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Kosovo: broken bridges (part 1)

Mitrovica, the still divided city. The continuing border dispute has recently revived tensions between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in northern Kosovo. Watch our special report and our interview with Edita Tahiri, Kosovo’s chief negotiator in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. We also meet those who are trying to build bridges between the two communities through music.

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Senior Producer: Loick Berrou
Presenter: Christophe Robeet
Producer: Magali Faure
Reporter: Valérie Labonne
Cameraman: Stéphane Bodenne
Video editing: Max Paquereau

Macedonia: the forbidden name (part 1)
26/03/2011 - EUROPE DISTRICT

Macedonia: the forbidden name (part 1)

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Albania: the bumpy road to stability (part 2)
26/02/2011 - EUROPE DISTRICT

Albania: the bumpy road to stability (part 2)

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Albania: the bumpy road to stability (part 1)
26/02/2011 - EUROPE DISTRICT

Albania: the bumpy road to stability (part 1)

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Montenegro: in search of respectability (part 2)
30/01/2011 - EUROPE DISTRICT

Montenegro: in search of respectability (part 2)

The country is not part of the eurozone but it uses the euro as its national currency. We’ll talk economy with our guest Petar Ivanovic. Montenegro is banking on the lucrative high-end tourism market, hoping to turn its 300 km of coastline into a new Riviera. We’ll visit the jewels of the country’s Adriatic coast - Kotor, Perast, Bar - with a musician, Maja Popovic.
Montenegro: in search of  respectability (part 1)
30/01/2011 - EUROPE DISTRICT

Montenegro: in search of respectability (part 1)

For 21 years, the country was led by the same man, Milo Djukanovic. He resigned as prime minister last December, shortly after Montenegro was granted the status of official candidate to the EU. We met his successor, Igor Luksic, a young economist. His team has vowed to meet Brussels’ demands on fighting corruption and organised crime. We’ll also introduce you to the country’s national sport: water polo. And we’ll meet an unusual prince seeking a role to play.

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Nikola Jovanovic

Mrs Tahiri, or what her name is, is talking lies. It's not truth that Serbia did genocide on Kosovo Albanians, but just the opposite. Kosovo was Serbian province who violently with terrorist so called Albanian UCK was killing innocent Serb civilians. Not to mention organ trafficking, UCK was taking hostage of innocent Serbian civilians and was pulling organs from their bodies, and was selling them for money. When Albanians gain power in Kosovo they expelled 250.000 Serbs from their homes, and now those Serbs are refuges in central Serbia. On March the 17. 2004. Albanian majority has desecrated and put on fire Serbian monuments in Kosovo such as monasteries, they even desecrated tombstones on Serbian cemeteries in Kosovo. Everyday Serb civilians are in fear for their life and existence in Kosovo.
If Albanians are talking what wrong has Serbia done to them why don't they talk that most of the infrastructure that they are living now, and most of the buildings and industry in Kosovo was built by that same horrible Serbs, the University who taught and emancipated young Albanians was built also by Serbs, horrible Serbs, schools, nurseries, it was all built and invested from Serbia to province of Kosovo. Kosovo was stable while it was governed from Serbia, and now when Albanians have taken it over they've destroyed it's Economy within ten years. One generation of Albanians in Kosovo has destroyed everything what was built in 50 years by modern Serbia in Kosovo, so that now Kosovo is the poorest region in Europe. But then again it's not Serbian problem anymore, let the EU deal with it in the future.

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