Features

Regulation provides loophole for fuel smugglers in Kosovo

03/10/2008

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A Serbian regulation allowing duty-free export of goods -- including fuel -- to Kosovo for Kosovo Serbs has become a loophole for smugglers.
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Turkish bloggers campaign against internet bans

03/10/2008

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Many Turks say they are fed up with restrictions on hundreds of internet sites, including YouTube, WordPress.com, Google Groups and more recently the website of a prominent British author, Richard Dawkins.
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Roundup

Business: Czech firm wins tender for Albanian power distributor

03/10/2008

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CEZ, a Czech utility, won a 102m-euro tender for privatisation of an Albanian power distributor. Also in business news: Germany's Media Markt opens a new consumer electronics store in Greece, and the European Commission will build a solar plant in northern Cyprus.
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Reportage

More than a financial crisis

29/09/2008

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Something akin to a "perfect storm" is in progress, exposing regulatory and policy shortcoming across a variety of fronts, writes European Parliament member and former Romanian Finance Minister Daniel Daianu.
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