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- Save the Blue Danube
- By Béla Liptßk, 27 December 1997. In September, 1997, the
International Court of Justive (ICJ) in the Hague has made
an indecisive ruling concerning the first international
environmental lawsuit before it. It ruled that it was
illegal for Slovakia to reroute the Danube.
- Montenegrin trade union conference proposes
international mediator to set peace in the Balkans as basis for
economic recovery
- ICFTU Online..., 30 April 1998. Trade
Unionists at a Conference dealing with Reform Process in
Montenegro which looked at restructuring the economy,
privatisation and methods of dealing with poverty, stressed
that peace in the region is vital for their country's
economic revival. The reform process which Montenegro has
embarked on would be destroyed by conflicts in neighbouring
areas.
- EU plans trade routes across the
continent
- By Jean-Arnault Derens, Le Monde
diplomatique, November 2002. The Pan-European
Corridor Vc is planned to run from Budapest across
Bosnia-Herzegovina and on to the Croatian port of Ploce. It
is supposed to promote trade flows between regions that were
at war only a few years ago. But only incurable optimists
believe it could help to heal divisions, and few people
seriously consider that it will contribute to economic
development.