lot about the need for a new approach to enlarge men and europeanization at least in the western balkans long before it became such a trendy and emotional topic do you think there is something wrong with the model per se or do you think it's the peculiarities of the western balkans that make it difficult to implement well i think definitely it's a peculiarity of western balkans these countries are somewhat different than central europe or eastern european countries such as spall i'm hungry czech republic slovakia but i think when we speak about the model itself which was basically a conditionality model and. you didn't do this i give you that price so that is taken care of too it's a basic choice approach or you will do this if i offer you something if you don't believe there won't be and it was for you and that's how it's been working for. 20 years now it was very successful in the countries from central europe which were all over the spot i spy ring naturally to be members of the opinion doesn't really require here that well this is the 1st thing the 2nd thing is it's not applied it's

for democracy and within democracy protection of minority rights the problem is that in the western balkans . after 2000. and especially over the past the 78 or 10 years we have of the climb very visible decline in all of these crew so the market is not functioning efficiently according to. the competitive gritty of yeah we shipped them across to decline very visible to the decline. we have here are not always but we have problems with protection of minorities. in some in some places or at least some kind of problem with between majority and minority but the major problem is the will of law we simply not only serbia but everywhere in the western balkans have a judiciary and public prosecutors which are under to have the influence of politicians now i know that you specifically identify state capture that is the misuse of state funds for private and political benefit as the main obstacle to your europeanization but i would say that this kind of france seeking and self-serving behavior could be found within the court ear itself in countries like cyprus or italy do you think you're of the old

sides european officials don't apply as they did in the ninety's for example but also the western balkans leaders tried to escape when they ever day and the kind of rule that would make them follow the line now 1st of all let's agree on the terms you mentioned here a piano zation what is it specifically what values what feature make up the war of the european athens in whose image they are there is have to be remade well it's it's been set up all of the in the beginning of the ninety's and it's still like that night in $93.00 copenhagen create tyria establish are all over law functioning market economy for democracy and within democracy protection of minority rights the problem is that in the western balkans. after 2000. and especially over the past the 78 or 10 years we have of the climb better visible decline in all of these crew so the market is not functioning efficiently according to. the competitive gritty of you know we have democratic decline very visible democracy decline. we have not always but we have problems with protection of minorities. in some places or at least some kind

but the major problem is there were flaws we simply not only serbia but everywhere in the western balkans have a judiciary and public prosecutors which are under the heavy influence of politicians now i know that you specifically identify state capture that is the misuse of state funds for private and political benefit as the main obstacle to your europeanization but i would say that this kind of france seeking self-serving behavior could be found within the court ear itself in countries like cyprus or italy do you think you're of the old to europe has itself leaned up to the standards of the europeanization that it tries to hold others to you could also have mentioned the paul or the core of hungary right over the past several years right the problem with the origin of the problem is that the european union these not able to solve this problem we've been utopian you know with these comes because hungary czech republic poland are the members of the european union right now and you. capture there are you also. the theater nation of other very important create the area to have established m

we do not want to align or even the balkans which is now formally border to be strengthened and kept in place we wanted to disappear. secondly the more if we made the decision it would have to mean as you spend twice as much money as we spend today in our armed forces but we war that would be a blow to our economy were not in our state budget do not true that would mean no more we have to buy military hardware and weapons exclusively from nato countries. because only one of the reasons from you to say that all possible ways of becoming a nato member would definitely lead us into the situation room and we will lose our political autonomy. a few weeks ago there were hearings held in the united states congress with very interesting title successes and unfinished business and finance in the western balkans. you name came up a lot which i'll admit that mentions mostly in a negative context as the main obstacle to progress. we know that leaves me just a bit different and she used to be quite well in washington right madeleine albright spoke well of here. well this. is what has changed. may

in place to restrict them movements on is a merged as a new transit point to europe the northern balkan routes were shot following the 2015 refugee crisis rights groups are now warning of a new humanitarian crisis but migrants at the camps on the only ones fed up with the situation local authorities have demanded better support the e.u. has given bosnia more than $40000000.00 in aid but the local mayor says. that hasn't improved the situation of the camps or for those living around it. the situation is out of control and it's collated the telling us that even greater numbers of migrants will be pouring in next year so we had to react we can see that the managing of the migrant crisis here is not successful on all levels of power including the international organization for migration the european union and the state and hundreds of people who live nearby have called for the pleasure of the overcrowded camps they say that they feel unsafe and trapped in their own homes. one can say everything about these migrants except that they are welcome here 80 percent of them a drug addicts alcoholi

are good relations between turkey and russia could help the balkans and that's quite natural. i think that this cooperation that turkey and russia have today are a very good example of how things can get normal. but this does not of course rule out these basic political problems more of a poor story a number of the basic political problem here in bosnia herzegovina that serbs do not think that will mostly inherits a government is their country the problem. serbia is our country. so are the republicans serbska remains committed to its autonomy reporter go through the best possible relations with serbia. we do not. you want to do any harm to the bosnians which your model smudgy bosniaks must live but bosnia-herzegovina is not this it's for all of us here inside that country and that's republika srpska is exclusively ours and when they learn that lesson to knowledge is then we will be able to cooperate on mr doughty korea have to leave it here thank you very much for your time our viewers can keep this conversation going in our social media pages ask for me and the team we hope t

to the government's paralysis in bosnia and hard to hold in that the balkans still struggling with the all premises while eagerly nursing the new ones in this period of increasingly result of the another conflict well to discuss that i'm now joined by the boston circulator dodik in the express mr dodik thank you for joining us on the ship got next year will mark the turns this is anniversary of the daytona courts which back then were widely considered a diplomatic win for the clinton administration about the state interestingly now it's russia who insists that this agreement should be observed rather than the u.s. . how would you personally explain this ironic historical twist. russia is the only one who false international law and international treaty in question which undoubtedly the dayton accords are going to throw out even after clinton the north of us administration continue to derogated the agreement and it will be in line was earlier promises to the muslims and bows to governor worth of that they would calm down and subsequently make the country for muslims as they wish. they h

but spring in august for today's discussion peter van der our out is the west balkans coordinator at international organization for migration he joins us via skype from sarajevo from berlin jerald founding chairman at the european stability initiative think tank and we have. a save it she's a journalist and human rights activists she joins us via skype also from syria with thank you all of you for being with us peter let's start with you what's going on in post there why are there so many refugees why are they unable to move on from bosnia and why are they not being adequately cared for. well i think 1st of all as your other point to tell to back out is that since january of last year we've had 52000 people registered there are who being here it's you know one of those currently i would say there's about 7000 in country and it still remains population on the move so people are still managing to cross into the courageousness from italy and forwards and if you look at the numbers that means that since early last year 4344000 people managed to get to cross in to get to other parts of th

enlargement process in the western balkans is the application of the model and we. want to build on both sides european officials don't apply as they did in the ninety's for example but also the western balkans leaders tried to escape when they ever day and the kind of a rule that would make them follow the line now 1st of all let's agree on the terms you mentioned here a piano zation what is it specifically what values what features make up the war of the european athens in whose image they are there is have to be remade well it's it's been set up all of the in the beginning of the ninety's and it's still like that night in $93.00 copenhagen create tyria establish are all over law functioning market economy and democracy and within democracy protection of minority rights the problem is that in the western balkans. after 2000 and especially. over the past the 78 or 10 years we hear of decline very visible decline in all of these crew so the market is not functioning efficiently according to. competitive grittier you know we ship them across to decline very visible t

that make it difficult to implement but i think definitely it's a peculiarity of western balkans this country is a somewhat different than central europe b. or greece the european countries such as fall on hard very czech republic rose lockyer but i think when we speak about the model itself which was basically a conditionality model.

enlargement process in the western balkans is the application of the model and we can say this was a bit on both sides european officials don't apply as they did in the ninety's for example but also the western balkans leaders tried to escape when they ever day and the kind of a rule that would make them follow the line now 1st of all let's agree on the terms you mentioned here a piano zation what is it specifically what values what feature is make up the core of the european athens in whose image they are there is have to be remade well it's it's been set up all of the in the beginning of the ninety's and it's still like that night in $93.00 copenhagen create tyria establish are all over law functioning market economy for democracy and within democracy protection of minority rights the process.

that make it difficult to implement well i think definitely it's a peculiarity of western balkans these countries are somewhat. central europe your greece the european countries such for a long hard very czech republic slovakia but i think when we speak about the. model itself which was basically a conditionality model and which analogy means you didn't did they say give you that price so that is taken care of it's a basic choice approach or you will do this if i offer you something if you don't believe there won't be any towards where you are and that's how it's been working for. 20 years now it was that is successful in the countries from central europe which were all over the i spy ring naturally to be members of the opinion doesn't really work here that well this is the 1st thing the 2nd thing is it's not applied. consistently here so i would say the major problem with european is asia and the e.u. enlargement process in the west and balk and is the application of the model and we . want to build on both sides european officials don't apply as they did in the ninety's for example bu

missouri is a former agent of britain's am i 6 who has been spotted all over the world including the balkans and a middle east his connections to terrorist groups were reported back during his mission in kosovo so even without it feels a little bizarre to point the finger at russia has there been any reaction from moscow as of yet well not yet but of course we do expect money as a catalyst to come forward with some sort of a reaction of course dismissing all these accusations ask complete rubbish but the white house are quite controversial now hailed as fearless rescue workers by the western media the white house this have been accused of associating with al qaida and other terrorist groups inside syria photographs and videos show members of the civil defense organization posing with jihad it they have also been accused of staging chemical attacks used as justification by western nations to carry out

and she's off all right old grievances are raising their head again in the balkans so what does the future hold for the area once known as you can tell it discusses that next. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. tough and. way to go through a food. bank itself movie theater. plus we've got to talk it's hard not to be in the dismayed to see the work of an optimist and i think. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way to. the floor you can be found this bill frist would have been. given a lot of the. what i think is this is the fund that is all come from. young elephants have come to us. especially brutal budging incidents because the best you can so often do see their mothers be killed but also be caught up and. i do believe the elephant smile i see it in these little ones they all say show expression changes. in. the. all. along welcome to all the part the petition of yugoslavia once thought to be a close chapter has come back with a venge

we were all disabused of this because two years after the fall of the war, the war in the balkans begann europe did not appear to be the place where peace would... we will come to that, but stephanie, young generation, same as annalisa, it brought you to europe? same like starting for. i was one of 100 or so americans who got on a plane and moved to prague right after the revolution and the berlin wall came down and spent four years there and went on to moscow and lived there for several years as well. for me, coming at this, the berlin wall is such a strong image but there was so much else going on in the region at the time which overshadows that. it all began in poland around a table that led to elections there. hungary played a huge role, when they turned off the barbed wire fence which allowed some east germans to escape and then the velvet revolution in what was czechoslovakia followed by the violent overthrow of ceausescu and rumania. so there are so many changes that happened and we are focusing on... hua played a greater role? is it gorbachev? was it ronald reagan who gave the f

grievances are raising their head again in the balkans so what does the future actually hold for the region one still here discusses the worlds apart. thwack thank you thank theory thank you her 3 whitney 3rd thing. the world is driven by shaped by strong person those. who dare use thinks. we dare to ask. plan welcome to all the part of the petition of yugoslavia once thought to be a close chapter has come back that evangelists from diplomatic sabotage between serbia and costs of blood to the governance paralysis in boston and hard to hold enough the balkans i still struggling with the old graham. this while eagerly nursed the new ones in this period of increasingly result of another conflict well to discuss that i'm now joined by the boss. dodik in the express mr dodik thank you for joining us on the ship got next year will mark the turns this is anniversary of the daytona courts which back then were widely considered a diplomatic win for the clinton administration and about what the state interestingly now it's russia who insists that this agreement should be observed rather than t

erdogan opened the gates and we had an influx of syrian refugees going through greece and into the balkanshat much, and what happened? we had this sudden surge of nationalism, ethnic nationalism in response to that. so erdogan, allegedly an ally, has in a sense destabilised europe. now he is cosying up to russia. so it seems to me that nato has to serious reflect on “— me that nato has to serious reflect on —— seriously reflect on whether it should be a pan—european security umbrella and let america drift into isolation or not. nazenin, where do you stand ? isolation or not. nazenin, where do you stand? it is a problem of europe as well, which sees itself as separate from america, and you can see it in policies on the middle east. the biggest strategic danger that we are facing at the moment is the middle east, and specifically iran. the europeans arejust not trying to, you know... for them, iran has been nuclear and it is the nuclear deal, and that's it. and i think that's a big mistake, and that is affecting policy. inside europe, from the period since the collapse of the warsaw pact and

and eurasia and is responsible for a broad range of countries in the former soviet union and the balkans. between them they have several decades of national security experience serving both republican and democratic presidents and as we have heard from other dedicated public servants like former ambassador to ukraine where you have on of each former deputy assistant secretary of state george can't and vaster bill taylor lieutenant colonel alexander venkman and jennifer williams their only priority has been the security of the united states under secretary hill was witness to the smear campaign against the ambassador to ukraine marie of on of each and the efforts by some in the state department to help her in late march we have on of it reached out to hail for assistance telling him in an e-mail that the tempo of social media and other criticisms of her were such that she felt she could no longer function unless there was a strong statement of defense for of her from the state department helped push to get the state department to put out a robust full page statement of defense and praise

mediterranean or storms coming in here for at least often italy pushing across the iraqi into the balkans and yet more wet windy weather pushing into the northwest as well thursday that's like a pretty miserable day for the front stand into the low countries even into northern parts of spain opposed to looking rather disturbed temperatures struggling to get to around 10 or 11 degrees celsius that way some snow over the alps a piece of more wet weather there down into the balkans pushing across greece actually ahead of that nazi bad there's a little ray of sunshine that's down into the southeast and colder athens at $24.00 celsius trying 5 for a time anchor at around $21.00 so just notice the temperatures cooling off a touch the fullbrook rest over the next couple days 90 or 20 celsius here that's where the best of the weather will remain while wet weather coming back into italy heavy rain possibility of some flooding in some snow significant snowfall coming in across the alps a dry day up towards the northwest of here a cool $19.00 or 10 celsius for london and for paris that's what's the

and we‘ve had flash flooding, of course, across the balkans.ugh the western mediterranean, very unsettled for the islands, and more very strong winds powering through the bay into france and iberia, again more hill snow to come here. in contrast, temperatures are significantly, that‘s ten degrees below average for parts of scandinavia. and here the amber warnings still in force for the rain, but it does look drier for many tomorrow. ben has more on that later. now on bbc it‘s brexitcast. welcome, adam. joining us here in westminster. there is an election on, but we are still going to talk about lots of brexit stuff. on, but we are still going to talk about lots of brexit stufflj on, but we are still going to talk about lots of brexit stuff. i am missing you, adam. i know you do not wa nt missing you, adam. i know you do not want me to start singing only the lower, i would love to have brenda from bristol, but you cannot make it over here, so i have boris the bear from berlin. alliteration, bear from berlin, interesting. this week, it is laura.

10 or 11 degrees celsius some snow over the alps a piece of more wet weather there down into the balkans pushing across greece actually ahead of that not see bad there's a little ray of sunshine that's down into the southeast and colder athens at $24.00 celsius 5 for a time anchor at around $21.00 so just notice the temperatures cooling off a touch there will be a crest over the next couple days 90 or 20 celsius here that's where the best of the weather will remain a while wet weather coming back into italy heavy rain possibility of some flooding in some snow significant snowfall coming in across the alps a dry day up towards the northwest of here a cool $19.00 to $10.00 celsius for london and for paris that's what's the weather that we do have into central parts of the mediterranean it will set his way in full the northern parts of algeria and she does yes we go through the next couple of days and i think cooler. when any p.o.p.o. push her daughter up for adoption. she knew little of what was to come. with family been severed the traumatized child told between 2 room struggles to return

from the balkans when i was reading his work for the 1st time as a high school student it occurred to me they were like 2 peasants talking the talk about the genesis system which was the heart of the ottoman empire in a way that the military and so at school what i had learned was who were a great empire wherever we went we brought civilisation but then there were these 2 balkan peasants talking about that institution and one of them was saying thanks to the system our poor children were able to get education and go all the way up and become to sears and the other one was saying are you sure because of the system and they forgot their identity they were converted to islam without their will you know and they never saw their families again so yes they did get education but at the expense of what as a reader of lover of storytelling fiction i understood what the writer was trying to do you know can you shift your angle it's a bit stuck you know flexibility and try to see the same story through the eyes of another person and then another and keep doing this until we realise there's no su

serious at a similar temperature here as well wet some windy weather there in sioux italy and the balkans that western sort of mediterranean starting to step it over its woolsey's still getting up to $21.00 the 4 anchor and for athens not too far off that in bucharest we have that western weather continue across those western areas as we go on through sunday just notice for the north right on the line there for london and paris cold enough but at least it should be dry for a time dry course in all the parts of africa for the most probably have got some cloud of right just coming into northern areas of algeria 18 celsius and i think hooah. sponsored. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening as we turn the cameras on the media services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they would put on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate informative story out of there is not to use. it too late we already have the information they're listening post on al-jazeera. there's a problem and th

struggling to cope with the influx of thousands of people fleeing the war in policy taking the new balkanroute to europe so who should be tackling this crisis and how this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan no running water or electricity portable toilets that are rotting flimsy leaking tents and rubbish everywhere built on an old landfill site next to a mine field migrants and refugees at the jack camp so that it's a nightmare conditions are appalling and are about to get even worse with the onset of the balkan winter the.

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that's we saw during the wars of the ninety's splitting things up in the balkans very easy this is something we don't market widely but these are the facts. so don't just watch this but i. you need one ball. weighing precisely 300 grams and 4 balls of 175 grams each. next roll them out and stuck them on top of each other like the croatian flag it combines the colors of the flags of the kingdoms of gracious slavonia and in part of the may show. the small slayer is of course the e.u. with croatia being a member. now roll out the dough. take a pastry reel and make several clean and precise cuts this is something. of all the former yugoslav republic of croatia has the most disputes with neighboring countries including bosnia-herzegovina. montenegro and especially fellow e.u. member state slovenia. the 2 nations have been quarrelling over a few square kilometers of coastline in the gulf of clear on a small strip like this. once you have about $20000.00 pieces roll each of them up like you would in fact i the most famous and stylish invention ever to come out of croatia during the saudi years war

games the people of kosovo have gone out of their way to show racism is not rife in their part of the balkans. these banners have been set up in kosovo in order to welcome some very special guests the people of kosovo have a soft spot for england even though the 2 countries football teams are standing on opposite sides of the pitch in sunday's euro 2020 qualifier. these are fantastic. this this is the best thing anybody's ever done for the for the for our country cover difficult. there's a reason i think so highly of the english britain was a major ally of kosovo in its struggle for independence especially during the kosovo conflict in the late 1990 s. . the british helped us a lot during the war and afterwards and were among the 1st states to recognize us. now the people of kosovo want to show their gratitude by showing solidarity with england players such as raheem sterling who has been a victim of racist abuse at matches in eastern europe it was him that behavior towards him and buy out those and we have taken on this campaign to show that we are against racism and we will welcome the engl

at 70 metres high and 60 metres wide, it looks out across the balkan mountains.eted in 1981, it was built as a national monument to glorify the communist party. it's here because this was the birthplace of the bulgarian socialist movement. this is powerful... powerful architecture. following the collapse of the regime, the building was abandoned, and later shut off to the public as it fell into disrepair. recently, the only people to have seen inside have been a select group of photo hungry urban explorers who have broken in illegally. this is a really big deal today, the travel show is the first international tv crew to be allowed in the front doors, so we are very excited and very lucky to be able to do so. and now is the time. ready? wow! me first? you are welcome. it has seen better days, hasn't it? definitely. it cost the equivalent of $35 million in today's money to build it. since it was abandoned, the years, they haven't been kind. it's incredible. there is some work to do, obviously. but it is still very impressive. look the mosaics on top. there is the

at 70m high and 60m wide, it looks out across the balkan mountain.n 1981, it was built as a national monument to glorify the communist party. it's here because this was the birthplace of the bulgarian socialist movement. this is powerful... powerful architecture. following the collapse of the regime, the building was abandoned, and later shut off to the public as it fell into disrepair. recently, the only people to have seen inside have been a select group of photo hungry urban explorers who have broken in illegally. this is a really big deal today, the travel show is the first international crew to be allowed in the front doors of buzludzha, so we are very excited and very lucky to be able to do so. and now is the time. ready? wow! me first? you are welcome. it has seen better days, hasn't it? definitely. it cost the equivalent of $35 million in today's money to build buzludzha. since it was abandoned, the years, they haven't been kind. it's incredible. there's some work to do, obviously. but it's still very impressive. look at this 50 square metres