3.8.2010 by ctstmaser.

Companies wary of investing in the Western Balkans

August 3, 2010 – 8:17 am By AUGUSTIN PALOKAJ
Aug. 3, 2010
WAZ EU Observer
BRUSSELS – Western Balkan countries are struggling to attract more direct foreign investment despite big public campaigns in western media, lower taxes and other incentives.
The EU is warning the countries that the financial crisis is not the only problem. The high level of corruption, illegal state protection of some domestic tycoons and dysfunctional judiciaries are also considerable obstacles to investment.

Several EU governments and the European Commission in its annual progress reports have complained that the backlog of cases in the courts, the inability to enforce court decisions and discrimination against foreign companies in public procurement as well as corruption in the public sector are preventing many companies from investing in the region.
Serbia is a particular problem with many foreign investors complaining about long and slow bureaucratic procedures and the poor judiciary system. For some of them, it is practically impossible to get payment even when they have a court decision in their favour. Court proceedings in Serbia take an average of eight years. More than 1.5 million court decisions have yet to be enforced. This is an unacceptable situation for those wanting to invest and work with free competition rules…..

http://serbianna.com/blogs/michaletos/?p=818

Belgrade has been selected to control the skies over the entire Balkan Peninsula

August 3, 2010 – 8:14 am Balkan Business News Correspondent – 03.08.2010

Eurocontrol, the agency responsible for air traffic control in Europe, has begun implementing its “Single European Sky” initiative which began back in 1999. The key objectives of this initiative are to restructure European airspace as a function of air traffic flows, to create additional capacity and to increase the overall efficiency of the European air traffic management system. The initiative plans to close down many air traffic control centres in Europe and leave only several in key areas of Europe. Belgrade has been selected to control the skies over the entire Balkan Peninsula. This controversial part of the initiative will begin implementation from 2012.
The construction cost of the new air traffic control centre in Belgrade amounts to 19 million Euros while, together with the new equipment, the entire project tops 90 million Euros. According to the project manager, Belgrade will have the most up to date air control centre in the world and the largest control centre in the Balkans.

Source; Ex-YU Aviation News

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3.8.2010 by Lupo.

Wie in Bosnien, Serbien, Albanien und dem Kosovo, geht nun die Moslem auch gegen diese Extrem Radikalen und immer selbst ernannten Mufits der Wahhabiten vor.

Serbian Court affirms sentences for Muslim terrorists

Jul 31, 2010

An appeals court has upheld the sentences for four Muslims from a tense southern Serbian region who were convicted of planning terrorist attacks.

The Appeals Court in Belgrade said Friday it has rejected the defendants’ appeals as groundless, confirming earlier verdict that sentenced them to up to 8 years in prison each.

The four are allegedly adherents of the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam followed by Osama bin Laden and many al-Qaida members.

The sentences ranged from four to eight years on charges of terrorism, illegal possession of weapons and alleged links with unidentified foreign terrorist groups.

They were arrested in police raids in 2007 in the Sandzak region bordering Kosovo.

July 30, 2010
Associated Press

• Bosnian Muslim fugitive still probed for war crimes

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