SEEMO has announced that it is deeply alarmed by alleged threats received by TV B92 journalist Sonja Kamenković from ZajeÄar, Serbia. According to information received by the South and East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe, since the end of August 2010 Kamenković has reported on the alleged violent behavior of a police officer who reportedly injured two young men.
Posts Tagged ‘central Europe’
United States Joint Forces Command Warns that Huge U.S. Debt Might Lead to Military Impotence, Default or Revolution
September 11th, 2010 |
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As I have repeatedly pointed out, the American military and intelligence leaders say that debt is the main national security threat to the U.S.As I noted in February 2009 and again last December, a number of high-level officials and experts are warning…
“Worrying media developments in Greece”
August 26th, 2010 |
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The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) expressed its concern at the statement issued by the Greek organization Revolutionary Sect. The group claimed the murder of Greek Journalist Socrates Giolias, the network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe explained.
SEEMO condemns attack on journalist
July 26th, 2010 |
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The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemnsed the brutal attack on journalist Teofil PanÄić of the Serbian weekly Vreme.
SEEMO is a Vienna-based network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI).
Defense minister: No external threats
July 16th, 2010 |
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The Western Balkans, Southeastern and Central Europe are not threatened by possible attacks by third countries, Defense Minister Dragan Å utanovac has stated.
“However, it does not mean that Europe and the Balkans, therefore Serbia too, are safe and protected,“ the minister told this week’s issue of Belgrade’s NIN magazine.
Neptune Orient Lines – Corporate moves
July 9th, 2010 |
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Detlev Kerber has been appointed president, Europe wef Aug 1
Work experience: VP, Asia Europe Trade, NOL Group; MD, Germany & Central Europe, NOL Group; VP, Trade Asia, NOL Group
Clinton begins five-nation trip in Kiev
July 2nd, 2010 |
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, at the start of a five-nation trip to central Europe and the Caucasus region. She holds talks with Ukrainian officials, including President Viktor Yanukovych, who was voted back into office earlier this year after a six-year absence.
Romanian defense strategy media reference criticized
June 30th, 2010 |
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The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) has expressed concern over the recently adopted Romanian National Defense Strategy. The network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe noted in a statement issued in Vienna on Wednesday that president of Romania initiated the making of the document which contained, among other things, serious allegations against the media.
Newspapers: The strange survival of ink
June 10th, 2010 |
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Newspapers have escaped cataclysm by becoming leaner and more focused
“PRINT is going to live longer than people think,” asserts Mathias Dopfner, the boss of Axel Springer. Perhaps it will in central Europe. The publisher of Bild and Die Welt recently recorded the most profitable first quarter in its history. The profit margin on its German national newspapers is a startling 27%. The firm is expanding into Poland. If newspapers are in crisis, Mr Dopfner says, he likes crisis.
A year ago the mere survival of many newspapers seemed doubtful. It had become clear that the young, in particular, were getting much of their news online. Readers were flitting from story to story, rarely paying. Advertising too was moving online, but not to newspapers’ websites. Rather, it was being swallowed by search engines. The classified-ad market was ravaged by free listings websites such as Craigslist. A deep recession, received wisdom had it, would surely finish off newspapers, which have high fixed costs in the form of journalists and printing presses. …
An unfinished revolution
May 20th, 2010 |
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Public life in the ex-communist world is again run by a well-connected elite. But things may be starting to change
The Europe.view column will henceforth appear as a weekly posting at Eastern Approaches, The Economist’s central and eastern Europe blog.
IN THE communist era, the countries of eastern and central Europe were run by tightly knit clans. Connections, particularly those of your parents, mattered more than ability. The same kind of people held the top jobs in the ruling party, in government, in media and in commerce and industry. One of the most potent fuels for the revolutions of 1989 was public discontent with this closed system and the unfairness and incompetence that went along with it. …
Six dead Eastern, Central Europe flooding
May 19th, 2010 |
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Parts of Eastern and Central Europe succumbed to heavy flooding as emergency services scrambled to rescue stranded people and minimize damage in towns. Areas in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Serbia were reportedly hit by the flooding caused by heavy rains. The Vistula River broke its banks at Krakow reaching a height of nearly 10 meters (33 feet), its highest level in 40 years.
First SE/Central Europe investigative journalism days
May 11th, 2010 |
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The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) has announced the First South East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days. The network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), said in a statement issued in Vienna today that the gathering will be held in Budva, Montenegro, May 24-26.
Not up in the air
April 20th, 2010 |
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Risk-management lessons from the volcanic ash cloud
A CLOUD of volcanic ash billowing slowly across Europe probably did not feature in the risk-management scenarios of many firms. As a result, companies from travel agents to Kenyan flower exporters have suddenly had to figure out how to cope as much of Europe abruptly became an aircraft-free zone.
In some ways this has turned out to be less of a problem than might have been feared. Some firms have even found a silver lining in the ash cloud. Many employees stranded in London simply spent the weekend enjoying an unexpected, sunny “volcation”. They are now taking the opportunity to meet people face-to-face whom they normally connect with only virtually, while connecting virtually with colleagues back home whom they normally deal with in person. In short: no big deal. The Economist, for one, seems to be coping just fine with its chief executive and deputy editor stranded in New York, its New York bureau chief working out of the London office and its central Europe correspondent wrestling with Mitteleuropa’s trains and autobahns. …
“More Empires Have Fallen Because Of Reckless Finances Than Invasion”
February 9th, 2010 |
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While Eric Margolis’ entire comment in the Toronto Sun is a must-read, the following two quotes really hit the nail on the head:More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion…If Obama really were serious about restoring America 
Better say nothing
February 4th, 2010 |
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The minefield of writing about Poland
POLAND is the largest and most successful of the eastern European countries. A safe enough statement? Probably not. Someone will immediately start quibbling that “eastern” Europe doesn’t exist. That will start a long argument about whether “east central Europe” or “central Europe” is the best way of describing the ex-communist region (at which point someone else will chip in and say that the term “ex-communist” is anachronistic). “Largest” is dodgy too—not least because it may prompt a discussion about the fragile and tragic foundations of Poland’s eastern and western frontiers. Ukrainians and Russians will be quick to ask, justifiably, why they have been excluded from this notional category.
Most dangerous of all is to praise the achievements of Poland’s current government, as this newspaper did recently (see article). Clearly, some readers said, the author of such an article has never been to Poland. Otherwise he would know that a small and coincidental spurt of economic growth does not make up for pervasive corruption, ineffective administration of justice, two-tier public services and a cartel-like political system in which insiders feast (literally) and outsiders starve (metaphorically). Any possibly praiseworthy reforms are either superficial and belated, or else were introduced by the previous government. …
Any Climate Treaty Which Does Not Dramatically Reduce Soot Is Not Worth the Paper It’s Written On
December 15th, 2009 |
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Preface: I studied global warming at a top university in the early 1980′s. I was taught – as Al Gore was taught in college – that temperatures are directly correlated with CO2 levels.This essay will not address the question of whether global temperatu…
America Is Repeating the Mistakes Which Led to the Fall of the Hapsburg Empire
October 30th, 2009 |
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William R. Hawkins (formerly an economics professor at Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and Radford University) argues that America is repeating the mistakes which led to the fall of the Hapsburg empire:Spain wa…
Linguistic discontents
October 29th, 2009 |
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Slovaks, Hungarians and missing data
THE row is over but the problems remain. Amid an outcry from neighbouring Hungary, and discreet pressure from other outsiders, Slovakia’s government has backed away, for the moment, from implementing its badly drafted and intrusive-sounding new language law (see article).
Despite the backdown, hopes that membership of the European Union and NATO would bring a permanent end to central Europe’s tribal conflicts and historical grudges now look over-optimistic. It would be good if all concerned—the Slovak government, Hungarians in Slovakia and Hungary’s political parties—paused for reflection about the troubling issues that divide them. But the economic crisis, and the likely victory of the tough-talking Viktor Orban and his right-of-centre Fidesz party in Hungary’s parliamentary elections next year, are among the reasons for expecting another flare-up sooner rather than later. …
EIB to finance Corridor 10
October 23rd, 2009 |
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PM Mirko Cvetković and President of European Investment Bank (EIB) Philippe Maystadt have signed a financing agreement for the construction of Corridor 10.
The signing of the EUR 384mn agreement completes the financing for the completion of the southern section of Corridor 10, the busiest highway route through Serbia, connecting central Europe with Greece and Asia.