Word: embargos
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...economic embargo is concerned, Kosovo looks like an easy target. With a territory some seven times larger than Kosovo's and with a population five times as big, Serbia looms heavily over the province. Furthermore, some 70% of Kosovo's consumer goods come from Serbia, and so does much of its electricity supply. In theory, the embargo would cripple Kosovo's already troubled economy, especially if it includes cuts in electricity...
...diplomatic response to the recognition of the breakaway province would be within a wide spectrum from "the very mild to the very tough, the toughest one being cutting off diplomatic relations with countries which violate the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia." Other measures may include imposing an economic embargo on Kosovo, stirring trouble in Bosnia-Herzegovina and other neighboring states, and turning to Russia for a deeper strategic partnership...
...effective would these measures be in real life? An embargo was already tried, in 1999, after NATO forced Slobodan Milosevic to pull his security forces from the province. It was never enforced: bypassing controls and ethnic barriers, truckloads of smuggled Serbian goods still flowed into Kosovo, their passage greased by bribery. If Serbia does attempt to close the border with Kosovo, the trade would not stop: it would simply go underground, through the old and well-developed smuggling networks. The prices would rise slightly, but that would...
...their filing last week, UC Election Commission Chairman Michael L. Taylor ’08 noted some key changes to this year’s campaign regulations, which include stricter registration procedures for campaign staffers, a revamped system of assessing campaign violations, and the lifting of a one-year embargo on e-mail campaigning. Sundquist, a veteran of last year’s presidential campaign, said the biggest change is a scheduling alteration that has shortened the time between the first allowance for active campaigning and the beginning of voting—which falls on Dec. 3 this year...
...mail to candidates confirming their filing, Taylor noted some key changes to this year's campaign regulations, which include stricter registration procedures for campaign staffers, a new system of assessing campaign violations, and the lifting of a one-year embargo on e-mail campaigning...