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Igor Dodon keeps on sniping at pro-EU government despite joining forces with ruling party on controversial electoral law.
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Igor Dodon keeps on sniping at pro-EU government despite joining forces with ruling party on controversial electoral law.
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Ignoring Zagreb’s scorn, Serbian ministers and others honor a man whose legacy is interpreted in radically different ways in each country.
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The arrest of Kanatbek Isayev might serve as a way to discredit one of the election frontrunners.
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The two allies attacked Europe’s fence-sitting stance in dramatically different ways, reflecting recent history.
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Critics worry that civil society restrictions are the new normal, but Poland and Hungary say they are simply legislating for much needed reform.
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Status of those sent for STD treatment unclear, as more allegations emerge about police torture of gays and transgender women.
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The former Georgian president calls supporters to rally in Kyiv against corruption and the arrogance of politicians.
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New era of relations touted as investments, oil prices, and Middle East strategies take center stage.
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Incidents of alleged electronic espionage provide more clues to Kremlin’s ability to employ hybrid warfare techniques against NATO countries.
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The destruction of a large ammunition depot last month underlines the vulnerability of the country’s lightly protected stockpiles of aging materiel.
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Restive Albanians, Serbs take heart from events in Spain, despite EU warnings to Catalan leaders.
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Mogul Andrej Babis accuses political rivals of setting him up to derail his swift rise to power.
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Gender Equality Index 2017 shows “snail’s pace” progress and “still a lot of room for improvement of equality between women and men.”
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Facing an intransigent parliament, Kosovo leader Thaci sought help from Tirana.
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Some Kyrgyz claim Kazakhstan is hampering border traffic in retaliation for their president’s verbal assaults on the Kazakh leader.
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Observers note procedural problems, praise orderly transfer of power.
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Samir Amin, Egyptian and French political economist of pro Marxist and anti Eurocentric orientation, argues in his five chapter book entitled “October 1917 Revolution, a Century Later”, timely published on the Commemoration eve of the 100th anniversery of the October Revolution, that great revolutions can only be delayed, and may have temporary setbacks through conservative resistance and counterrevolutions, but revolutionary progress can not be stopped. October Revolution therefore still illuminates the unfinished struggles of the peoples, the heirs of the Communism of the Third international, for the substantial realization of these goals. Amin then sets out to situate the October Revolution in a current context of the triumph of the “liberal” counterrevolution. Amin concludes that this triumph is only apparent, since the capitalist system is already on the road of its chaotic decomposition, opening the way to the possible crystallization of a new revolutionary situation.
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After war, Kosovo has made many changes in all dimensions of life in organizing the private and public life according to the progress that has been made, in Kosovo there are some occurrences that are fading the image of it . One of the occurrences that can be called as social syndrome is, corruption. With this modest work, author pretending to analyze the corruption in Kosovo that it is affecting in negative way in Interior and in Diplomatic Processes of Kosovo.
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One of the most important initiatives supporting democratic changes in Central and Eastern Europe and the political and economic transformation of countries in the region was a PHARE programme of non-refundable financial aid dedicated primarily to countries most advanced in the reforms, i.e. Hungary and Poland (Poland and Hungary: Assistance for Restructuring their Economies). It was aimed not only at the immediate support for the crisis-ridden Eastern European countries, but also at building stable structures of democratic, free-market rule of law in them. The author of the study focuses on the support that Poland received at the stage of proper preparations for membership in the EU in 1998-2003 as part of the institutional support of the PHARE IB (Institution Building) programme. The author of the study wants to show the importance and results of support projects of the PHARE IB programme at the final stage of Poland’s preparations for the membership in the EU.
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The local development issues were repeatedly discussed in the subject literature. Numerous works devoted to it focus on its objectives, factors and its measurement. Despite this, until now, a little attention has been paid to the category of local development policy pursued by local authorities. The categories of local development policies pursued by the supra-local authorities have not been formulated or discussed at all. Nevertheless, such policies are held in Poland and abroad, and their importance is growing. Thus, there is a need for their definement and characterizing for the construction of nomenclature used in academic discourse and in the practice of design and the application of these policies and in didactics as well.The purpose of this article is to answer this challenge. It opens with the presentation of the origin and the nature of localism and the idea of local development. Then the categories of the local development perceived from the local and supra-local perspectives have been formulated, as well as local development paradigm, its meaning and position in relation to other paradigms of development have been described. Based on local and supra-local perspectives of local development, the categories of local (municipal) and supra-local (regional, national and international) policies of local development have been formulated and the entities who pursue them have been pointed. Also the purpose and features of these policies, ways of their pursuing and their positions in relation to other functional and horizontal policies have been described. Next, the vertical and horizontal cohesion of supra-local policies of local development have been presented. The article uses the research methods of critical analysis of the subject literature, induction, deduction and analogy.
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