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- Bosnian experts present U.S.-backed plan for reform
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian legal experts presented on Wednesday a U.S.-backed plan to reform one of the Balkan state's two autonomous regions, a month after it was warned that its bid to join the European Union would be frozen without constitutional changes. Bosnia's Serbs, Muslims and Croats differ over how to change a governing structure enshrined in their 1995 peace treaty dividing it into a Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation with a weak central government in Sarajevo. ...
- Kosovo Serbs 'should accept deal'
Serbia's deputy PM Aleksandar Vucic visits northern Kosovo to try to persuade ethnic Serbs there to accept an EU-brokered agreement.
- Immigrant in Italy kills 1 in pickaxe rampage
ROME (AP) — An immigrant illegally living in Italy went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passer-by and wounding four others in an apparently random attack, police said.
- EU-bound Croatia craves investors but drags feet on reforms
By Igor Ilic and Sasa Kavic DUBROVNIK, Croatia (Reuters) - The barren Srdj plateau overlooking the mediaeval city of Dubrovnik is a real estate developer's dream, offering breath-taking views of Croatia's top tourist destination. That's precisely why an Israeli-Croatian consortium began planning a billion-euro golf resort there in 2006. Seven years on, construction has yet to start. This project typifies the problems facing foreign investors in Croatia, which joins the European Union on July 1, more than 20 years after it broke away in war from socialist Yugoslavia. Worth about 1. ...
- Serb tycoon indicted over privatization deal
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian retail tycoon Miroslav Miskovic was indicted on Thursday over a disputed privatization deal, the latest twist in the downfall of one the richest and most influential figures in the Balkan country for the past two decades. Miskovic, 67, has been in detention since his arrest in December, part of what Serbia's government says is a drive to root out organized crime and corruption as the ex-Yugoslav republic tries to join the European Union. ...
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