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On the banks of the artificial Jablanica lake (photo Federico Sutera)

Land of blue gold

Andrea Rossini | 7 May 2013 ita

Bosnia Herzegovina is one of the European countries with the richest water resources. Projects to build a series of hydroelectric power stations in Republika Srpska, however, are endangering a delicate environmental balance. Report



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Day 5: the ICTY debate

Andrea Rossini | 26 February 2013 ita

The Tribunal did its job as a criminal court, without reaching local societies. A first round up of the debate



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The road home

Andrea Rossini | 16 November 2012 ita

In April 2013 the first census of the population since the war years will take place in Bosnia Herzegovina. Official data say that over a million refugees and displaced persons have returned home after the ethnic cleansing of the '90s. The real picture of the country, however, seems a lot different. Our report



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Bosnia: agony over Dayton

Andrea Rossini | 14 August 2012 ita

The European integration process of Bosnia and Herzegovina is on stand by until the country adapts its Constitution to the standards required by the European Court of Human Rights. Sarajevo between human and ethnic rights, the Komšić factor



Sarajevo (Foto Andrea Rossini)

Abdulah Sidran, the soul of Sarajevo

Andrea Rossini | 3 July 2012 ita

Sarajevo, 20 years after the siege. The famous Bosnian poet and writer talks about a city that for centuries has symbolized the encounter of faiths, nations, and cultures



(Photo Steve H, Flickr)

A bullet for Suljagić, an award for Cerić

Andrea Rossini | 20 March 2012 ita bhs

Religion, education, politics. Observations on some recent events in the Bosnian news, a few weeks before the activities scheduled to remind Europe and the world of the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo and the war in Bosnia Herzegovina



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Memories of a Bosnian Roma

Andrea Rossini | 10 February 2012 ita

20 years ago a group of Serb paramilitaries destroyed a Roma village in Eastern Bosnia, killing all the residents. A child survived and, today, he is asking for his people justice before the Belgrade's War Crimes Prosecutor



Justice # 2 (Foto InsideMyShell, Flickr)

The Hague after Mladić

Andrea Rossini | 16 June 2011 ita

The enthusiasm for Ratko Mladić’s arrest has generated a mission accomplished climate with regards to justice for the crimes committed in the ‘90s. There are still, however, many ongoing trials, both at The Hague and in the local Courts, and many cases still to investigate



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The Mladić case

Andrea Rossini | 3 June 2011 ita

Carla Del Ponte, former Head of the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunal of the Hague, comments on the position of the defendant and on the possible development of the case. Interview



Belgrado (Foto George M. Groutas, Flickr)

A new Serbia

Andrea Rossini | 26 May 2011 ita

Mladić's arrest opens a new page for Serbia and for the whole region. On the XXth anniversary since the start of the dissolution of Yugoslavia, a sign that the ex-socialist country's long transition has come to an end. After thousands of victims. Our comment



(Foto Laurence & Annie, Flickr)

Inzko’s choice

Andrea Rossini | 7 May 2011 ita

In the open crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the international community must avoid the trap of a head-on collision, bringing the European integration process back to the forefront of the political debate. In a Bosnia with no High Representative



Sarajevo (Foto Scoobay, Flickr)

A Stronger Europe in Sarajevo

Dijon | Andrea Rossini | 6 May 2011 ita

The political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country's European path and the attempts at much-needed constitutional reform. Our interview with Paola Pampaloni, Head of the BiH Unit of the European Commission's Enlargement Directorate



A frame in Žepče, Bosnia - Andrea Rossini

Small Bosnian enterprise

Zenica, Žepče, Sarajevo | Andrea Rossini | 2 February 2011 ita bhs

The state of the economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the case of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Zenica-Doboj canton, the country's industrial and agricultural sectors, and the hard chase after European funds. Our reportage



Power plant in the Zenica-Doboj canton - A. Rossini

Bosnia-Herzegovina: the Krivaja life

Zavidovići, Sarajevo | Andrea Rossini | 27 December 2010 ita bhs

From socialism to war, from war to market economy. The transition of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the history of a giant industrial kombinat, Zavidovići's Krivaja. The winners and the losers of privatisations, 15 years later



Ethnopolis

Ethnopolis

Andrea Rossini | 19 February 2010 ita

The Bosnian political crisis in the election year. The European Court of Human Rights' statement on the Dayton Peace Agreement, the force of the Ethnopolis



East of '89

East of '89

Andrea Rossini | 10 November 2009 ita

The memory of the communist era in Romania, questions about the revolution and the end of the Ceauşescu regime. An interview with Corneliu Porumboiu, screenwriter and director of the critically-acclaimed film "12:08 East of Bucharest"



Bosnian Chess

Bosnian Chess

Sarajevo | Andrea Rossini | 2 July 2009 ita

An interview with Senad Pećanin, director of the news weekly Dani, about the ongoing clash between High Representative Inzko and the institutions of Republika Srpska, the position of the international community, and the future of the country



The fall

The fall

Andrea Rossini | 4 March 2009 ita

The end of division in Europe, the end of Yugoslavia, the advent of globalisation: an interview with Rada Ivekovic. A new article in the series on European identity, the new system of international relations and the memory of communism in the first 20 years after 1989



Surviving Reunification

Surviving Reunification

Andrea Rossini | 18 February 2009 ita

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the European integration process, via the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The controversial heritage of Communism in Europe, made of nostalgia, social injustice and demand for security. An interview with Slavenka Drakulić



Greetings from Guantanamo

Greetings from Guantanamo

Andrea Rossini | 20 January 2009 ita

With Obama's first days in the White House comes hope for a new direction in human rights protection after the Bush era. The case of the "Six Algerians" kidnapped in Sarajevo in 2002 and held in Guantanamo for 7 years. A comment by former UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Wolfgang Petritsch



In December 1989, 20 years ago, Timişoara citizens fought alone against the regime of Ceausescu. The memories of Ioan Savu, one of the leaders of that revolution, and professor Miodrag Milin, the first to collect the stories of those days. A videoreportage by Davide Sighele and Francesco Martino

Philosopher, dissident, politician. Zhelyu Zhelev has been the first Bulgarian president democratically elected after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A videointerview [Bulgaria, 2009]

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