Balkan press review
In the spotlight: in the Balkans, the impossible defense of workers' rights
In a street in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 27, 2022. (Illustrative image) AP - Armin Durgut
Text by: Courrier des Balkans Follow |
Florentin Cassonnet
3 mins
A press review prepared with
Le Courrier des Balkans.
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These are not factories, but torture chambers.
In the Balkans, defending workers' rights has become an almost impossible mission.
Crushed by the neo-liberal transition imposed by increasingly authoritarian regimes, the unions end up giving up.
But the workers still keep their fists raised.
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Faced with the aging of its population and therefore the lack of manpower, Germany will further facilitate the arrival of foreign workers.
In the Balkans, this will further accelerate the exodus of living forces.
Serbia is already watching helplessly
as its youth leave for Germany.
Brussels pushes Bosnia and Herzegovina towards European integration
On October 12, the EU Foreign Affairs Commission presented its annual “enlargement package”, taking stock of the progress of the candidate countries towards European integration.
Serbia is singled out
for its multiple deviations from the common foreign policy.
For Bosnia and Herzegovina,
the European Commission recommended candidate status
: “
We are doing this for the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
But it also comes with high expectations.
It is up to the elite to make it a reality
”, launched the European Commissioner for Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi.
In the two Bosnian entities, the announcement generated a mixture of hope and skepticism, as the process is long and subject to conditions that the authorities have so far failed to meet.
Thousands of people demonstrated again
on October 9 in Banja Luka, the capital of the Serbian entity.
The opposition denounces the fraudulent election of Milorad Dodik as President of the Republika Srpska and calls for a new election.
The electoral commission announces a recount of the ballots due
to "irregularities and inconsistencies
".
Drowned refugees in the Aegean Sea: Greece and Turkey are still passing the buck
At least 31 people died in the
sinking of two boats
trying to reach the Greek islands in the middle of a storm, on October 5 and 6.
Greece accuses Turkey of using migrants to increase pressure as tensions rise in the Aegean Sea, especially over hydrocarbons.
Scorching temperatures, water restrictions, torrential rains... Faced with climate change, Croatia is
one of the most vulnerable countries in Europe
because "
it is in the red for all risk indicators
", warn experts .
The challenge of the long-term integration of Ukrainian refugees
At the end of July, Romania launched a medium and long-term integration plan for refugees from Ukraine, a first in the European Union.
Report from Brăila
, on the Danube, where companies and communities, including the "Lipoveni Russians", organize themselves to welcome them despite the obstacles.
This is the epilogue of 40 years of fighting for the rights of LGBT+ people: the Slovenian Parliament has passed
a law giving the same rights to same-sex
couples as to heterosexual couples.
But the conservative currents have not said their last word.
Tito's villa in New York
, on Fifth Avenue, was sold for 50 million euros.
The succession of socialist Yugoslavia was blocked for years because of disagreements between the five heir countries.
Around 50 luxury properties are still for sale around the world.
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