Word: balkanization
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...Commission, the E.U.'s executive branch, accompanied its damning report on life in the Balkan nation today with the announcement that it is freezing E.U. aid worth nearly $790 million, stripping two Bulgarian agencies of the right to manage E.U. funds, and will order Sofia to write a new penal code to deliver more effective justice. "The fight against high-level corruption and organized crime is not producing results," the Commission said in its report. "Corruption and fraud is affecting the delivery of E.U. financial assistance ... A clear strategy to cleanse the system is needed." A separate report...
When a group of men calling themselves Descendants of the Serbian Fighters From the 1912-20 Balkan Wars congregates for a ritual burning of the U.S. flag, most of the patrons of La Dolce Vita don't even bother to turn around. The morning sun is glorious on the terrace of the split-level bar overlooking the Ibar River, and the young men in black T-shirts are content to smoke their Marlboros and nurse their cokes, eyeing the more prosperous opposite bank of the river. They never cross the bridge, of course, because the Ibar marks the dividing line...
...former Yugoslavia in The Hague, even threatened to impeach Tadic immediately after the elections and try him for high treason. They also vowed to root out other pro-European "traitors" from political scene and form a strong bond with Russia, which might have turned Serbia into a Balkan version of Belarus...
...those who kill their neighbors if we don’t look at them,” he said. “Otherwise we would never see why these disasters are repeated in human history.” Although much of his interest in genocide was sparked by the Balkan wars of the 1990s, Forgács decided not to be a contemporary documentarian and to focus instead on past events that shed light on the present. “I wouldn’t go to Bosnia,” he said. “There are more devoted...
There aren't many people who can go to work expecting appreciative calls from countries, but Ross can, and Kosovo is the latest place to owe him a debt of gratitude. The newly independent Balkan state was one of the first clients he took on when he started Independent Diplomat (ID), a nonprofit organization that helps marginalized governments and political groups maneuver through the complex, secretive machine of international diplomacy. In a world in which rich, powerful countries make decisions for everyone else, Ross, 41, reckoned that there must be a better way to do things and built a small...