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Kosovo: Municipal president released |
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Gora Municipal President Alija Abdi has been released after giving a statement to police. Charges are expected to be pressed against him.
Regional Police Director in Prizren Lumni Graishta told the Beta news agency that Abdi was freed after giving a statement regarding the circumstances surrounding the threats against Goranis and Bosniaks in the municipality of Dragaš.
“The police had no intention of arresting Abdi, they wanted to ask him to give a statement on the threats against members of the community for losing their personal earnings and other privelages which they receive from Serbia if they participate in the November 15 elections. Abdi also said that the institutions that are organizing these elections are not legitimate to him,” Graishta said.
Graishta reiterated that Abdi was not arrested, rather that he was taken into custody for questioning by the police.
Graishta, however, said that charges will be filed against Abdi, because it is believed that he was responsible for the threats being made.
The prosecution will decided whether it will call for an investigation and then issue an indictment based on the findings, Graishta said.
The Gora municipality in Kosovo is under the authority of Belgrade. |
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The Gora municipality is under the authority of Belgrade.
wow, this is something new to me. Just because Belgrade has some criminals on payrol, it does not mean Belgrade's hand stretches that far.
By the way, the only people that I have no sympathy at all are Goras. They don't even know what they are , who they are ,or where is their origin.
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They don't even know what they are , who they are ,or where is their origin.
(Kosova-USA, 7 November 2009 14:57)
:))) how ironic that an albanian would dare say this.
(Red_Bandit, 7 November 2009, 16:30) |
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The Gora municipality in Kosovo is under the authority of Belgrade. "
B92, did you write this nonsense or did posted it as cut and paste? Even Prishtina is "under Serbian control," they have a bunch of slackers in Gracanica claiming to be mayor and municipal leaders.
(Funny, 7 November 2009, 17:10) |
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So - Kosova-USA - it's probably very interesting news for You, that Gorani and Bosniaks from Gora municipality supported Republic of Serbia. From USA perspective - You must be very suprised, that not only Serbs banned pseudoindependent Kosovo authorities.
(Milan, 7 November 2009, 17:24) |
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The Gora municipality in Kosovo is under the authority of Belgrade.
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Ha ha ha B92 we have authotity in Pristina Tirana and Washington DC.
Where is Belgrade?
(Rocky UK, 7 November 2009, 17:32) |
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Kosovo-USA
Are you a racist?
What do you care what the Gorani do, and what makes you so angry at the situation over there?
Typhoons, flooding and droughts are ravishing the world, and yet some insignificant occurance on the big stage makes you come to a Serbian sight and flame any event.
You bring NOTHING to the table my friend.
If there's any Albanian website of equal value as B92, please link me to them.
Although, I promise, i won't waste my time with ridiculous responses.
(Pijetro, 7 November 2009, 18:02) |
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Comment from Kosovo-USA: ---By the way, the only people that I have no sympathy at all are Goras. They don't even know what they are , who they are ,or where is their origin.---
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Kosovo-USA, as long you don´t stop assassing the people for their origin, as long you will not get peace in this region. But thats a word you don´t even think about.
(robby, 7 November 2009, 18:09) |
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"By the way, the only people that I have no sympathy at all are Goras. They don't even know what they are , who they are ,or where is their origin.
(Kosova-USA, 7 November 2009 14:57)"
Talking about racist talk. Are you really suggesting that the so called Gori (or any other ethnicity) are worse or lower standing than the Albanians ?? Please go back to school or educate yourself more before making statements here. By the way. I heard a joke the other day from an american high level diplomat.
(Staff, 7 November 2009, 18:16) |
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Well done Albanians, some more harassment of non Albanians and there will be no one left in Kosovo but yourselves, which is exactly what your fascistoid regime wants.
To Kosovo-USA,
The Gorani people know exactly who they are and have no reason to lie and invent their history unlike you Albanians ups sorry Illirians, right?!
May God help us with you as our neighbours....
(TITO, 7 November 2009, 19:07) |
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I'm sure the Gora's have no sympathy for you either, Kosovo-US. Why do you put yourself above them? Who made you so important, and better than anyone? Anyway, does this Alibi guy have anything better to do with his life, than threatening people? Live and let live, Albos, your lives just may become better.
(svojgazda, 7 November 2009, 19:10) |
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I do feel sorry for the Gorani people in Kosovo. As Kosovo-USA has confirmed, they are treated as second class "citizens" by ethnic Albanians. They are a slavic race so it's not very difficult to determine their origins. They have had their municipality boundary redrawn and making them a minority. Serbia built a new school for them only for the Albanians to knock it down. They are loyal to Serbia and that is the reason they continually get harrassed.
(Zoran, 7 November 2009, 20:31) |
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Ministry to help with visits to Kosovo cemeteries |
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The Ministry for Kosovo announced that it will help displaced persons visit places they were forced out of and cemeteries where their family members are buried.
Orthodox Christians in Serbia are observing the Mitrovica zadušnice, which is a type of Serbian equivalent to All Souls Day and similar holidays for honoring the dead.
The Serbian Kosovo Ministry has secured 12 buses that will take people to locations in Kosovo, including Prizren, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, Priština, Suva Reka, Obilić and Đakovica, to visit cemeteries in which their family members are buried. |
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Anybody can just hope on the car and drive anywhere and to visit cemeteries where their loved ones are buried. Why roginize buses? Phantom Ministry loaded with phantom propaganda. no more no less
(Kosova-USA, 7 November 2009, 11:50) |
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Buses? More like armored carriers and a KFOR batallion escort is what they will need to drive safely through that dangerous crime-infected nest called the newest "democracy" of europe/Kosovo...
(Nikos, 7 November 2009, 14:44) |
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Anybody can just hope on the car and drive anywhere and to visit cemeteries where their loved ones are buried. Why roginize buses? Phantom Ministry loaded with phantom propaganda. no more no less
(Kosova-USA, 7 November 2009 11:50)
If theyre albanian they can... oh by the way when was the last time you went to a cemetery with mines laying around? actually have you ever been to a vandalised cemetery? seems all the serbian cemeteries in kosovo are. Wonder how far up your behind your underwear would be if those were albanian graves?
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I hope this minister send cleaning crews to cemeteries first to check they are no bombs waiting for grieving members of families.
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Good to see the Ministry doing something here. I have driven Serbs to various vandalized cemeteries on a few occasions just so they were not harassed or threatened, but it needs to be done on a larger scale.
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as usual, a story about helping families to visit homes and cemeteries becomes fuel for the anti-albanian haters... what a surprise (not!)
there are desecrated cemeteries throughout europe, incl serbia (a jewish one, which my frnd lives near) and certainly in germany (i've seen them) but not only, of course. it always saddens me; it is so utterly disrespectful, whatever the ethnicity or religion. who cares?! every country (incl kosovo/a), every municipality should work to keep their cemeteries in a decent and respectful shape. it is the least they can do, the least we can do for our ancestors and past generations.
as for leaving bombs and mines (since that was brought up) -- you can't imagine the killer mines left in the homes of many bosniaks that were temp. occupied (for appr 4 yrs) during the hell of the bosnian war, and very consciously left by the temp serb occupants to "greet" the original occupants upon their (post-dayton) return. i almost didn't believe it but it came up in a # of interviews we did, and i was assured that it was commonplace. many have been injured or killed by such mines, or by mines left by serb forces in bosnia, in areas never appropriately demined -- 2 children had just been killed for wandering off into such an area, before one of my visits to sarajevo. it is all documented, in case someone thinks i am spreading propaganda.
and the very conscious widespread destruction of mosques (historic, as in banja luka) and catholic churches throughout bosnia is legendary (and disgusting.)
so my point is: speak about respecting graves and cemeteries, and holy places of worship. and everyone's right to visit and worship at such sites, if they choose. and stop using these matters as just another excuse to promote ethnic hatred and intolerance.
thank you.
roberto
frisco
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there can be mines left from the Serbian Regime!
(DuplexClick, 7 November 2009, 19:08) |
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Let me guess! When these busses get to their destinations herds of hatfull local albanians will make sure they get a warm welcome.
Sad that people can't even visit cemetaries where loved ones are buried without protection. Eulex and NATO must be proud of themselves. They have created a society that is the envy of the entire continent. Don't think there is any other place on earth where dead people have less respect than in todays Kosovo.
(MikeC, 7 November 2009, 19:09) |
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Shame on you Kosovo-usa for trying to put an unrealistic spin on this matter. You know that Serbs are free to travel throughout Kosovo for fear of being attacked by Albanians. Do you remember the recent story that bombs were placed in Serbian cemeteries? You should go into politics, because you always rearrange the truth.
(kalifornia, 7 November 2009, 19:18) |
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New editors for Macedonian encyclopedia |
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The Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts (MANU) has dismissed the current team of editors and has decided to appoint a new one.
The new team of editors of the first Macedonian national encyclopedia will be formed in a month and will include scientists who are not members of the academy as well as representatives of ethnic minorities.
MANU presidency decided late on Thursday in Skopje, at an assembly meeting which lasted four hours, that "unacceptable articles had to be replaced by new ones".
The encyclopedia which was promoted about two months ago spurred ethnic Albanians in Macedonia to protest, and met with disapproval of "the ambassadors of certain western countries".
That is why MANU made the official decision in late September to stop the distribution of the encyclopedia and requested some parts to be reedited.
Those mostly refers the articles concerning the Albanian-Macedonia connections and relations, Albanians in Macedonia, Albanian leader Ali Ahmeti, aggression on Macedonia, Albanian Liberation National Army (ONA) and also Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa.
There was also a request to correct the part about the role of the British and American forces in military conflict in Macedonia in 2001.
The MANU assembly made the decision by vast majority – one academic was against, while two refrained from voting. |
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The VMRO government is petty nationalistic and engage in immature gesture politics. They have brought their country backwards in the last four years.
Gruevski & VMRO are about power and to get that they have worked out how to use nationalism (some would say jingoism) as a lowest common denominator.The Encyclopedia is one of them.
Identity and language are also important in Gruevskis false crusade.
The Fyromian language is the West-Bulgarian dialect artificially Serbised lexically in the late 40s of the past century, by Tito with Stalin's blessing - yes the "Macedonian nation" was a Comintern invention, up until then all authors themselves claimed to write in Bulgarian - from Clement of Ohrid (Kliment Ohridski) to Venko Markovski.
As for Fyromian claim being free to choose any name one wants, this is really not true when the name is in use, and the name choice implies heritage rights.
People in the West might not be conscious of all this history but we can make sure the people in the region most definitely are .
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I knew they will be sacked sooner rather then later.
Good riddence.
(Kosova-USA, 7 November 2009, 11:54) |
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The Macedonian nation is the reuslt of the futile, costly and counerproductive conflict between Serbia and Bulgaria. For the first post WWII generation the Macedonian identity was a welcome solution. It was understood as a simple "neither Serbian, nor Bulgarian". That is a normal development. R. Mesner once said: "I am an Italian citizen, but I am not an Italiam. I am neither Austrian, nor German. I am a South Tyrolian."
The Macedonian tragedy came two generations later when the young people who were brought up as Macedonians started to search for ancient roots of their nation. Now ther look rediculous from the outside but are really confused and perplexed. Trying to preserve their fragile identity they found themselves in conflict with all their neighbours.
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Leonidas, if you opinion becomes the official position of Greece and Serbia, the Balkan league (Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) could be restaured for the benefit of everybody!
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It doesn't take much to realize: 1. Albanians will totally control MK in 10 years 2. had Serbian Albanians been smarter, they could've controlled Serbia the same way if they'd participated in the political process 3. Serbian Albs will eventualy rebel against EULEX. Leonidas is right about VMRO & I hope that as Serbia continues to re-integrate KosMet via Russia's control of the EU, our prestige will inspire Macedonians to reunite with Serbia & take back control of their province.
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Leonida,
playing the bulgarian card is so common in today's "political correct" greek views.
No nation can "artificially" change their language in 40 years.
How about pronunciation ?
How come FYROMians say
Mleko, Levo, Desno just like Serbs, while eastern bulgarians say Mljako, Ljavo, Dijasno, etc??
To give a clue, i would advise you to visit western bulgaria some time (Sofia would suffice) and compare the local "dialect" with the official (eastern) bulgarian.
FYROM's cultural affinity, is clearly with their north and their east.
There are traces of FYROM folklore songs from 18th century, which demonstrated the use of a full 5-declensions case system.
Was it Tito's "intervention" as well?
Ever considered the fact that FYROM got bulgarized during the Exharchate ?
Anyways, pronunciations as you know, and i know and everybody knows cannot be altered that easily...
And FYROM's pronunciation of words is 100% Serbian (just like western bulgarian)
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How about pronunciation ?
How come FYROMians say
Mleko, Levo, Desno just like Serbs, while eastern bulgarians say Mljako, Ljavo, Dijasno, etc??
In Eastern Serbia they pronoce Reka, sneg.. in Western Serbia they prononce it rjeka, snjeg... It is still the same language.
All over the territory of Bulgaria and Macedonia there was inclanation and after a common development the cases almost droped out. There were quite a few new words introduced in Macedoniam but the grammar and the phonetics remain practically identical.
Playng Bulgarian card... It is time Serbia and Greece realise two things.
1. they are not neighbouring nations. To want a common border means only an alienation of Bulgaria.
2. This is dangerous to everybody. Without the alience with Bulgaria the Muslim forces on the Balkans become dangerously strong!
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The West trying to control what goes into the history books to suit themselves. In my opinion, get the hell out of the Balkans, and and concentrate on the problems of your own counties - which are many. I'm sure the Macedonians can take care of their own history books.
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Feith urges Serbs to participate in Kosovo elections |
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Pieter Feith said that Serbs in Kosovo could lose power in municipalities in which they make up the majority if they boycott local elections.
The EU special representative in Kosovo said that if the local Serbs do not participate in the local elections—organized by the Kosovo Albanian institutions and scheduled for November 15—they could risk losing control of the local governments in municipalities and territories in which they make up the majority population.
Feith told B92 that if there is a boycott of the elections by the Kosovo Serbs, "there will be no Serb officials named as the presidents of the Štrpce and Novo Brdo municipalities". |
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I am sick and tired of this guy, who cares what he thinks anyway. This site should not give people like that any air time.
(TITO, 7 November 2009, 16:07) |
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Again, I strongly urge Feith to go to these Serb municipalities in person and talk to the Serb community leaders. It's nice of him to give back more territory to K Serbs, it really is. But delegating from his throne in Pristina will not increase the incentive for the Serbs to vote. They're supposed to teachnically be the most institutionally and politically privileged minority anywhere in the world, right? Well throwing a couple of institutions at them and saying "here, now work with us", isn't going to cut it. If anything, these newly designed municipalities will be utilized along with the rest of Serbia, making any potential Albanian official in these parts, about as useless and ineffective as the "mayor" of Pristina (a nice guy, very jovial, but has a lot of time on his hands as one could imagine).
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Feith is an agent of the Ahtisarri Plan, therefore any advice he gives to the Kosovo Serbs is clearly not in their best interests. The Serbian people of the province only need to concern themselves with their own legitimate elections that are endorsed by the nation’s government in Belgrade.
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Sounds like ultimatum.
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Power to govern is given by the people to the government. K albs are not going to get this from the Serbs.
Hope they do show up on that day to chant "Kosovo is Serbia" not to vote.
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???? There are serb authorities in Štrpce and Novo Brdo. Like in North Mitrovica, Leposavić, Zubin Potok, Zvečan or Gračanica. They were formed after last year local elections - and they are recognized by UNMiK and EULEX.
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My advice to the Serbs of Kosovo is treat the sham 'authorities' in Pristina with the contempt they deserve by ignoring them. The American puppetmasters, who are the real power in Kosmet, are desperate for the remaining Serbs to participate in their plans so as to lend some sort of legitimacy to their surrogates. Once they participate in the vote and recognition by default, they will simply become subsumed and eventually disappear. The Albanians hope to rid themselves of every last vestige of a Serbian presence in Kosmet. Don't give them that evil satisfaction.
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CeSID: Support for EU growing thanks to visas |
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CeSIDProgram Director Marko Blagojević said that support for EU integration in Serbia is growing thanks to the announced visa liberalization.
According to Deutsche Welle radio, Blagojević said that only 14 percent of the Serbian population is against joining the EU, while 71 percent supports Serbia’s integration into the Union.
However, one of out ten citizens stated that they would not vote in a referendum for Serbia joining the EU.
Citing CeSIDresearch implemented in mid-October, Blagojević said that a large number of Serbian citizen support the EU integration of Serbia and the entire region.
Some 76 percent of Serbian citizens support Macedonia’s integration, while 71 percent support Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro joining the EU.
A smaller number of people, 62 percent, support Croatia joining the EU, while only 42 percent of the population supports the EU integration of Albania. |
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After the EU cancels the need for a visa, Serbian citizens will need a passport to travel to EU Member States. Serbian citizens cannot use their identity card to enter EU Member States.
Also, Serbian citizens will not be allowed to work and settle in EU Member States.
Romanian citizens only need their identity card to enter other EU Member States. In 2011 the identity card will no longer be needed since Romania will join the Schengen Area.
Also, Romanian citizens have the right to settle everywhere in the EU. Romanian citizens have the right to work in most EU Member States.
This is the difference between being an EU Member State and being outside the EU.
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Deutsche Welle,CESID and CESID Program Director Marko Blagojević valuable sources?
Deutsche Welle is more then well known German "EU per their ideas and wishes" propaganda machine.
Can they maybe explain us when,where and how this research-poll was done and what was the demographic structure of the "representative sample fo polulation" involved?
I do believe that "support" for EU may have increased slightly, due to Visa liberalization, but be sure not to rush in "EU optimism".
Minimum ten years of the conditioned negotiations still to come, with conditions like giving up Kosovo, Dayton Agreement and Republika Srpska and certain veto by Croatia concerning ICJ, will surely and very dramatically change the opinion of the Serbian public and majority of Serbians will settle happy with visa free travel and trade free zone with EU.
Time works for so called 'Euro-skeptics", rather called Serbian Euro-realist.
Just calling the Referendum when the time comes. though I am sure that the time will never come and answer will be clear.
Serbia will never be,and thanks God,the member of EU.
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"...In 2011 the identity card will no longer be needed since Romania will join the Schengen Area.
Also, Romanian citizens have the right to settle everywhere in the EU. Romanian citizens have the right to work in most EU Member States.
This is the difference between being an EU Member State and being outside the EU.
(Mircea, 7 November 2009 15:36)..."
>>> Sorry to disappoint you, but even being in Schengen zone, you are clearly advised to carry your ID or Passport in all the countries of Schengen zone, as you can be asked for one by Police Officers of any EU country by new tightened EU Laws aimed combating terrorism.
You are also ask to have ID or Passport on you when crossing from one Schengen country to another and it will be in the discretion of Emigration Officer is he gonna ask for it or not.
As well, if you are traveling using airplanes you will be always asked for your ID or Passport with the "check in" and you are required to have it on you and again it is in discretion of the Emigration Authorities will they ask to see it or not.
Yes, Romanian citizens do have right to settle wherever they want, but they don't have right to receive the social benefits(unemployment, medical, pension and so...) from the countries they settle if they are not working there.
For your greatest disappointment Romanian citizens are NOT allowed to work in another EU country (though it was one fo the basic ideas of EU when founded = free flow of working force).
After the admission of Eastern European countries this act was abandoned and now every and each EU country from Western Europe regulates working visas for EU members from Eastern Europe following its own agendas and needs.
As much as I am informed, and I am informed well, Romanians and Bulgarians are not allowed to work in any of Western European EU countries.
Only in the case that your qualification is needed and that Western European employer explicitly wants you, working permit can be provided and obtained.
This rule applies differently from country to country of EU Eastern Europe...some countries are better treated then the others.
Let say for example,Polish are allowed to work, following special Government Laws, in Britain, The Netherlands...and so on.
So to finalize short:
for traveling in Schengen zone you, like EU Schengen citizen, are required to have your ID-Passport with you and it may be or not requested of you to present it at any time and working permit for Eastern European EU countries is regulated in Western European EU countries per their Laws on individual country basis.
For Romanians, at this stage, no automatic free work permit in the Western EU exist.
So, at the end of the day, not a great difference between Eastern European EU member and Serbia, which may soon be having visa free travel and free trade agreement.
Finnaly with visa free travel and free trade deal every "wealthy enough" Serbian can also as Romanian EU citizen settle in any EU country as long as he, she can pay the bill. In that case permanent residence is sorted out with no problem.
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@ MIRCEA
1.Does Romania still need the government when belonging to that Paradise on earth called EU?
2. Did the EU membership change the climate for you so that people can walk around with only fig leaves covering their certain body parts not to be mentioned by their names in public?
Please let us know, we need only this information before deciding to scream in unison with you "Long live the EU"!
(Logic, 7 November 2009, 17:53) |
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Some sorosian dreamers, €USSR fanatics and serb-bashers are indeed "optimistic" at whatever move the western powers does, including bombing serbia back to stone age for the IMF & american military bases.
Serbia will never be a member of €USSR they will implode before that and romanian beggars & thiefs flooding european cities will eventually go back home, increasing the unemployment rate, so much for our €U optimistic Mircea...
(Gavrilo, 7 November 2009, 18:23) |
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everywhere in the EU. Romanian citizens have the right to work in most EU Member States.
This is the difference between being an EU Member State and being outside the EU.
(Mircea, 7 November 2009 15:36)
Which planet are you living in??
By the way, what happened to the IMF loan to Roumania, apparently it was blocked, any rational explanation?
That should be maybe your first worry...
We have already more than 200thds Serbs living in Switzerland, so I guess they have a valid passport and a valid job...., doesn't matter when you take the Zurich-Belgrade flight, Swiss, JAT or thru Germany or Austria, the planes are alwauys full, so I guess they also are having valid passport..., so it looks that indeed Serbian are travelling a lot with valid passports..., however we don't have so many Roumanians living in Switzerland, any explanation??
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SNS opposes Vojvodina statute |
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Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) deputy leader Aleksandar Vučić said that the party will not be voting in favor of the Vojvodina statute.
He said that the statute presents “the formation of a state within a state.”
Vučić said that keeping the decree on the Vojvodina science and arts academy is “frightening,” and regarding the decree for Novi Sad being the capital city of Vojvodina, he said that no countries have two capital cities.
Vučić said that it is impossible to change property titles with one piece of paper, unless you intend to have that lead to an “eventual dissolution of the state,” and criticized a decree that would allow Vojvodina to open its own offices abroad.
Vučić said that the decree not allowing the territory of Vojvodina to be changed without a referendum in which at least 50 percent of the province’s population would participate is unconstitutional, adding that the constitution calls for the citizens of Serbia to decide on the changing of a territory, not the residents of one part of the country.
“None of the big powers are insisting on this. No one is asking this of us, people. No one is abusing us, no one will pull us by our ears for that. Why is someone breaking apart Serbia, without anyone asking them to do so?” Vučić concluded, adding that the statute and its accompanying laws, as they are, will only lead to more problems. |
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Absolute agree with Vucic.
Vojvodina autonomy is referendum question, but somehow good deal of Vojvodina people presume that it is then Vojvodina Referendum.
Nope.
Question concerns very much all Serbians so Referendum should be on the level of Serbia....and the answer will be NO to the "statute" and any sort of unproportionality in regional status of Vojvodina.
This move by Pajtic, Canak and his team is genuinely bureaucratic,undemocratic and unconstitutional.
It will obviously have to wait till the next election and then when SNS wins, with its partners, Referendum must be called.
Anyhow and surely, with this "last drop", Democratic Party will never, with the stress on NEVER ever, get my democratic vote.
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Once again, Vucic demonstrates his complete ignorance of the modern world and political developments over the last 2oo years. Germany, for example has 13 capital cities
[link].
But forget the west European, protestant enemies of Serbia, your Slavic (Big) brothers, the Russians, Have 20!!!!
[link]
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"Horgoš-Novi Sad complete in 2010" |
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Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjić said that work on the highway from Horgoš to Novi Sad is expected to be completed in 2010.
Mrkonjić visited the construction site of the Beška bridge and the by-pass route around Novi Sad, where second layers of asphalt are being put down, after which traffic lights and safety nets will be installed.
According to officials of the companies working on the sites, Nimbes and Putevi Užice, the two lanes of the highway from Novi Sad to Horgoš will be finished by the determined deadline of November 29.
Mrkonjić said that the quality of the construction work is excellent, and called on the companies to participate in the announced tender for the construction of a new, 11 kilometer-long section of highway north of Novi Sad.
General Director of the Serbia Roads public company Zoran Drobnjak accompanied Mrkonjić on his visits to Corridor 10 construction sites on Saturday. |
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Good to hear that things are moving forward. However, I would advise them to start investing in highways in central serbia. Vojvodina should not get the lions share of investments, yet it does.
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Over 100 people detained at anti-U.S. rally in Iran |
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Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy.
Security forces clashed with supporters of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran on Wednesday when an annual state-organized rally marking the 30th anniversary of the storming of the U.S. embassy turned violent.
"Police arrested 109 people who created disorder and disturbed public order and security on the sideline of the rally on Wednesday," said Azizollah Rajabzadeh, head of Tehran police, IRNA reported.
"Some 62 of the detainees were jailed and the rest were released."
Iran's Revolutionary Guards and their allied Basij militia had warned the opposition not to try to hijack the rally to revive protests against the clerical establishment after June's disputed presidential election.
Defeated presidential candidates Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, who say are committed to reform, had urged supporters to take to the streets on Wednesday to protest against the government despite warnings from the security forces about "illegal gatherings."
Security forces arrested an Agence France Presse (AFP) reporter along with a Danish student in connection with the rally.
The semi-official Fars news agency said on Friday that two foreign journalists also had been arrested on November 4. The report could not be confirmed independently.
Foreign media have been banned from covering street protests since the demonstrations over the disputed June presidential vote, which the opposition says was rigged to secure President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.
The turmoil after the June 12 vote was the worst in Iran in the past three decades. Authorities deny vote-rigging. |
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It is sad to see a country like Iran with thousands years of history being reduced by the mullahs to a country of no significance and known only for its hatred
to Israel and US.
After 30 years in power the Mullahs have run out of excuses as far as Iran's economic development and well
being of its people is concerned, twisting themselves into knots trying to prove that outside forces are at work when they are facing homegrown outrage over their increasingly autocratic state and its failures.
But the most disturbing aspect of the mullah's behavior is their continuous attempts to solve the crisis by force instead of engaging in a dialog with the opposition.
I don't know what the future holds for Iran but i will take my hat off to all men and women who are risking their lives today to voice their opposition to the theocratic oppression.
(Leonidas, 7 November 2009, 13:50) |
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Grocery store workers to wear protective masks |
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Workers of the grocery store and supermarket chain Maxi will start wearing protective masks on Monday because of the swine flu epidemic.
The Delta Holding company, which owns Maxi, has secured 500,000 masks as preventive measures and ordered increased cleaning and disinfection of the stores.
The masks will be worn by workers in cities that have known cases of the virus, which are currently Užice, Kraljevo, Kragujevac, Požega, Niš and Čačak.
The company prepared a plan of action back in August for protecting the customers and employees from the swine flu and to secure a normal functioning of the stores and regular work hours despite the possibility of a pandemic, Delta Maxi stated.
In accordance with this plan, all employees had to pass a practical training course on preventive measures and recommended behavior during a pandemic.
Workers were given more than 400,000 multi-vitamin tablets and 10 tons of citrus fruit in order to increase their vitamin intake, improve their immunity, and protect the body from viruses, the company stated. |
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A bit premature of a precaution. The cashiers run more risk handling contaminated money.
Unless someone is coughing or sneezing directly in your face or direction within 3 feet the mask will provide no protection.
Good handwashing and common sense are the tools to fight the flu. It would be better to supply with hand sanitziers and Kleenex boxes.
(pss, 7 November 2009, 18:24) |
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