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...Thanks to the likes of Easyjet and Sky Europe, the flow of budget-conscious tourists into Central and Eastern Europe is becoming a flood: visitors to Budapest are up 37% during the first quarter of 2005; international arrivals in Warsaw in March were up 35% to 509,000; and Serbia has announced $2.8 billion in subsidies to kick-start tourism there. But having skimped on the fares, it seems many tourists want to swank it up in style. Warsaw now has eight five-star hotels - twice as many as in 2002. Hungary is building two of them a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...while the others watch. The clip, filmed by the unit and obtained by a Serb human-rights investigator, aired last week in the Hague at the trial for war crimes of former Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic. It was also broadcast around Europe. But it was in Serbia itself that the footage caused the greatest tremor. "Serbia is deeply shocked," Boris Tadic, the reform-minded Serb President, said in a televised address. The images, he said, are "proof of a monstrous crime committed against persons of a different religion ... in the name of our nation." Serb officials had previously denied that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood on Their Hands | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...launched the first of its numerous post--cold war wars by invading Panama in December. John Paul II denounced that invasion, a position he would repeat every time the U.S. sent bombers and troops abroad. The Vatican opposed the Gulf War in 1991, the NATO air war against Serbia, the U.S. campaign against Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq in 2003--the entire spirit of "Crusade" that animates the war on terrorism. The Roman Catholic Church under John Paul II made its opposition to war as clear as a bell, even if in Washington this aspect of the Pope's legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's True Revolution | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...Union accession talks this month, but the deal was postponed after the Hague tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, argued that former Croatian general Ante Gotovina is "within the reach of the Croatian authorities" but has still not been turned in almost four years after he was indicted. Serbia and Bosnia aren't even candidates for accession, in large part because Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic, have been indicted and at large since July 1995. E.U. foreign ministers said Croatia's accession talks would start once it was established that Zagreb "is cooperating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Crimes Suspects Cause Collateral Damage | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...Kosovo will probably be rewarded with "final status" talks on independence from Serbia as early as this year. The government is expected to choose a new Prime Minister this week. Meanwhile, Haradinaj is hoping that Jessen-Petersen was right when he said: "I trust that Mr Haradinaj will again be able to serve Kosovo." The alternative, if convicted, is life. - By Andrew Purvis Storm Over Sunset BRITAIN Home Secretary Charles Clarke imposed strict controls on 10 released terror suspects under a new antiterror bill approved after a marathon all-night session of Parliament. The House of Lords, Parliament's unelected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

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