|
More than electing Podgorica’s mayor |
|
ARTICLES
|
|
17.07.11 |
|
by Milena Milošević and Apostolis Karabairis
 With the election of new mayors taking place in Montenegro on 19th July, the two old governing coalition partners – the predominant Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) – will again have to face their strained relations at the local-level in the capital, Podgorica. What began with separate candidate lists in May 2010′s local elections, and escalated with disagreements regarding several city bills, has now peaked with the SDP’s refusal to vote for the renewal of the mandate of Miomir Mugoša, the incumbent mayor and DPS candidate. Recent developments within the DPS add another important variable to the crisis.
Read the full article on Transconflict
More than electing Podgorica's mayor |
|
Utrinski Vesnik: Interview with AWG Director of Research, Dr. Ioannis Armakolas |
|
NEWS
|
|
17.07.11 |
|
Interview with AWG Director of Research Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, given to Mirkić Popoviḱ for the "Utrinski Bechuk" newspaper in FYROM. Dr. Armakolas answers 10 questions about the impact of the economic crisis on the negotiations on the name in both countries and the region.
To read the full interview click here.
To read the interview in english (from Google Translate) click here. |
|
Dr. Armakolas' assessment featured in the newspaper "Utrinski Vesnik" |
|
NEWS
|
|
17.07.11 |
|
Dr. Armakolas' assessment on the impact of the statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje featured in the article entitled "Statue opens Pandora's box", in the newspaper "Utrinski Bechuk" in FYROM.
To read the full article click here.
To read the article in english (from Google Translate) click here. |
|
|
While the past decade has witnessed remarkable progress in stabilizing the Western Balkans and positioning the region on the ladder to NATO and EU membership, significant work still needs to be accomplished in order to fully secure the peninsula as a component part of the Euro-Atlantic community. The Athens Working Group: Transforming the Balkans [AWG] is dedicated to producing high quality analysis of the region to propel it forward with the objectives of political stabilization, durable security, respect for human rights, economic development, and international institutional integration for the entire Balkan region.
The Athens Working Group was founded in October 2009 as part of the US-GREECE TASK FORCE, a collaborative bilateral initiative by two key policy institutes, the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] (United States) and the Hellenic Centre for European Studies [EKEM] (Greece). Now in its second year, the AWG has retained key figures from the Task Force in the program's Advisory Board and assembled a dynamic team of researchers from Greece, the Balkans and the United States who investigate and advance the best ideas to advance the region's security, political stability and economic development.
