Kosice is not simply one city. Like any Central European metropolis worthy of the name, many urban incarnations coexist cheek and jowl in this charming capital of eastern Slovakia. Yet even as the architecture of Kosice’s many cities now forms one harmonious, unified whole, Kosice contains multiple cities in another, more ominous sense.
When Yugoslavia fell apart in the early 1990s, most people simply became citizens of what had once been its constituent republics: Croatia, Bosnia, etc. But for some, it was not a simple process.
Richard Rashke’s definitive new book Useful Enemies reviewed.
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The European Central Bank, the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund find themselves at odds with another Eurozone country.
Nuclear weapons have always had the power to cloud men’s minds.
Meanwhile, Yugloslovia promoted a third path between communism and capitalism: worker self-management and a limited private sector.
More often than not, news coverage of Turkey’s treatment of refugees is negative. Last month, however, Turkey took a big step toward setting up a proper domestic legal framework and administrative infrastructure for asylum–and it’s something the United States should take note of.
Tangra was censored and harassed, but managed to get its message across.
In June 2012, the Cypriot government requested a bailout after its two largest banks took massive losses—around 1.6 billion euros—on Greek government bond write-downs. In order to remain solvent, it was determined that Cyprus needed 17 billion euros in assistance. What Cypriots got was a government claim on their own private bank accounts.