24.10.2010 by admin.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Orthodox church Primates and leaders of international Christian organizations are alarmed by the attacks being directed lately against the Archbishop of Albania Anastasios and hierarchs of the Church of Albania. Many clerics speak of actions attempting to denigrate Anastasios due to the tragic events in Himara last August.

This is when 27 -year- old Aristotelis Goumas was murdered. It has been stressed that he was the first to speak of murder when many were trying to attribute this event to a car accident.

The Archbishop himself advises his associates to stay calm and calls to avoid self-redress. He has been accepting supportive telephone calls from many sides, as he is an internationally recognized and accepted figure.

Latest News. According to professor Nikola Pano, International relations in USA, for Arbishop Janullatos, is the times that he, must leave from the head of Orthodox Churche of Albania. During an interview given to the Albanian newspaper “Gazeta Shqiptare”, Pano declared his opinion against any archbishop to be Greek over Orthodox Church of Albania. www.balkanweb.com

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24.10.2010 by HoisseBig.

EU money used to build illegal hotels on UNESCO site

July 6th, 2010 Lanzarote, the popular Canary Islands tourist destination, faces the possibility of losing a valuable environmental classification because of overdevelopment of some coastal areas and alleged corruption among local officials.

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Spanish islands unique “Reservation of the Biosphere” status, awarded in 1993, is under review because of hotel developers’ disregard for local, regional and national planning and environmental rules.

The UNESCO review follows a joint investigation by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Financial Times into how EU funds were used to fuel the building boom on land earmarked as environmentally sensitive.

Eight luxury hotels on the island – some of which use the biosphere status to promote their businesses – qualified for €23.6m of EU funding under schemes designed to generate employment in the area, the FT/BIJ investigation found.

More than 30 local officials and businessmen in Lanzarote have been arrested in connection with the use of illegal planning permits on the island and the EU’s anti-corruption team, OLAF, has been charged with ensuring that the EU subsidies are returned.

Lanzarote’s governing council and a regional court found as many as 24 hotels on the island, including seven that received EU funding, were in breach of local planning laws designed to protect the fragile local landscape.

Although the island’s government are obliged to inform UNESCO of any changes in circumstance that may affect their biosphere status, the organisation was unaware of the illegal hotels until it was contacted by the FT and BIJ last week.

UNESCO said these cases could jeopardise Lanzarote’s biosphere status, which has helped the island win special grants and funding, including from Brussels.

Meriem Bouamrane, UNESCO spokesperson, said: “Lanzarote had a very good application. Mass tourism was not something they were developing. They promoted sustainable tourism that was more respectful to the environment.”

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Although successive governing councils on the island have sought to control development, allegedly corrupt municipal authorities have waved through numerous hotel and residential developments which have since been declared illegal.

By Caelainn Barr, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and Mark Mulligan, the Financial Times

http://thebureauinvestigates.com/2010/07/06/lanzarote-faces-losing-its-eco-status/

Die grossen Milliarden schweren Skandale der Politik Mafia in Spanien um Bau Bereich, sind ja nicht nur wegen Marbella International gut bekannt. Wie im Balkan, in Durres, Sarande, Tirana in Albanien, in Montenegro, Bulgarien, Kroatien, überrollen regelrecht die Geldwäsche Kartelle der Internationalen Mafia die Küsten überall.

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