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The First Serious working Week After The Summer Vacations Has Produced A Wealth Of Stories Here In The Western Balkans.
The 1st serious working week after the summer vacations has produced a wealth of stories here in the western Balkans. Some are way more significant than others, unless you live here, when they're all serious. Here is a roundup of a few of them.
Outside of the old Yugoslav Fed Parliament building in the Serbian capital they are rolling up the red carpet which had been unrolled to greet delegates to the 50th 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 helpful to lobby over the Kosovo issue and for business.
In the result of the meeting, Serbian papers are reporting that 2 states which had hitherto been understood to have recognised Kosovo, now say that they did not. Oman says it just, sort of, um ah, kind of claimed it wanted Kosovo in the U. N, but that is 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 received a bribe from an Albanian entrepreneur from Kosovo in order to start the process to recognise Kosovo autonomy. 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 nations find the Non-Aligned Movement's conferences helpful because they enable nations to lobby and network. However in a stinging commentary (behind a paywall,) at Balkan Insight Milan Misic, the Washington correspondent of the Serbian daily Politika, argues that the full shebang was mounted because Belgrade "needed something to lift its confidence". It was simply a show of nostalgia for all its partakers argues Mr Misic and "dwelled on the past achievements of the movement. "
At the meeting the ex-Yugoslavs all sat together. They'd better be cautious. Folks (specifically Croatia's Nova television) are raising questions. Why Ivo (Josipovic, the president of Croatia) was spending a great deal of time with Boris (Tadic, the president of Serbia). Two men of the same age, same background, same jobs, same Problems, what a scandal...
Meanwhile, as some Croatian correspondents were obsessing about Ivo and Boris a small 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 other half Safiya was initially Sofija Farkas, a Croat with Hungarian roots from Mostar in Hercegovina. According to the paper, Mrs Qaddafi has just lately been trying to buy land and property in Igrane on the Croatian Adriatic coast not far away 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 strip, from Prince Harry to Beyonc, who have been holidaying in Croatia. Whether Mrs Qaddafi fits the profile the Croats need, I'm not sure, however if she is really a Bosnian Croat she has every right to a Croatian passport and therefore visa free travel all though Europe.
On a rather more sombre note, Dimitar Bechev of the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations writes about the "protracted death of democratic Albania." Talking about the political conflict which has paralysed Albania for the last 2 years he says 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 is 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 could be that, unlike any other former Commie states, standard folk see in the EU nothing different from Albania. To the side, across the Mediterranean, is Italy, with its unique make 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 so 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 cars belonging to Vijesti, one of the nations main dailies. Four have been torched in the last couple of months. Zeljko Ivanovic, the paper's managing editor says that the media situation in the country is awful and that the attacks are messages from people attached to orgainised crime which in Montenengro have consistently been assumed to overlap with political interests that "they are stronger than the state" and thus Vijesti's reporting about issues like this is purposeless. Who cares about the global economy when you can worry about media liberty in Montenegro. Watch this space, writes tagza.com.
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