Soccer Sparks Political Rift In Turkey’s Ruling AKP – Analysis
A massive match-fixing scandal in Turkish soccer has shifted passions from the soccer pitch to politics opening a rift between the country’s president and prime minister, driving a wedge between the president and parliament, and fuelling already heated debate about constitutional reform.At the h...
Read MoreTens Of Thousands Of Russians Join Nationwide Vote Protest
Tens of thousands of Russians turned out in cities across the country on Saturday in mass peaceful protest over recent elections they claim were rigged in favor of Vladimir Putin’s governing United Russia party, authorities said.The demonstrations, which began on Russia’s Pacific Ocean coast and...
Read MoreEU Puts Serbia’s Candidacy Bid On Hold
By Bojana BarlovacHerman Van Rompuy, the European Council President, said Brussels will decide in February whether to grant Serbia candidate status in March.Van Rompuy on Friday said Serbia had made considerable progress towards the EU by arresting Europe's most wanted war crimes suspects an...
Read MorePuzzling Developments In Trade Dispute Between Serbia, Kosovo
By Linda KaradakuThe Kosovo Assembly adopted a motion Wednesday (December 7th) on ensuring reciprocity with Serbia. Introduced by the opposition Vetevendosje Movement, it requires the government "to strengthen all state mechanisms to ensure precise implementation of reciprocity measures towards...
Read MoreTurkey: Making Mosques A Place For Women
By Dorian JonesA campaign to make Istanbul’s roughly 3,100 mosques more welcoming for women could set off a gender revolution in Turkey’s places of Islamic worship – and one that may not be uniformly welcomed."This is about mosques being a space for women," declared Kadriye Avci Erdemli, Ist...
Read MoreClaims Bosnia’s Brčko District Unsupervised
The international community should start a process to close its supervision of Bosnia’s Brčko District at its meeting next week and develop a new strategy to better help domestic institutions address governance challenges and corruption, while retaining the ability to sanction any attempts to underm...
Read MoreEU Divided Over Latest Deal To Save Eurozone
By Lisa BryantStock markets and the value the euro currency rose after most members of the European Union agreed to a new deal Friday, increasing their economic ties to save the struggling eurozone. But reaction is mixed about the agreement, cobbled together after marathon talks among European l...
Read MoreAnother EU Summit Fiasco – OpEd
When the book is finally closed on this week’s EU summit, it’ll be interesting to see what people remember the most. Will it be the proposed changes to the Lisbon Treaty, the new steps towards fiscal integration or the disgraceful behavior of David Cameron?My money’s on Cameron. The UK’s brash P...
Read MoreRussia: Total Ups Stake In Novatek To 14.09%
Total said Friday it has increased its stake in Novatek by finalizing the acquisition of an additional 2% interest in the Russian company for around 800 million dollars.Following this transaction, Total owns a 14.09% of share capital in Novatek. This transaction effective as of yesterday was fin...
Read MoreThe Euro: That Procrustean Bed – OpEd
By Adrian SalbuchiEfforts by European leaders to shoe-horn a range of diverse countries into a rigid financial cage are doomed to fail. But that’s all part of a long-term plan for a global super-currency which can only bring more hardship to ordinary working people.A question that more and m...
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