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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Apr 29 2014
Macedonian elections – is a crisis going to follow? Reactions from our experts
1 CommentOn Sunday 27 April, Macedonia held parallel parliamentary and early general elections. Voters overwhelmingly chose for the ruling centre-right VMRO DPMNE, thus comfortably securing another term in office for President Gjorgje Ivanov. Unfair access to media coverage and state funding are … Continue reading
Posted by: April 29, 2014
Tagged with: Ali Ahmeti, Cvete Koneska, DUI, election monitoring, Elections, fraud, FYROM, Gjorgje Ivanov, Igor Micevski, Joanna Hanson, Macedonia, media control, Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski, Nikola Gruevski, OSCE, Sašo Klekovski, SDSM, Stevo Pendarovski, VMRO-DPMNE
Apr 28 2014
Serbia has a new government: Hurrah or maybe not?
1 CommentEverything as expected: after March’s landslide victory of the Progressive Party, Aleksandar Vučić has been sworn in as Prime Minister with 198 votes in favour and 23 against last Sunday, 27 April. One month on, are his walloping promises looking … Continue reading
Posted by: April 28, 2014
Tagged with: Aleksandar Vucic, Belgrade on Water, Branislav Radeljic, corruption, Elections, Lazar Krstic, media freedom, Nebojsa Stefanovic, Nikola Selakovic, reforms, Serbia, Zorana Mihajlovic
Apr 16 2014
Dreams of Secession – the case of Sardinia
Leave a commentTheodora Vasilopoulou, a journalist at the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, asked LSEE’s Dr James Ker-Lindsay if the Canton Marittimo initiative has any chance of success – could Sardinia become the 27th canton of Switzerland? As debates on the parallels between Kosovo and Crimea … Continue reading
Posted by: April 16, 2014
Tagged with: Abkhazia, Algeria, Catalonia, Contested states, Crimea, Flanders, Greenland, James Ker-Lindsay, Kathimerini, Kosovo, Kurdistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sardinia, Scotland, Secession, Somaliland, South Ossetia, Theodora Vasilopoulou, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Apr 14 2014
Sherrill Stroschein on the importance of protests: “voting will always harm the interests of a minority”
Leave a comment“Voting is by number, and it will always harm the interests of a minority. A protest is disruptive and reflects intensity – it really shows how much you care about something.” – argues Dr Sherrill Stroschein, Senior lecturer in Politics at University College … Continue reading
Posted by: April 14, 2014
Tagged with: ethnic conflict, Hungary, languages, minorities, Romania, Sherrill Stroschein, Târgu Mureș, Tirgu Mures
Apr 8 2014
A new Balkan tragedy? The case of microcredit in Bosnia
10 Comments“The microcredit lobby got poverty wrong: it is not about supply, it is about demand”, argues Milford Bateman, Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Juraj Dobrila, Pula, Croatia. The results of Bateman’s research were presented at the second conference of the … Continue reading
Posted by: April 8, 2014
Tagged with: Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dean Sinković, Marinko Škare, microcredit, microfinance, Milford Bateman
Apr 3 2014
Ilegalja: terrorists or freedom fighters? An Albanian tale from Yugoslav times
Leave a commentDr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers is a social anthropologist whose work focuses on Albania and Kosovo. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Bournemouth. Stephanie has previously been a lecturer and Alexander Nash fellow at UCL SSEES, and is the president of the … Continue reading
Posted by: April 3, 2014
Tagged with: Albania, Ilegalja, Kosovo, Kosovo Liberation Army, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers