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Slobodan Miloševic – bad man of the millennium PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 10:14

by Marko Attila Hoare

Slobodan Milošević represented the last gasp of a discredited type of politics, but he was also the harbinger of a new one – not just in the former Communist East, but also in the West. His policies ensured that Communist dictatorship would not go peacefully to its grave in Yugoslavia, as it had in most of Eastern Europe, but would instead create a spectacular conflagration, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of innocent victims before burning itself out in total defeat. Yet despite this record, or perhaps in some sense because of it, Milošević’s cause became the cause of all those across Europe and the world – conservatives of the left and conservatives of the right – for whom the idea of progress under liberal capitalism was and remains anathema.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 10:18
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Kosovo should not do any free favors to Serbia PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 07 September 2009 05:22

In its attempts to get closer to the EU, Serbia needs to establish mechanisms of cooperation with EULEX, the EU Mission in Kosovo, which it has opposed for quite some time. Serbia needs this also to get the visa liberalization with the EU. This is all fine and nice however the legitimate question being avoided is what Kosovo gets out of this?

by: Fatos Kabashi

Last Updated on Monday, 07 September 2009 14:32
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Kosovo and Serbia set for UN ICJ Battle PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 14:53

(The Sofia Echo) - The diplomatic war of attrition between Serbia and Kosovo returns to the United Nations stage on September 15 at a General Assembly meeting.

Belgrade, which is adamantly opposed to the unilateral declaration of independence issued in Pristina in February 2008, scored a point at a General Assembly meeting later that year when it won backing for a resolution referring the question of Kosovo’s independence to the World Court for a non-binding opinion.

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Kosovo is restless again PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 16:58

The international community's policy of 'supervised independence' is looking ever more untenable

By Anna Di Lellio
The Guardian

Under the "supervised independence" obtained in February 2008, Kosovo is restless again. The institutional architecture that oversees the Republic of Kosovo – an international civilian representative (ICR), the EU rule-of-law mission (EULEX), and the UN mission (UNMIK) – always looked delicate. It is now beginning to crack.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 September 2009 16:59
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