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The Trans Dinarica is a cycling route that spans 3,000 miles and connects eight countries in the Western Balkans. It is currently under development and is expected to be completed in July 2024. The route is designed for experienced touring cyclists and will include accommodations, restaurants, and services along the way. The development of the route aims to promote sustainable tourism and benefit local communities. It has received recognition from various media outlets and is seen as a potential sustainable tourism engine for the region. The development of the route has been supported by international partners and focuses on community-based sustainability. [Extracted from the article]

A new report discusses research findings on finance, specifically focusing on the process of financial integration and its impact on national economies. The study analyzes the integration of the banking sector in the Republic of Serbia, examining its structure and concentration and competition indicators. The research also includes an observation of profitability indicators in Western Balkan countries. The report provides valuable insights into the effects of financial integration on economies and offers a comprehensive analysis of the banking sector in Serbia. [Extracted from the article]

The culture of the Romanians living in Homolje and, more widely in Timoc, is the most archaic aspect of spirituality, not only within the Balkan Peninsula but across our continent. One of the numerous valuable objects of our people's ethnological treasure is the mythology and ancient customs, which date from a long time before Christianity, but which have survived until the present, until the beginning of the 21th century, in the villages that settled in the heart of the mountains of Homolje. Researching the Romanian traditional culture in northeastern Serbia, we find a unique tendency of this population towards characters of mystical property, which, in their system of popular religion, have the role of the mediator between the villagers as a religious community and a sacred world, a world of fairies, divine and mythical beings and ancestral souls. Trance is a specific state of consciousness in women, who people refer to as "muieri care cad" [women that fall] and "vrjătuori" [witches]. It is the product of the visit, that is, the obsession by mythical female beings, for which people have a euphemistic name, namely THEM. The central theme of this paper are mythical beings THEM, as a cause of exaltation, while the phenomenon of the trance in "falling" women is only one part related to it, necessary in the attempt to complete the mosaic, which will help us to at least clarify the religious rituals and beliefs of the Romanians in Serbia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The central argument of this paper is that political disengagement or apathy cannot be construed as young people's "problems". They are in fact problems resulting from schooling of young people in institutions where technical skills are given priority over real-life issues. The resulting lack of participation and informal learning opportunities in young people's lives weakens public institutions and renders them unsustainable. It is argued that learning and participation are key processes for political inclusion and integration of young people in Turkey, across Europe and elsewhere. A model of sustainable civic engagement (Public Achievement) is presented. Public Achievement has been successful in Turkey, the US, N. Ireland, Palestine, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Balkans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article criticizes U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's plea to send NATO troops to the Balkan region. The idea seems even more irrelevant especially after bombing of a hospital, prison and three diplomatic missions. Since NATO commanders have admitted they failed to foresee the horrifying outcome of the air war, this is the moment to spell out the likely consequences of a ground invasion. While the invasion force assembles in Albania, Serbian paramilitaries will increase the pace of expulsions and killings of Kosovars and engage in a scorched-earth retreat. NATO's killing of civilians will accelerate, driven by a strategic decision to break the population's will.

The article focuses on the large number of people in the Balkan region who own firearms, according to a ranking of the top 25 countries in terms of firearm ownership. Topics include a briefing paper by independent research project Small Arms Survey regarding firearm ownership in Serbia and Montenegro, vast stocks of arms in the region, and private guns per head in Serbia.

Keywords for this news article include: Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia, Europe, Psychology. Keywords: Psychology EN Psychology 1003 1003 1 06/26/23 20230630 NES 230630 2023 JUL 2 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA -- Investigators publish new report on psychology. [Extracted from the article]

The article aims to assess a change in the EU's soft power in the Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership states in the light of the crises the bloc has undergone in recent years. Generally agreeing with the common argument that the EU's attractiveness for those countries has decreased, the author challenges the popular wisdom that such a decrease is likely to reverse those states' pro-EU foreign policy orientations. To prove it, the author applies Joseph Nye's and Alexander Vuving's "power currencies" approach to operationalize soft power, considering the bloc's attraction as a combination of "brilliance" (the actor's relationship with its work), "benignity" (the actor's relationship with other actors) and "beauty" (the actor's relationship with values and ideas). Elaborating on the crises' influence on each of these currencies, the author shows that their lessening, first, has mainly taken place in absolute rather than relative terms, so the EU's attractiveness remains strong compared to that of its competitors, and second, it has primarily affected the bloc's soft power potential rather than its actual behavior towards the target countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Thus, reintegrating the market established by CEFTA affected the export of agri-food products." Keywords: Agri-food; Agriculture; Economics; Food; Food Products EN Agri-food Agriculture Economics Food Food Products 250 250 1 03/27/23 20230330 NES 230330 2023 MAR 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Food Weekly News -- Investigators discuss new findings in agriculture. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the repeated betrayal of Balkan countries, and how the U.S. could help the Balkans and other poor areas worldwide through fighting international poverty. Topics include the negative effect of corruption on the economy, the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) of 2010. INSET: MOVING MONEY.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of attending several events at several places including Beijing, China, where he met members of the organization Chinese Society for Trenchless Technology, Balkans Peninsula and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The author describes the integration of historical memory within the narratives of films produced and directed in countries in the Balkan Peninsula. Traveling to and losing oneself in Istanbul has become a line in narratives in films like Ferzan Ozpetek's "Hamam" and Fatih Akin's "Head On." That same spirit permeates pan-Balkan films like Theo Angelopoulos' "Ulysses' Gaze." Bosnian cinema, on the other hand, is mostly focused on war traumas.

Focuses on a United States Department of Defense information paper that announces that there is no connection between leukemia among U.S. troops deployed in the Balkan Peninsula and exposure to depleted uranium (DU) in munitions as of December 10, 2001. Information on DU; Results of surveys on alleged DU contaminations; Concerns of the American Legion on DU weapons.

The article focuses on the opera sector in the Balkan Peninsula as of January 2015. It offers information on opera company Operosa which staged Montenegro's first international opera production "Roméo et Juilette" in Tivat. Operosa is headed by artistic director Katherine Haataja which also hosted a music festival in Montenegro. It notes that the opera has given younger Serbians and Montenegrins' hope that they are moving to the European mainstream.

(Bloomberg) -- The European Union is at risk of losing out to Russia and China in its own backyard, with delays in its decision making creating an opening for the rival powers and increasing tensions in the continent's most volatile region. "Fighting on the EU's borders will make the EU look futile and weak. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The European Union is at risk of losing out to Russia and China in its own backyard, with its trademark slow decision making creating an opening for the rival powers and increasing tensions in the continent's most volatile region. "Fighting on the EU's borders will make the EU look futile and weak. Along with North Macedonia, five other Balkan nations are candidates to join: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. [Extracted from the article]

Focuses on the crisis in the Balkans caused by the influx of thousands of Albanian Kosovar refugees from Kosovo who have been forced out by the Serbian military, despite the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombings in 1999 that were intended to stop the Serbian army. Estimates for the percentage of the Kosovo population that has been forced to leave the province; How countries like Albania, Macedonia and the Yugoslavian province of Montenegro have responded. INSETS: The `Wizzo' War;A Crackdown on Foreign Media, by Barry Came.

Reports on the efforts of the United Nations to end the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia. How the Joint Statement and Agreed Basic Principles were negotiated; Bosnian Serbs' violations of international humanitarian law; Security Council's condemnation of the Bosnian Serb offensive against Srebrenica. INSET: Interim Accord signed by Greece and FYROM..

European integration has became an important part of the national agenda of the Balkan countries, as well a "hot topic" in the newsrooms of the media all over the Balkans. Free media considered as one of the most important characteristics of democratic societies, is now becoming a task to fulfill for these countries that aspire to join the union. As the matter of fact, media in the Balkan countries has failed so far. to be rated as totally free. The latest European Commission progress report stated that the media in the Western Balkan countries is still facing with dependence from the politics, nationalism and hate approach, lack of professional and ethical standards. Nonetheless, this is a process that will take time and a lot of effort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the grocery retailing services industry in Southeast Europe (SEE), noting that the sector is undergoing a key transition in countries such as Slovenia, Croatia and Romania. It cites several factors affecting grocery retailing in the region, including market consolidation, the growing popularity of discounters, and internet retailing. However, it suggests that the modernisation of the sector is at different stages in the various SEE countries.

The article focuses on the political events in the Balkans. Since the Spring of 1994, when U.S. pressure forced the abrupt end to the Croat-Bosnian miniwar, Washington has effectively abandoned the substance of an integral, multinational Bosnia. Instead it has toyed with ways of keeping the Bosnian Muslims afloat within a phantom Bosnia, whose borders would exist in better atlases but not in reality. To accomplish this, Washington forced the Bosnian government into a shotgun marriage with Croatia and its Bosnian (actually Herzegovinian) proxies. But the vaunted Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina was never meant to include the Bosnian Serbs, who not surprisingly were assigned to their real sponsor-President Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia.

The article explores the impact of the ongoing debt crisis in the eurozone on the real output prospects of the economies in Southeast Europe (SEE) in 2012. Topics covered include the dependence of the SEE outlook on the performance of the European Union (EU), how the structural inflexibility in labour markets and high levels of nonperforming loans are affecting major recovery in 2012, and real gross domestic product (GDP) growth prospects of SEE.

The article looks at how chief executive officers (CEO) in the region of Southeast Europe (SEE) cope with the impact of the economic crisis. Topics discussed include the expectations for economic recovery to start in 2012, undertaking of sales initiatives resulting in growth above budget and some of the major technological changes and investments undertaken by SEE managers in 2009.

The article analyzes the film "Ulysses' Gaze," by Theo Angelopoulos. Particular focuses is given to the journey across the Balkans in search of three undeveloped reels shot by the Manakis brothers. The author mentions formal and narrative features that the film manipulates, and the cyclical character of history, temporality, and the subversion of Balkanism within the film.

The article offers the author's insights on archaeological and epigraphic evidence for Jewish communities of the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople and Balkans between fourth and eighth century. He discusses the position of Jews in Byzantine society and the influence of social and political changes in society to the Jewish community and their religious life. He states that the epigraphic evidence attests that women held positions and titles in the Jewish communities of Byzantine Balkans.

Examines how Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo are supporting the United States-led antiterror campaign. Response of Kosovo Albanians to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.; Why Muslims in the Balkans are backing the fight against terrorism; Comments of Interior Minister Muhamed Besic of Bosnia; Historical details; Belief that some extremists are operating in the region.

Reports that the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates has endorsed the formation of an international tribunal to hold trials for alleged war crimes committed during fighting in the Balkan peninsula since 1991. Criticisms on the proposal; Impact of the proposed formation of a tribunal; Implementation of the tribunal and the trials for war criminals.