Thursday, August 31, 2006

 

Thursday

'We Must Push Through to Goražde"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24392-2330259,00.html

Naguib Mahfouz Dead

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1484042,00.html

Nothing to do with the Balkans but one of my favorite writers! I feel very sad to hear of his death.

Disturbing Precedents of the Rwanda Court Published as Jović Fined

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18730

Slobodna Dalmacija Article on Jović

http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20060831/novosti02.asp



'Looking for L.A.' Goes to Bulgaria

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/31/film.losangeles.reut/index.html

Lillian Goes Home

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindonnewsheadlines/display.var.900939.0.an_emotional_trip_home_for_lilliana.php

Another Bulgarian Nationalist Hit with Pedophilia Charges

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68905

U.K. Government to Introduce Work Permits for E.U. Entrants

http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2006/08/31/308589/Government+to+introduce+work+permit+system+for+EU+entrants.htm

And Romania Plans to Strike Back

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68909

I can't say I blame them either.

Bulgaria Plans Ban of Religious Symbols in Schools

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68913

There is a lot they are not including on the law in this article. So I'm not going to comment except to say that such bans seldom prevent ethnic tensions.

My Proof that Ignorant, Inflamatory Political Rhetoric is Not Limeted to the Balkans!

http://www.examiner.com/a-254546~Burns_Says_Terrorists_Drive_Taxis_by_Day.html



Montenegro Ends Compulsory Military Service

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060830-115237-3604r.htm

# posted by Katja R. @ 7:37 AM
Comments:
I sympathize with Britain. It is a victim of its own openness and the fact that it is an English-speaking country.
# posted by Blogger WARchild : 8:54 PM
 
I think Owen that there's a lot to be said for what you have to say. Many times, politicians in a country they've turned to crap prefer that the bright, ambitious members of their society leave, because if they stayed and voted, none of those guys would have a job. Mexico sadly is a case in point. If the U.S. shut the border down totally, 1. it would violate the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalco, 2. It would set off a full blown revolution in Mexico.
For people from Southeast Europe, the best place to go is the U.K., and they go there. Then nothing gets fixed at home except for a few individual families getting remittances from relatives in the U.K.
That part of the whole situation is really bad, because the real solution is reform that would allow people to stay and prosper in their own countries, whether we speak of Mexicans in the U.S. or people from Southeast Europe in Britain. I feel bad for everyone but the sleezy sack of shit politicians.
I'd like to reduce them to the grinding poverty they caused their peoples.
# posted by Blogger Katja R. : 7:12 AM
 
Yes, nothing will be done if Romanians and Bulgarians (plus the inhabitants from the rest of Balkan countries) move to UK or Europe looking for job there. People should be able to stay and work in their own country - now that those countries have democracy (or "democracy"?!?), now that there is no communism, no SSSR etc. Reading the news nowdays, and your blog all I can conclude is - Europeans (rich) and Americans are comming to Balkan, buying ecerything there is to be bought, and people from Balkan are either selling and living from the money they got or - younger - running away. This is just leading nowhere!
# posted by Blogger zdenka pregelj : 7:59 AM
 
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