Controversy erupts over Vojvodina's Brussels office

se times

22/08/2011

Serbia's northern province will inaugurate its Brussels office within weeks, but some see the move as a step towards separatism.
By Igor Jovanovic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade -- 22/08/11
Vojvodina officials say they harbour great expectations regarding the opening of an office in Brussels in mid-October, primarily to access European funds.
They say this is a normal European practice and over 300 regions from various European states have offices in Brussels....more...
read more: se times
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/08/22/feature-04

Protests In Two Serbian Cities Over Acquittal Of Alleged WWII Killer

radio free europe
July 25, 2011

Hundreds of people have taken part in demonstrations in two Serbian cities against the acquittal by a Hungarian court of an alleged World War II criminal who was charged with involvement in operations by pro-Nazi troops that left hundreds of Serbs, Jews and other civilians dead....more...
read more: radio free europe
http://www.rferl.org/content/protests_in_two_serbian_cities_over_acquittal_of_alleged_wwii_killer/24275820.html

Hungary Acquits Novi Sad Massacre Suspect

balkan insight
19 JUL 2011 / 15:48

The Higher Court of Budapest has acquitted WWII Hungarian Gendarmerie officer Sandor Kepiro, accused of ordering the execution of dozens of Jews in Serbia.

Petar Subotin Belgrade

A Budapest court on Monday acquitted Kepiro of committing war crimes against Serbs, Jews, and Roma during an infamous raid on the northern Serbian town of Novi Sad in January 1942....more...
read more: balkan insight
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/hungarian-court-acquits-nazi-suspect

Nazisme : le Hongrois Sandor Kepiro a été acquitté

le monde
A la Une > Europe

LEMONDE.FR avec AFP

18.07.11
12h28 • Mis à jour le 18.07.11
15h02
Le Hongrois Sandor Kepiro, 97 ans, considéré comme l'un des derniers criminels de guerre nazis présumés encore vivants, a été acquitté de l'accusation de complicité de crimes de guerre en Serbie en 1942, notamment contre des juifs, lundi 18 juillet, par le tribunal de Budapest....more...
read more: le monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/07/18/nazisme-le-hongrois-sandor-kepiro-a-ete-acquitte_1549952_3214.html

Hungary Nazi war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro acquitted

bbc news
18 July 2011 Last updated at 11:00 GMT

Hungarian man, Sandor Kepiro, has been found not guilty of committing war crimes during a 1942 raid.
A Budapest court acquitted the former police captain, now 97, of ordering the rounding up and execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in Serbia in 1942....more...
read more: bbc news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14185045

Nazi war crimes suspect found non-guilty by Hungarian court

xinhua
Nazi war crimes suspect found non-guilty by Hungarian court
English.news.cn 2011-07-18 21:17:24
BUDAPEST, July 18 (Xinhua) -- A three-judge panel in a Hungarian court issued a not-guilty verdict in the war crimes trial of 97-year-old Sandor Kepiro.
Kepiro, a former Hungarian gendarmerie captain, was listed by the Simon Wiesenthal center as the world's most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect....more...
read more: xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-07/18/c_13993096.htm

Hungary court clears man, aged 97, of WW2 warcrimes

reuters
By Marton Dunai and Fedja Grulovic

BUDAPEST/NOVI SAD

Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:15pm BST
(Reuters) - A Hungarian court on Monday cleared a 97-year-old man of involvement in the massacre of more than 1,000 civilians in the Serb city of Novi Sad during World War Two, but opponents said they would try to overturn the verdict....more...
read more: reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/18/uk-hungary-warcrimes-idUKTRE76H2BU20110718

Man charged with killing Serbs, Jews and Roma acquitted

b92.net
REGION

MONDAY 18.07.2011
12:51
SOURCE: TANJUG

BUDAPEST -- A Hungarian court has acquitted WW2 fascist Hungarian Gendarmerie officer Sandor Kepiro, who stood trial charged with war crimes committed in occupied Serbia.

The Budapest Prosecution charged him in February of this year with taking part in the infamous Novi Sad Raid, when 1,200 Serbs, Jews and Romas were rounded up and executed in the space of three days in February 1942....more....
read more: b92.net
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=07&dd=18&nav_id=75506

Prosecution, Jewish community react to Kepiro acquittal

b92.net
POLITICS

MONDAY 18.07.2011
16:27
SOURCE: B92, TANJUG

BELGRADE, BUDAPEST -- Serbia's Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekarić said Monday he "could not comment" on the decision by Budapest court to acquit Sandor Kepiro.
He however said he expected "Hungarian colleagues to appeal the verdict".

"This is a first-degree verdict and we cannot comment on it. Of course we are not happy with it and expect the Hungarian prosecutor to appeal it," Vekarić told Tanjug....more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=07&dd=18&nav_id=75509

New Chief For Serbia's Northern Regional TV

balkan insight
06 JUL 2011 / 09:10

The appointment of a new managing director for the public service broadcaster of the northern province of Vojvodina has raised hopes of a turn-around in the ailing station's fortunes.

Bojana Barlovac Belgrade
Sinisa Isakov has been appointed managing director of Radio Television of Vojvodina, raising hopes of better days for the ailing public service broadcaster in Serbia's northern province. ...more...
read more: balkan insight
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/vojvodina-public-broadcaster-faces-changes

Serbian farmers declare victory as government backs down

se times

10/06/2011

Reversing a planned cut to subsidies, Belgrade drafts a new policy to strengthen agriculture and boost food

exports.

By Biljana Pekusic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade -- 10/06/11

After Serbia's farmers blocked the roads in Vojvodina for a week, the government agreed to their demands and reversed a decision to suspend agricultural subsidies for land parcels bigger than 10 hectares. On June 5th, Belgrade announced the deal and the blockade cleared.

"We were united and achieved our goal. We succeeded in ensuring that an even greater number of farmers obtain subsidies," Association of Farmers Chairman Miroslav Kis told SETimes....more.....
read more: se times
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/06/10/feature-02

Farmers keep Vojvodina in blockade, no agreement with Government

blic online

Access to all border crossings and all roads except highway closed

‘Blic’ team | 03. 06. 2011. - 00:02h | Comments 0

NOVI SAD – Farmers from Vojvodina who have been protesting for four days already yesterday requested to talk with Serbia President Boris Tadic about problems in farming.....more.... 

read more: blic online
http://english.blic.rs/Economy/7716/Farmers-keep-Vojvodina-in-blockade-no-agreement-with-Government

Serbia’s Vojvodina to Meet EU Energy Goals Alone

balkan analysis

June 3, 2011

Editor’s note: In this special report for Balkanalysis.com by guest author Kostis Geropoulos, readers are treated to insights on a unique case of Balkan local government taking the initiative on renewable sources of energy. The article is complemented by exclusive comments from national and local officials from Serbia.

By Kostis Geropoulos in Athens*
Serbia may not be part of the European Union – at least not yet – but its northern region of Vojvodina is striving to meet the bloc’s 20-20-20 goals to battle climate change and drive energy sustainability in the Balkans- on its own, if need be.
Vojvodina is at the forefront of renewables and energy saving, trying to meet EU climate change goals. “Yes, of course, [meeting] European goals and targets is a part of our policy because an EU future is at the center, it’s at the heart of what we are doing as a government so energy policy is devised in this context as well,” Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic told me on 19 May at a seaside resort in Lagonissi, south of Athens.....more....

read more: balkan analysis
http://www.balkanalysis.com/serbia/2011/06/03/serbia%E2%80%99s-vojvodina-to-meet-eu-energy-goals-alone/

Tractors blocking half of Vojvodina

blic online

Farmers held Novi Sad and Pancevo under siege yesterday

‘Blic’ team | 01. 06. 2011. - 00:57h | Comments 0

NOVI SAD - As farmers said, the blockade of roads shall last until fulfillment of farmers’ requests for return of subsidies as per the last year decision and recent ministerial promises....more... 

read more: blic online
http://english.blic.rs/News/7703/Tractors-blocking-half-of-Vojvodina

Second World War police captain on trial over Nazi massacres in Serbia

the independent
AP

Friday, 6 May 2011
A Hungarian man aged 97 proclaimed his innocence yesterday as his war crimes trial began in Budapest for the killings of civilians in Serbia in 1942.

Sandor Kepiro, a former police captain, is charged with taking part in raids by Hungarian forces in the northern Serbian town of Novi Sad, where 1,200 civilians were killed....more...
read more: the independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/second-world-war-police-captain-on-trial-over-nazi-massacres-in-serbia-2279646.html

There are always choices, even in war

the economist
HUNGARY AND THE WAR
  May 5th 2011, 17:07 by A.L.B.

BUDAPEST
THE war-crimes trial of Sándor Képíró, a former officer in the Hungarian gendarmerie, opened in Budapest today. Mr Képíró has been charged with commanding a patrol that executed four people in Novi Sad, northern Serbia, in January 1942, and is suspected of involvement in the deaths of 30 others.
The killings took place after Novi Sad had been occupied by the Hungarian army. About 1,200 people, mostly Serbs and Jews, were killed over a three-day period. The massacre only stopped after the arrival of senior officers from Budapest....more...
read more: the economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/05/hungary_and_war

Suspect in Novi Sad Massacre Tried in Hungary

balkan insight
05 May 2011 / 13:53

The trial of 97-year-old Sandor Kepiro, accused of committing war crimes in occupied northern Serbia during WWII, has begun in Budapest, Hungary.
Tanjug, B92

Kepiro showed up in the courtroom on Wednesday aided by relatives, "since he moves with difficulty", said reports....more...
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/suspect-in-novi-sad-massacre-tried-in-hungary

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Trial opens for suspected WW2 Hungarian Nazi

b92.net
Crime & War crimes

Thursday 5.05.2011
14:25
Source: Tanjug

BUDAPEST -- The trial of 97-year-old Sandor Kepiro, accused of committing war crimes in occupied northern Serbia during WW2, has begun in Budapest, Hungary. The trial is attended today by Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević.

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution initially opened the case, but later decided to transfer it to the Hungarian judiciary. ...more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=05&nav_id=74161

One of world's most wanted WWII war crimes suspects goes on trial

deutsche welle
World War II

05.05.2011

One of the last Nazi war crimes trials has opened in Budapest. The 97-year-old Hungarian, Sandor Kepiro, topped the Wiesenthal most-wanted list for his suspected role in a 1942 massacre in present-day Serbia.

The trial of one of the world's most-wanted World War II war crimes suspects opened in Budapest on Thursday. Sandor Kepiro, a former Hungarian military officer, is accused of complicity in the murder of Serbian and Jewish civilians in a massacre in Serbia in 1942....more...


read more: deutsche welle
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15050004,00.html

A company which kept data does not have a server

blic online

Prosecution investigates school data base affair

28. 04. 2011. - 00:02h
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Affair at Vojvodina Secretariat for education which helped foreign company ‘WDW Soft’ gets a several million deal does not end with the fact that this company won the tender at a time it actually did not exist....more...

read more: blic online
http://english.blic.rs/News/7599/A-company-which-kept-data-does-not-have-a-server