3.11.2008 by ctstmaser.

British MEPs dissatisfied with reforms in Zagreb

03/11/2008

British Conservative representatives in the European Parliament sent a letter to Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn criticising Croatian authorities’ failure to curb corruption and organised crime.

By Natasa Radic for Southeast European Times in Zagreb – 03/11/08

Just before a new progress report on Croatia emerges from the European Commission, two British representatives in the European Parliament — Geoffrey Van Orden and Roger Helmer — wrote to EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn to warn him that Croatian authorities failed to efficiently deal with corruption and organised crime.

The EU should not hurry the accession process for Croatia, the UK politicians argued. They expressed disappointment “there is no real progress in institutional reform, establishment of the rule of law, creation of an independent judiciary, protection of property rights or prosecution of corruption at the highest levels of government.”

“Croatia’s government seeks EU accession and billions of euros for reform assistance from taxpayers in European countries. It must therefore show substantial results [first],” Van Orden and Helmer wrote.

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3.11.2008 by ctstmaser.

Germany’s Metro To Expand in Serbia

03 November 2008 Belgrade _ German retailer Metro has invested €100 million in Serbia since it started business in the country in 2004 and wants to expand further, a statement says.

Metro said it has so far opened five hypermarkets in Serbia, two in the capital Belgrade, and another three in the cities of Kragujevac in central Serbia, the city of Novi Sad, which is the capital of the northern province of Vojvodina and the southern city of Nis.

The company announced it will expand its Serbian network of hypermarkets, but stopped short of giving more details.

Metro Cash & Carry is an international wholesaler operating across Europe, Asia and Northern Africa.

It is the largest sales division of the German trade and retail giant Metro AG. It claims to be different from other large retail chains because it targets professional customers on the basis of self-service and bulk buying.

No Serb Nuke Plant for ‘Another 15 Years’

Serbia’s only nuclear reactor in Vinca

03 November 2008 Belgrade _ Serbia will not develop a nuclear power plant for at least another decade, Petar Skundric, the country’s Mining and Energy Minister says.

His remarks come amid a months-long debate in Serbia’s scientific community over whether the country should build a nuclear power plant to reduce its energy dependence from imports of power, oil and gas.

In remarks carried by Belgrade’s B92 network, Skundric said that “no one should be afraid that Serbia will be developing a nuclear plant within next 15 years.”

“From the moment the country starts to develop a feasibility study for such a power plant until its actual development, we would need at least 12 years,” Skundric said.

After the 1986 disaster in Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the then communist Yugoslavia adopted a moratorium on such development. The former country then retained only two reactors, the Krsko power plant in Slovenia and a smaller one tailored for scientific use in the Nuclear Sciences Institute at Vinca, just outside Belgrade.

As a successor of the former state, Serbia took over the moratorium after it formally adopted its new constitution in 2006.

Skundric however sought to encourage more discussion about the issue and said that that “although Serbia has such a moratorium it has no moratorium on debate about the use of such energy resources.”

He warned that Serbian public “must know that the entire Europe is dotted with nuclear power plants and that countries in the region are either building or have plans to develop such power plants.”

“The development and usage of a nuclear power plant mobilises major resources and boosts employment,” he said.

He said that Italian investors will likely develop a nuclear power plant in Albania and that neighboring Croatia mulls investments in two such projects. Balkaninsight

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3.11.2008 by Lupo.

Bei Nacht und Nebel wird der sehr tüchtige Albanische Präsident Bamir Topi durch so einen Kaspar Sejdiu aus dem Kosovo belästigt und damit Ruhe endlich ist in Mitten der Nacht, erhält er den Orden “Urdhrin Gjergj Kastriot Skenderbeu”

Sejdiu mbërrin në Tiranë, nis vizitat zyrtare
• Presidenti i Kosoves mberriti pak minuta me pare ne areoportin “Nene Tereza” dhe tani eshte ne pritjen zyrtare nga presidenti i Republikës së Shqipërisë, Bamir Topi. Kryetari i Kosoves do te dekorohet sot me “Urdhrin Gjergj Kastriot Skenderbeu”.

Topi dhe Sejdiu qëndrim unik: Kosova nuk ndahet
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