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The River Danube flows through ten countries, more than any other international navigable waterway. This provides the Danube with vast opportunities for the shipping industry in both transport and tourism. For the same reason, however, the Danube will never carry as much traffic as waterways within one or a small number of countries. The employment impact of recent constraints to navigation is difficult to quantify; however, this article aims to provide an indication. This article has been prepared over a short period and much of it is based upon semi-structured interviews undertaken along the length of the Danube at shipping companies, ports and other organisations over the past five years. Interviews were of a general nature and not specific to this article; however, all included questions on the issue of labour and other relevant semi-structured questions.
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The European Transport Workers’ Federation has co-ordinated trade union action with its affiliated members from south-east European countries since January 2003. Its objective is to make sure that a common transport policy for the region – whose main promoter is the European Union – will support rather than challenge regional cohesion as well as social, economic and political stability. For the Balkans in particular, regional stability depends on the steadiness of each and every component country. Moreover, any threat to social/economic/political instability may easily have a spill-over effect and compromise the fine balance that has been, with great effort, achieved so far in the region and its vicinity.
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The purpose of this article is to point to the social and institutional context in which the restructuring and privatisation process of the Public Enterprise Macedonian Railways – Skopje (PE MR) has taken place, and which is still in progress, as well as the readiness and the competence of the social partners to accept and implement the project for the enterprise’s restructuring and privatisation. The article points to the relevance, urgency and justifiability of the problem in all its possible aspects, including information provided to the public and public opinion about it; the real situation of the Macedonian railway system and the need for something to be done in terms of its modernisation and reorganisation; and, indeed, the technical and technological promotion of the same. Certainly, the issue of the rationalisation of the workforce is immediately connected with the reorganisation and privatisation process which has resulted in mass redundancies from work, as well as the social package used to provide economic and social compensation to those who lost their jobs as a result of the economic, technological and structural reforms. This process is also connected with the transparency and acceptability of the procedures used to carry out the scoring system as an objective procedure in order to outline those who were kept on and those who lost their jobs and, of course, the trust between the key actors in this process (government, management and the trade unions).
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Political Scientist Kenneth N. Waltz suggests that states accomplish political and military goals through economic means, and likewise use political and military means to further economic interests.
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If we are to consider the near future of Islam, we must dissect and reformulate the issue. If we analyze the future of Islam from a purely religious perspective, the answer would be clear and straightforward: one of the basic characteristics of Islam as a religion is its rigorous adherence to tradition and the rejection of development.
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New technologies, which enable cost-effective shale gas extraction, have initiated a global energy revolution. A large number of shale gas deposits located in regions outside global energy politics are making dominant gas producing countries, like Russia, face new competition. Could utilizing shale gas lead to new a foreign policy, one where energy is not a main bargaining chip?
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The integration of Muslim minorities in European Union states is a pressing issue. In many countries, as shown in the five examined in this article, friction between local inhabitants and Muslim immigrants is very strong – and therefore, problematic. The aim of this article is to assess the current situation, place political discourses into perspective and subsequently analyze the situation at hand. The unsuccessful integration of Muslims into European social structures and possible future developments to address this problem will also be evaluated.
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Sead Čamo - I ONDA ... IMAMO LI PRIČU? Ozren Kebo - SARAJEVO ZA POČETNIKE Valentin Kreševljak - KRISTOV ZNAK Semezdin Medmedinović - KOMPOZITOR NN (Koksara) - ARAPI ŠALJU POMOĆ Marko Vešović - JE LI ISLAM IŠTA PORASTAO? Marko Vešović - TRI ČUDA
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Među mnogim uzbudljivim knjigama Arthura Koestlera knjiga Janus. iz koje preIlosimo uvodno poglavlje. Vjerojatno je najdramatičnija: grčeviti pokušaj sinteze (ili sume) svih intimnih, novinarskih, literarnih, političkih, znanstvenih i filozofskih traženja na životnom putu jedne od najsvestranijih i najplodnijih autorskih ličnosti dvadesetog stoljeća. Rođen 1905. godine u Budimpešti, studirao je egzaktne znanosti i psihologiju u Beču, bio je urednik znanstvene biblioteke izdavača Ulstein u Berlinu, dopisnik vodećih evropskih listova s Bliskog istoka i iz španjolskog građanskog rata, pa zatočenik kod Franca i bjegunac, vojnik francuske Legije stranaca, pa opet bjegunac, dobrovoljac u britanskoj vojsci za vrijeme Drugog svjetskog rata te, napokon, britanski akademik, počasni doktor uglednih univerziteta, nosilac visokih literarnih nagrada, organizator najelitnijih simpozija, pokretač znamenitih literarnih, znanstvenih i političkih inicijativa. Napisao je šest romana (najpoznatiji Darkness at Noon, 1940., kod nas preveden 1975. pod naslovom Tama u podne), pet memoarsko-autobiografskih knjiga i 22 knjige literarnih, političkih i znanstvenih radova i eseja. U ranoj mladosti bio je cionist, komunist od 1931. do 1938. godine, kad je zbog moskovskih procesa raskrstio s komunizmom i idućih 20 godina posvetio publicističkom, literarnom i aktivističkom obračunu s tom ideologijom i praksom. Zatim se opet vratio znanosti i posebno se posvetio istraživanju podudarnosti i razlika između umjetničke i znanstvene kreativnosti (knjige The Act of Creation i The Ghost in the Machine). Na samom početku knjige Janus napisao je (1977. godine): "Ova je knjiga sumiranje (ili nastavak) djela što sam ih objavljivao u posljednjih dvadesetak godina, otkad sam se poslije mojih političkih romana i eseja posvetio znanosti o životu, to jest evoluciji, kreativnosti i patologiji ljudske psihe... " Ustanovivši da je obolio od leukemije, okončao je život samoubojstvom 1983. godine.
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General Špegelj već četiri godine uživa reputaciju tvrdog Jastreba" na hrvatskoj političkoj sceni, iako su njegovi istupi samo uvjetno ratoborni. Zastupnik je ideje da su za Hrvatsku nepovoljni pregovori s agresorom iz pozicija vojno slabije strane i da samo ravnoteža vojne prijetnje, koja može i ne mora biti upotrijebljena, dovodi do pravednog mira. Rat za zapadnu Bosnu u studenom 1994., koji je u hrvatskoj, bosanskoj i svjetskoj javnosti izazvao brojne još nerazriješene vojne i političke dileme, ponovno je skrenuo pažnju prema koncepcijama koje najeksplicitnije zastupa general Špegelj, kombinirajući pri tome vojno-strateški, geopolitički i politički pristup. U četvrtom broju našega časopisa, u okviru tematske cjeline "Rat ili mir u Hrvatskoj?", general Špegelj je s trojicom sugovornika već iznio dijelove svojih koncepcija, a sada smo ga zamolili da ih detaljnije razradi i argumentira s posebnim osvrtom na aktualno krizno čvorište u zapadnoj Bosni. Istovremeno, objasnio je i neke nejasnoće oko famoznog filma iz siječnja 1991. godine i oko nerealiziranih prijedloga da bude postavljen za zapovjednika vojske BiH.
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