The European Stability Initiative do lots of good solid analytical/policy work. Have a look at this ingenious proposal for resolving the absurd problem of Greek opposition to Macedonia’s name: How can this conundrum be resolved? It can be done through a constitutional amendment in Skopje that changes the name of […]
A London court has rejected Serbia’s application to get former Bosnian/Bosniac leader Ejup Ganic extradited to Belgrade to face charges on the infamous Dobrovoljacka Street killings in Sarajevo in 1992. The word ‘rejected‘ perhaps does not do justice to District Judge Timothy Workman’s demolition of Serbia’s case. Perhaps ‘blew to smithereens beyond […]
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How to run a railway system with startling incompetence and/or amazing system destabilizing losses? Learn from Greece: Losses at Hellenic Railways, however, continue to mount — at the rate of 3 million euros ($3.8 million) a day. Its total debt has increased to $13 billion, or about 5 percent of […]
Welcome Browser and other new readers. After reading my thoughts below, check out this piece I wrote back in 2008 about inat. If you don’t understand inat, you can’t understand Kosovo or Serbia or anything about former Yugoslavia. Sorry, but there it is. * * * * * The International […]
The legal processes surrounding the attempt by Belgrade to get former BH Presidency member Ejup Ganic extradited from London to Serbia to face war crimes charges rumble on. The latest hearing has ended. According to the Sarajevo media, judgement is expected on 27 July. Needless to say, media reports of […]
Remember the attempt by Serbia to get former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic extradited from London to Belgrade on war crimes charges dating back to the early days of the conflict in Bosnia? After a flurry of media interest when Ganic was first arrested, it all went quiet after BH Presidency member […]
I am pleased to let you know that I have joined Castle European Estates as an Advisory Board member, with a view to helping them bring significant new international investment to the Western Balkan region (ie former Yugoslavia) and beyond. I am in good company.
What did David Laws do wrong? As I understand it, he claimed back from the taxpayer (that’s you and me) a load of money for renting a room from his ‘partner’ without disclosing that he had a close relationship with said partner. The homosexual aspect has nothing to do with […]
Craig Murray rumbles in Tashkent: There is much consternation at the apparent decline of Gulnara Karimova’s multi-billion dollar company, Zeromax – which owns Uzbekistan’s most valuable economic assets … Gulnara is of course the daughter and favoured successor of dictator "President" Islam Karimov. And we all recall what an appalling piece of […]
