Poland and China: The Lesson of Two Anniversaries
Out of years of 'failure' can come success.
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Out of years of 'failure' can come success.
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Following the detention and release of one of Croatia’s most prominent politicians and an equally notable businessman, questions arise about the extent of corruption.
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The murder of a wheeler-dealer journalist could be a turning point in the fortunes of Montenegro's effective, but tarnished leader Milo Djukanovic.
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Paddy Ashdown has given the authorities in Republika Srpska two weeks to get serious about arresting indicted war crimes suspects.
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A prominent presidential loyalist takes up with the opposition in Kyrgyzstan.
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Two months after violent clashes rocked Kosovo, the UN administrator leaves his post, citing health problems.
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The EU’s new borders are there for a reason: On the other side are countries with a critical “democracy gap.”
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By declaring themselves pro-Europeans, opposition parties made a crucial U-turn in their strategy. Their strategic calculus was quite a simple one - neither more nor less can we be EU-oriented than you, Democrats. Besides, it costs us nothing. The same applies to all other strategies. As they are usually declarative, there is no reason whatsoever why not to take them over from you. Why not copy your slogans such as those about regional cooperation, fight against corruption and organized crime, social justice and, of course, state and national interests? These lofty goals being nothing but propaganda, why should we leave them to Democrats the more so since they are not even trying to achieve them? Democrats' failure was, therefore, guaranteed the same as voters' disappointment in them, all of which resulted in electoral defeat. The only alternative strategy in all this is to come up with an alternative that might put off even grudging voters.
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The victory of the Serb Progressive Party and its leader, Tomislav Nikolic, in May 2012 elections laid bare Serbia's grim reality: Serb nationalism is a constant. The international community's political engineering had reached the point after which it was ineffective. Once again it became clear that the changes in 2000 had been cosmetic and touched not the foundation of Milosevic's legacy. All attempts at changing this legacy were brutally curbed (assassination of Zoran Djindjic, consequent ruination of the Democratic Party...
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