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Borut Pahor
20 March 2010
Slovenia’s Prime Minister Borut Pahor, one of the organisers of Saturday’s western Balkans conference, did not hide his dissatisfaction at the absence of some invitees from the region, Brussels and Madrid.
Brdo, near Kranj
20 March 2010 A conference, which aimed to present a common front in the region’s path towards EU integration, has been overshadowed by the boycott of the Serbian president, triggering the absence of major European politicians.
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Brdo, near Kranj
19 March 2010 A regional conference scheduled for Saturday will go forward even though Serbian President Boris Tadic will not attend the event. There are also indications that the president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, will not be present.
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Political Crisis Threatens Albania’s EU Future
Fuele: Kosovo Must Ensure Political Stability
Albania Police Foil Bank Robbery, Kidnap Attempt
Albanian Parties Fail to Compromise Over Crisis
Skopje Suggests Croatia-Slovenia Model
Fuele: Balkan Leaders Must Deliver on Reform Promises
Srebrenica Resolution in Serbia Parliament Soon
Fuele: Montenegro Faces Challenging EU Integration Phase
Romania, Bulgaria Open New Link Across Danube
Survey: Macedonians against "Skopje 2014"
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Investigation
Skull found in mass grave
09 February 2010
Years after the collapse of the Stalinist regime, many families of Albanians executed by the communists are still desperately looking for the bodies of their relatives.
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Comment
09 March 2010
In spite of its current economic troubles, the broad thrust of Greek foreign policy – on the Macedonia name dispute and other issues – will remain unaltered.
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11 March 2010 Outdated laws in the field of culture, delays in adopting new legislation a lack of transparency, insufficient budget for cultural activity, partitocracy in cultural institutions – election of leaders based on political affiliation rather than expertise, a lack of tax benefits for investment in culture, poor regulations of the art market, vague criteria for the award of funds finance in 'open competition', a lack of long term financing for projects and institutions, marginalisation of productions in the independent cultural scene.
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10 March 2010
Balkan Fellowship team members are engaged in selecting the best candidates for this year’s programme, on the topic of ‘Taboo’. The exact number of eligible applications received per country is the following: Serbia 42, Romania 27, Croatia 19, Bulgaria 15, Albania 12, Bosnia & Herzegovina 10, Kosovo 6, Macedonia 6, and Montenegro 6.
05 March 2010
Maja Hrgovic, winner of the 1st Fellowship for jounalistic exellence prize for 2009, has recently published her first book, complilation of fiction stories.
15 March 2010 On February 25th and 26th 2010, a two day conference, ‘Decentralisation of Serbia – situation, requirements and obstacles’, organised by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and Centre for Regionalism, a two-day conference was held in the Great Hall of the Novi Sad City Assembly
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28 January 2010 Life in Kosovo featured a debate on Kosovo’s visa liberalisation process and integration into European Union structures.
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26 February 2010 Belgrade, Nis - BIRN Serbia continued with training activities during February within the project of supporting the media from the South of Serbia.
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Training is BIRN’s core activity, aimed to strengthen professional capacities of journalists and media outlets across the region.
BIRN training activities are designed to build journalists professional skill to produce relevant reporting that has an impact on societies, opinion-shapers and decision-makers in the Balkans.
Justice Report is a specialist reporting agency focusing on war crimes trials taking place before local courts; development of the local legal system; and efforts to come to terms with the past.
The Minority Media Training and
Reporting Project aims to improve standards of journalism in areas of Serbia with substantial
minority populations and to improve understanding of minority issues among the
mainstream population, thereby challenging the current mood of suspicion and
misunderstanding.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
