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Blind justice or a miscarriage of justice?
On 3 April 2008 the International Court for the former Yugoslavia acquitted Ramush Haradinaj, former Prime Minister of Kosovo and general of the Liberation Army of Kosovo (KLA). Acquitted along with Haradinaj was Idriz Balaj, commander of a special unit of the KLA that stands accused of having (...) Continue
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Sunday 11 May 2008 by Olivier Laboulle ,
On May 11th 2008, Serbians will be asked to visit their polling stations to constitute the national Parliament and elect a president for the second time this year. The second round of the previous elections, held on February 3rd, fielded Boris Tadić as the winner. However, the Serbian Radical (...) Continue
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It is not the man who eats the entire cake that is the fool, but the fool who gave the cake to the man. - Bulgarian proverb
A mere 13 months after Bulgaria’s accession to the EU in January 2007, the European Commission has taken decisive action and frozen Bulgaria’s funding in three different programmes. The spending holds – in the PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD programmes - follow as a result of corruption scandals in (...) Continue
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Ever since Montenegro invoked its right under the Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro to hold the May 2006 referendum that resulted in their independence, the tiny country on the Adriatic has enjoyed strong growth. Annual economic growth hovers around six percent and, according to (...) Continue
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Interview with Alexander Milinkevich
He talks with a serene calmness and wisdom that give his words the trustworthiness that distinguishes him. He listens considerately to all of my questions as if I were one of his people explaining to him their daily concerns. Then he looks at me with that kind of benevolence and hope that only (...) Continue
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On March the 18th we will be mourning the second anniversary of a lost opportunity to democratise Belarus. Mr. Lukashenko has been at the helm since 1994 and the amended constitution puts no time restrictions on the one-man rule. Even though the EU’s foreign policy project has been given more (...) Continue
- 18 March – European youth against the Belarus dictatorship!On the night of 18th-19th of March 2008 JEF (Young European Federalists) will organise a co-ordinated pan-European action in different cities across the continent to show support to the suppressed civil society and opposition movement in Belarus. JOIN US!Belarus Action 2008
- 1 January – EURO of 15Today Cyprus and Malta have given up their respective national currencies to adopt the Euro thus enlarging the Eurozone to 15 members.Read more about it here.
- December 2007 – ALL THE BEST IN 2008!Dear readers! I would like to thank you all for keeping up with our online magazine, browsing through our articles and getting involved in the forum debates. For the coming year I wish you many happy and memorable moments and hope to see you back on our site soon. Yours, Peter Matjašič, Editor-in-Chief of thenewfederalist.eu
- December 2007 – Schengen Enlargment - Europe United!The EU’s borderless zone expanded to nine new member countries - Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, which all joined the EU back in May 2004 - at midnight on Friday (21 December) in its biggest enlargement so far. Land and sea border checks between them and the other Schengen countries are now abolished, while air borders are set to follow on 30 March 2008.Read more about it here.
- December 2007 – I want my EU flag back!JEF-Europe organises a pan-European action today in more than 50 cities across Europe demaning our flag back to remind the European leaders, who are due to sign the Lisbon/Reform Treaty today in Brussels, of the missing EU symbols in the new treaty.Read more about it here.
- December 2007 – Key climate summit opens in BaliGovernments at a key UN climate summit will discuss how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the current Kyoto Protocol targets expire in 2012.Read more about it here.
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