Božidar Äelić spoke in favor of the strengthening of all forms of cooperation between the countries of the Danube region, especially in the field of economy. Addressing the Danube Summit in Budapest, Hungary, organized by the European Commission and the Hungarian government in Budapest, Serbia’s deputy PM highlighted the importance of the Danube as a river that connects and offers the possibility of speedy economic development along its entire flow, the government posted on its website.
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Tadić asks neighboring countries for cooperation
February 14th, 2010 |
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Serbia will continue to fight against organized crime, President Boris Tadić said, calling on neighboring countries to join the fight. Tadić said that Serbia expects that the countries of the region that are not as dedicated to the fight against corruption to increase their cooperation and efforts.
Microsoft Windows Azure Is Now Available in 21 Countries
February 1st, 2010 |
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Microsoft says its cloud-based Windows Azure platform is now generally available in 21 countries. Having previously offered Azure for free to attract developers, Microsoft will start charging for use of Azure starting on Feb. 2. The cloud computing arena is a potential $150 billion market in which Microsoft already faces strong competition from Google and Amazon.com, and Microsoft executives have suggested that promoting the Azure platform is a vital part of the company’s strategy in 2010 and beyond.
– The Windows Azure platform, Microsoft’s competitor in the cloud computing
arena, achieved general availability in 21 countries starting on Feb. 1. As
part of that rollout, Microsoft will begin charging for Windows Azure and SQL
Azure starting at 12:00 a.m. GMT
on Feb. 2, in order to give all cou…
Non-Binding “Sham Agreement” Reached At Copenhagen. “Rich Countries … Sought to Bribe and Bully Developing Nations”
December 18th, 2009 |
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An agreement – of sorts – was reached at Copenhagen.The Copenhagen Accord is not legally binding and – apparently – does not specify either target emission reductions or monetary contributions of various countries. Here is a copy of the actual Copenha…
“ICJ can’t tell countries not to recognize”
December 14th, 2009 |
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Slovenian President Danilo Turk says that International Court of Justice (ICJ)”will not make final conclusions about the secession” of Kosovo. This, Turk told Belgrade daily Politika, would be because recognitions of the Kosovo Albanian unilateral independence declaration are “a matter of sovereignty of every individual state”.
“All EU countries should abolish visas”
November 30th, 2009 |
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Serbia expects that those EU member-states which do not belong to the Schengen Area will also lift their visa requirements for the Serbian citizens. This is according to Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Äelić, who told B92 that his statement “primarily regards Serbia’s neighbors Romania and Bulgaria”.
“Many countries agree with Netherlandsâ€
November 25th, 2009 |
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Slovenian President Danilo Turk stated that the Dutch government was not the only one opposing the implementation the SAA between Brussels and Belgrade. He was referring to the fact that the Dutch having been blocking the implementation of the agreement pending Serbia’s full cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.
“By All Relevant Debt Indicators, the US Fiscal Scenario Will Soon Approximate [that of] Countries on the Verge of a Sovereign Debt Defaultâ€
November 5th, 2009 |
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Josh Lipton points out:The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) published a paper indicating that “by all relevant debt indicators, the US fiscal scenario will soon approximate the economic scenario for countries on the verg…
“30 countries under pressure to recognize Kosovoâ€
September 30th, 2009 |
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Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that Serbia will soon see how successful its attempts were at deterring countries from recognizing Kosovo. He told daily Danas that it would be seen in the next couple of weeks whether Serbia’s delegation at the UN General Assembly had been able to convince about 30 countries under pressure to recognize Kosovo independence not to do so.
Developing countries and global warming : A bad climate for development
September 17th, 2009 |
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Poor countries’ economic development will contribute to climate change. But they are already its greatest victims
IN LATE April Mostafa Rokonuzzaman, a farmer in south-western Bangladesh, gave an impassioned speech at a public meeting in his village, complaining that climate change, freakish hot spells and failed rains were ruining his vegetables. He didn’t know the half of it. A month later Mr Rokonuzzaman was chest-deep in a flood that had swept away his house, farm and even the village where the meeting took place. Cyclone Aila (its effects pictured above) which caused the storm surge that breached the village’s flood barriers, was itself a plausible example of how climate change is wreaking devastation in poor countries.
Most people in the West know that the poor world contributes to climate change, though the scale of its contribution still comes as a surprise. Poor and middle-income countries already account for just over half of total carbon emissions (see chart 1); Brazil produces more CO2 per head than Germany. The lifetime emissions from these countries’ planned power stations would match the world’s entire industrial pollution since 1850. …
Top 5 Countries to Buy Investment Property
August 7th, 2009 |
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With interest rates as low as they are right now, saving a nest egg for retirement with any normal savings account may seem as though your savings are standing still. The low interest rates, coupled with cheaper property prices throughout the world, mean that now is the perfect time to invest in property if you [...]
Swine flu ‘reaches 160 countries’
July 24th, 2009 |
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The swine flu virus has reached 160 countries and could infect two billion people within the next two years, the World Health Organization has said.
A senior WHO official, Keiji Fukuda, said the virus was still in its early stages and would continue to spread for some time.
Mr Fukuda said work on a vaccine was intensifying but safety could not be compromised by rushing the process.
The virus is thought to have killed almost 800 people in recent months.
Mr Fukuda, the WHO’s Assistant Director General for Health Security, said the agency had been reporting only laboratory-confirmed cases, but that this was always going to be "only a subset of the total number of cases".
"Even if we have hundreds of thousands of cases or a few millions of cases, we’re relatively early in the pandemic," he told the Associated Press news agency.
"One of the things that is relatively clear is that we will continue to see spread of the virus; even though we are now three to four months into the pandemic, this is still pretty early into the overall period," he said.
Mr Fukuda said the WHO estimates two billion people, one third of the global population, could eventually be infected.
He said the figure was a reasonable prediction, based on analysis of previous pandemics, but that it was "really impossible to predict what the future will hold".
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Mr Fukuda said officials and drug manufacturers were investigating how to speed up the process of developing a vaccine against the H1N1 swine flu strain.
But he said there could be no doubt over the safety and efficacy of the drug before it was publicly distributed.
"There is always a balance in this sort of situation. You of course want to get out vaccine and as much vaccine as possible, as quickly as possible. On the other hand there are certain things which cannot be compromised," he said.
"There are certain areas where you can make economies, perhaps, but certain areas where you simply do not try to make any economies."
The WHO says that in most affected countries, the majority of cases appear to be occurring in young people, around the ages of 12 to 17, although some reports suggest it is mainly older people who have required hospital treatment.
The organisation also said there was "accumulating evidence suggesting pregnant women are at higher risk of more severe disease".
But Mr Fukuda said the WHO "certainly has no recommendations on whether women should try to have children now".</p
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Drugs companies and poor countries: All together now
July 16th, 2009 |
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New initiatives to cure diseases of the poor world
HEALTH-CARE activists have long maintained that the system for granting patents on drugs denies the poor access to essential medicines and discourages pharmaceutical firms from collaborating to develop new ones for neglected diseases. Several initiatives announced this week, some focused on collaboration and others on openness, may help to remedy those problems.
On July 14th GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a British drugs giant, announced that it would waive patent restrictions to allow generic drugs firms to copy its HIV drugs for sale in poor countries. Notably, this waiver includes Abacavir, an advanced therapy that is used when the initial treatment for this disease fails. GSK had earlier announced that it would share its research and patent portfolios for HIV drugs with Pfizer, an American rival, in the hope of accelerating drug development in this area. …