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The 1st Serious working Week After The Summer Holidays Has Already Produced A Treasure House Of Stories Here In The Western Balkans.
The 1st heavy working week after the summer holidays has produced a wealth of stories here in the western Balkans. Some are way more serious than others, unless you live here, when they are all very serious. Here's a roundup of some of them.
Outside the old Yugoslav Fed Parliament building in the Serbian capital they are rolling up the red carpet which had been unrolled to greet representatives to the 50th birthday hit of the Non-Aligned Movement, which I wrote about here. Serbia, which hosted the gathering, is not an affiliate, but never mind that. It finds it useful to lobby over the Kosovo issue and for business.
In the aftermath of the meeting, Serbian papers are reporting that 2 states which had so far been accepted to have recognised Kosovo, now say that in fact they did not. Oman says it just, sort of, um ah, sort of stated that it wanted Kosovo in the U. N, but that's totally 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 enquiry has started in one African country against a senior official. He revealed :
"There are founded suspicions that he was given a bribe from an Albanian businessman from Kosovo in order to start the procedure to recognise Kosovo autonomy. If that investigation gives results we are expecting, 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 states find the Non-Aligned Movement's meetings handy because they enable states to lobby and network. However in a stinging commentary (behind a paywall,) at Balkan Insight Milan Misic, the Washington journalist of the Serbian daily Politika, argues that the whole shebang was mounted because Belgrade "needed something to boost its confidence". It was just a show of nostalgia for all its partakers argues Mr Misic and "dwelled on the past accomplishments of the movement. "
At the meeting the ex-Yugoslavs all sat together. They'd better be careful. People (particularly Croatia's Nova TV) are raising questions. Why Ivo (Josipovic, the president of Croatia) was spending a lot of time with Boris (Tadic, the president of Serbia). 2 men of the same age, same background, same roles, same Problems, what a scandal...
Meanwhile, as some Croatian journalists were obsessing about Ivo and Boris a small Croatian paper, the Makarska Kronika, appears to have a world-beating scoop, if true of course. In February I wrote about the close connections between the former Yugoslavia and Colonel Qaddafi. The press then wrote that his spouse Safiya was originally Sofija Farkas, a Croat with Hungarian roots from Mostar in Hercegovina. According to the paper, Mrs Qaddafi has recently been trying to buy land and property in Igrane on the Croatian Adriatic coast not 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 celebrities 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 need, I'm not sure, if she is truly a Bosnian Croat she has a perfect right to a Croatian passport and hence visa free travel through Europe.
On a sombre note, Dimitar Bechev of the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations writes about the "protracted death of democratic Albania." Discussing the political conflict which has paralysed Albania for the last 2 years he asserts that both Edi Rama, the leader of the opposition Socialists and Sali Berisha, the prime minister are the culprit. However Mr Berisha "must take the lion's share." He's hell bent, says Mr Bechev, on gaining control of all the Albanian establishments which still remain beyond his grip.
Why are normal Albanians willing to permit such de-democratisation? One reason may be that, unlike any other former Communist states, ordinary people see in the ECU nothing different from Albania. To one 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 means to be an ECU state, many Albanian baby-kissers can be excused for thinking they already live in one, or should qualify for membership."
Not quite as dramatic, but still, alarm bells have begun to ring in Montenegro too. Thomas Roser, of the Austrian daily Die Presse has written about the series of attacks on autos belonging to Vijesti, one of the country's main dailies. 4 have been torched in the last couple of months. Zeljko Ivanovic, the paper's managing editor announces that the media situation in the country is appalling and that the attacks are messages from folk connected to orgainised crime which in Montenengro have invariably been assumed to overlap with political interests that "they are stronger than the state" and thus Vijesti's reporting about such issues is purposeless. Who cares about the global economy when you can fret about media liberty in Montenegro. Watch this space, writes tagza.com.
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