Croatia, Albania, Macedonia and EU Accession: The View from Bruss

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Croatia on the Verge of EU Accession From our window in the iconic, art deco, recently renovated, and surprisingly affordable Hotel Regent Esplanade in Zagreb, Croatia’s increasingly chic capital...

Macedonia’s 2011 Independence Day Interview with Stevo Pendarovsk

Macedonia’s 2011 Independence Day Interview conducted by: Sam Vaknin I have been fortunate to meet Stevo Pendarovski several times, in his official capacities, and “for coffee”. On all occasions, I found him to be level-headed, incisively analytical, and a true...

Can the Albanians in Macedonia be Bought off?

The once and future Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, has surrendered large swathes of his government to his Albanian coalition partners, DUI, the political incarnation of the rugged insurgents who roiled the country in an armed conflict in 2001. Even the...

The Crescent and the Cross

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" "There are two maxims for historians which so harmonise with what I know of history that I would like to claim them as my own, though they really belong to nineteenth-century historiography: first, that...

Crisis in Caucasus to be the hot topic at Toronto summit

Crisis in Caucasus to be the hot topic at Toronto summit ...

Sunshine may be nature's disease fighter

Study shows that by spending more time in the sun could help your chances of fighting health problems from cancer to heart diseases. However on the contrary, by preventing certain health problems, you might need to worry about other problems such as skin cancer....

Deadly bus crash in Spain kills 8 Finnish tourists

A seven-year-old girl is among eight Finnish bus passengers that have been killed in an accident near Spain's southern coastal town of Benalmadena. "Another 16 people on the bus were injured, some seriously, when it collided with another vehicle and overturned on the AP-7...

Nato Macedonia veto stokes tension

Macedonia has been denied entry into Nato. "Macedonia's bid was blocked by Greece because of a 17-year row over the country's name. "

Nato denies Georgia and Ukraine

" Nato denies Georgia and Ukraine Nato has confirmed it will not offer membership to Georgia or Ukraine but agreed to review the decision on the ex-Soviet republics...

16 Killed After Boat Sinks in Albania

Rescue efforts are still underway, however, already 16 people have been confirmed dead in this horrible boat accident in Albania."TIRANA — A boat carrying partygoers celebrating the birthday of 5-year-old twins sank overnight in a lake near the capital, killing 16 people,...

KOSOVO.... FREE AT LAST

    Kosovo, occupied by Serbia prior to WWI,  is free at last!