Good Serbs and Bad Serbs

“It is not us but Europe that needs to face reality” states Tomislav Nikolic, Serbian Radical Party leader, in a recent interview with Der Spiegel. He claims that the European Union has divided Serbia into two camps, “good Serbs, and bad Serbs.” The European Union is the one responsible for destabilizing Serbia. No, not ethnic [...]

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More Bulgarian Corruption

On May 19th, Bulgaria’s chief of police, Veselin Petrov, tabled his resignation for unknown reasons. According to the Bulgarian News Network, it is unclear whether if the newly appointed Interior Minister, Mikhail Mikov, will accept Petrov’s resignation. I imagine this has to do with the ever widening scandal regarding the Bulgarian Interior Ministry’s involvement with [...]

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Italy Cracks Down in Balkan Immigrants

The election of another center-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi in Italy has led to a swift move against illegal immigrants, most of them coming from southeastern Europe. Der Spiegel reports that while the Italian government claims no specific immigrant groups have been targeted, most of those arrested in raids have been Roma (gypsies) from [...]

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A Bit of Humor

I was reading an essay at The Media Times Review, a Bulgarian website, that included a hilarious annectdote. In all the madness and destruction that came out of the civil war in Bosnia (can it be called a civil war?) it is refreshing to find something humorous for a change.
It read:
In the early days [...]

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More Organized Crime

A cynic might consider southeastern Europe to be synonymous with organized crime. The news headlines in Albania do little to counter this. In a headline worthy of a Bulgarian newspaper these days, the Tirana Times reports that Albania’s tax chief as well as a secret policeman were arrested for the 1995 murder of a businessman. [...]

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