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The First Heavy Working Week After The Summer Holidays Has Produced A Treasure House Of Stories Here In The Western Balkans.
The first major working week after the summer holidays has already produced a plethora of stories here in the western Balkans. Some are way more significant than others, unless you live here, when they’re all serious. Here’s a roundup of a few of them.
Outside the old Yugoslav Fed Parliament building in the Serbian capital they’re rolling up the red carpet which had been unrolled to welcome representatives to the fiftieth birthday bash of the Non-Aligned Movement, which I wrote about here. Serbia, which hosted the gathering, is not a member, but never mind that. It finds it handy to lobby over the Kosovo issue and for business.
In the aftermath of the meeting, Serbian papers are reporting that two states which had as yet been accepted to have recognized Kosovo, now say that actually , they did not. Oman says it just, kind of, um ah, kind of claimed it wanted Kosovo in the United Nations, but that’s different. The West African state of Guinea Bissau claims that recognition was held up in parliament.
Vuk Jeremic, Serbia’s foreign minister adds that a criminal investigation has begun in one African country against a senior official. He revealed :
“There are set up claims that he received a bribe from an Albanian entrepreneur from Kosovo so as to start the procedure to recognise Kosovo independence. If that inquiry gives results we expect, this country will also withdraw its recognition of Kosovo independence.”
In the piece I wrote in this week’s print edition I noted that many countries find the Non-Aligned Movement’s conferences helpful because they enable countries to lobby and network. However in a stinging commentary (behind a paywall,) at Balkan Understanding Milan Misic, the Washington correspondent of the Serbian daily Politika, disagrees that the full shebang was mounted because Belgrade “needed something to boost its confidence”. It was just a show of nostalgia for all its partakers disagrees Mr Misic and “dwelled on the past achievements of the movement. “
At the meeting the ex-Yugoslavs all sat together. They had better take care. People (specifically Croatia’s Nova TV) are raising questions. Why Ivo (Josipovic, the president of Croatia) was spending so much time with Boris (Tadic, the president of Serbia). Two men of the same age, same background, same jobs, same issues, what a scandal…
Meanwhile, as some Croatian hacks were obsessing about Ivo and Boris a little Croatian paper, the Makarska Kronika, appears to have a world-beating scoop, if true for course. In Feb I wrote about the close connections between the previous Yugoslavia and Colonel Qaddafi. The press then wrote that his spouse Safiya was initially Sofija Farkas, a Croat with Hungarian roots from Mostar in Hercegovina. According to the paper, Mrs Qaddafi has just been making efforts to buy land and property in Igrane on the Croatian Adriatic coast not very far from Mostar.
Mrs Qaddafi and some of the family are now in Algeria. This summer the Balkan press has been full of stories of various celebs in diverse stages of inebriation or disrobe, from Prince Harry to Beyonc, who’ve been taking a holiday in Croatia. Whether Mrs Qaddafi fits the profile the Croats desire, I’m not sure, if she is actually a Bosnian Croat she has the right to a Croatian passport and thus visa free travel all though Europe.
On a sombre note, Dimitar Bechev of the Sofia office of the EU Council on Foreign Relations writes about the “protracted death of democratic Albania.” Discussing the political conflict which has paralysed Albania for the last two years he asserts that both Edi Rama, the leader of the opposition Socialists and Sali Berisha, the prime minister are to blame . However Mr Berisha “must take the lion’s share.” He’s hell bent, announces Mr Bechev, on gaining control of all the Albanian institutions which still remain beyond his grip.
Why are ordinary Albanians willing to allow such de-democratisation? One reason may be that, unlike any other former Red states, ordinary people see in the ECU nothing different from Albania. To the side, across the Mediterranean, is Italy, with its unique type of game-show politics ; to the south, over the mountain ranges, lies bankrupt Greece. If this is what it implies to be an EU state, many Albanian glad-handers can be excused for thinking they already live in one, or should qualify for membership.”
Not quite as dramatic, but still, alarm bells have started to ring in Montenegro too. Thomas Roser, of the Austrian daily Die Presse has written about the spate of attacks on cars belonging to Vijesti, one of the country’s main dailies. Four have been torched in the last few months. Zeljko Ivanovic, the paper’s managing editor says that the media situation in the country is dire and that the attacks are messages from folks connected to orgainised crime which in Montenengro have invariably been thought to overlap with political interests that “they are stronger than the state” and therefore Vijesti’s reporting about issues like this is useless. Who cares about the global economy when you can worry about media freedom in Montenegro. Watch this space, writes tagza.com.
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