freedom published in Washington by The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation.

Albania and the EU: Strong support, little understanding
Southeast European Times - 2 hours ago
The agreement, considered a first step towards EU membership, governs ties between the EU and Albania. It focuses mainly on enhanced political and economic co-operation as well as the creation of a free-trade area within the next ten years.

Montenegro in EU in 8 years
Visit Montenegro - 8 hours ago
He marked that in this phase joining of Montenegro in EU no one of the politicians will give precise time frames about the term of the termination of that process, which is understandable, because that process depends on a lot of factors, ...


The Observer Blog
EU, NATO call for pro-Western coalition government in Serbia
Southeast European Times - 2 hours ago
With preliminary results showing that democratic forces will dominate in Serbia's new parliament, top EU and NATO officials called on Monday (January 22nd) for the speedy formation of a government committed to the country's Euro-Atlantic integration.

Euro Welcomed to Slovenia with Fanfare
Slovenia Business Week - Jan 22, 2007
Slovenia ushered in the euro with a high-profile ceremony befitting of the keynote speakers' words about a historic event for the country as well as the whole of the EU.


Canada.com
In Turkey, mourners pay respects to slain journalist
Baltimore Sun - Jan 22, 2007
ISTANBUL, Turkey // Tens of thousands of people marched in a funeral procession for a slain ethnic Armenian journalist who had angered Turkish nationalists -- an extraordinary outpouring of support for a more liberal Turkey where people are not killed ...

EU Sets Deadline for Turkey to Open Up Its Ports
Journal Chrétien - 22 hours ago
The EU believes that a solution to the Turkish-Cypriot dispute that threatens to derail membership talks for Turkey to join the 25-member bloc is still possible with help from the United Nations.