When a Private Contractor Just Isn’t Enough – Huffingtonpost.com
In my last post I noted that Xe Services (formerly Blackwater) is very much in the running to win a contract potentially worth as much as a billion dollars training the Afghan National Police. Whether Xe can do that well, given the past problems that …
Kosovo agency says public tenders spark corruption – Southeast European Times
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Serbia, Albania pledge cooperation despite Kosovo – Javno
BELGRADE, March 11, 2010 (AFP) – Serbia and Albania, deeply divided over the independence of Kosovo, pledged Thursday to improve their relations as they both seek to join the European Union. In the first-high level contact between the two countries …
Time for Balkan leaders to thrash out differences – Javno
Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor admitted on Thursday one of the main goals of the conference, to bring behind the same table the leaders of Serbia and its former southern province Kosovo, appeared to be “a mission impossible”. Serbia boycotts …
Kosovo deports self-proclaimed imam, closes mosque – Southeast European Times
Kosovo police arrested and deported to Albania a self-proclaimed Muslim holy man last week. Xhemajl Duka, known by the name Kastriot, had been living in the village of Marina, in the central region of Drenica. In a press release, the interior …
NATO suspends training of Kosovo security force – Associated Press
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO is suspending the training of Kosovo’s security troops after a military-style parade that broke the force’s agreement to focus only on civil emergencies, it said Sunday. The alliance called off its support for the 2,500 …
No Bulgarian Injuries, Damages in Kosovo Quake (Novinite.com)
There are no reports of Bulgarian nationals injured in the 5,0 magnitude earthquake, which was registered Wednesday afternoon in Kosovo, Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry announced, citing information from the country’s embassy in Pristina.
Slovenian PM says EU-Balkan summit appears to be … – Focus Infomation
Ljubljana. Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor said that getting Serbia and Kosovo to participate in the EU-Balkan summit “appears to be an impossible mission”, the Serbioan B92 reports. “But, there are many who believe that if someone can do …
Serbia, Albania pledge cooperation despite Kosovo (Eu Business)
(BELGRADE ) – Serbia and Albania, deeply divided over the independence of Kosovo, pledged Thursday to improve their relations as they both seek to join the European Union.
