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Turkish Addictive Soaps Operas: The Unstoppable Boom

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Turks Bewitch The Balkans With Their Addictive Soaps

Turkish soaps have replaced Latin American shows as must-sees for many TV viewers in the Balkans – tapping into nostalgia for a system of family values that people in the region have lost, and lament.

Amina Hamzic, Maja Nedelkovska, Donjeta Demolli and Nemanja Cabric in Belgrade. BIRN Sarajevo, Skopje, Pristina, Belgrade

Balkan Insight,  May 1, 2013

Turn on the TV in any part of the Balkans today and you may well tune into a Turkish soap opera.

Booming in popularity across the region, according to media research agencies, dozens of these imports are being screened daily on televisions from Albania to the Black Sea.

Sociologists explain the phenomenon, in part, as a sentimental reaction on the part of viewers in the Balkans to an old patriarchal family model that appears dead in the Balkans but which is still alive in Turkey – at least in TV shows.

Viewers that Balkan Insight talked to say they love the shows for their realistic characters, intriguing plot lines that include whole families and the lack of violence and obscenities.

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German Investors Keep Faith With Serbia

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German Investors Keep Faith With Serbia

German investors in Serbia are mostly keen to expand their business activities in the country, a new survey show.

Florian Franze, Balkan Insight, April 24, 2013

Almost 90 per cent of German businesses present in Serbia would invest in the country again, a recent survey suggested.

“Serbia is a crucial country in the Balkans for Germany, both politically and economically,” Heinz Wilhelm, German Ambassador to Serbia, said on Tuesday at the presentation of the survey results.

The survey states that the key advantages of investing in Serbia are the availability of skilled employees coupled with low labour costs.

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Revisiting Colour Revolutions

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Revisiting Colour Revolutions

Carlos González Villa, Ljubljana, April 25, 2013

Over the last years, systemic world crisis has shaped political processes and has determined global approaches of the sole superpower of the Post-Cold War. In this context, foreign policy of the United States has been focused on preserving its presence and influence in a world in which several countries and whole regions have started to take over responsibilities of their own future. Considering this, US foreign policy community and “democracy-promotion community” in Washington DC (as Thomas Carothers denominates it) have developed since the 1980s new ways of influencing political changes in the peripheral and semi-peripheral areas of the world-system. So-called “colour revolutions” in Eurasia were a consequence of this idea.

Through these events, the United States  managed to canalize internal political changes with instruments of ‘soft power‘. Revisiting this phenomena is relevant, considering its influence in recent events, like the Arab Spring, or in other cases outside the Eurasian space (a good example can be found in Venezuela)

Nevertheless, it should also be noticed that learnings of colour revolutions could still be put into practice by the United States in other parts of the world in the future.

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EC recommends start of accession talks with Serbia

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EC recommends start of accession talks with Serbia

SOURCE: TANJUG, April 22, 2013

LUXEMBOURG — The European Commission (EC) recommended on Monday that negotiations with Serbia on membership of the European Union (EU) begin.

A report published on Monday reads that “Serbia has taken very significant steps towards visible and sustainable improvement in relations with Kosovo, in line with the Council conclusions of December 2012.

“Serbia has actively and constructively engaged in the EU-facilitated dialogue with Pristina and entered discussions on the whole range of issues necessary to achieve visible and sustainable improvement in relations with Kosovo,” the report says.

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Tekstin e marrëveshjes së arritur sot në Bruksel ndërmjet Kosovës dhe Serbisë

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EKSKLUZIVE: Express sjell tekstin integral të marrëveshjes

Nga Express, 19 Prill 2013

Gazeta Express ka arritur ta sigurojë tekstin e marrëveshjes së arritur sot në Bruksel ndërmjet Kosovës dhe Serbisë.

Teksti posa ka mbërritur në redaksinë tonë dhe ne atë e sjellim të plotë në gjuhën angleze. Brenda pak çastesh, teksti do të jetë i përkthyer në gjuhën shqipe.

First Agreement of Principles Governing the Normalization of Relations

1. There will be an Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities in Kosovo. Membership will be open to any other municipality provided the members are in agreement.

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