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WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES
URGE FOR REGIONAL APPROACH TO FIGHT ILLEGAL MIGRATION
The debate of the ministers of the Brdo Process Countries has showed a great
interest in pursuing partnership dialog relating to integrated management of
migration flows, especially in the field of promoting legal migration.
This is one of the conclusions of the 7th Regional Ministerial Conference on
Illegal Migration, Organized Crime, Corruption and Terrorism. The ministers
participating in the Conference at Brdo pri Kranju emphasized great
importance of more relevant, accurate and comparable information and
statistical data on migration.
In cooperation with the International Organisation for Migration Slovenia
has drawn up migration profiles for individual Western Balkans Countries and
Turkey, which will facilitate migration flow management Vice President of
the European Commission agreed that such profiles are a good and useful
instrument.
Regional approach represents the right solution also in the field of the
fight against organised crime, said Mate. Commissioner Frattini, who,
according to his statement at the Press Conference, is aware of the
importance of cooperation and support, including financial, for local and
regional projects, agreed with Minister Mate.
Namely, the Ministers and other participants of the conference continued the
discussion with the presentation of the initiative for a gradual
introduction of an Organised Crime Threat Assessment for the Western Balkan
Countries (known as South-Eastern Europe OCTA).
As was explained by Mate, the first such assessment for the EU was drawn up
by Europol, while the analytical standards and methods will have to be
transferred to the region of the Western Balkans, where some of the most
problematic types of organised crime are trafficking in human beings,
illicit drug trafficking, illegal arms trade and vehicle related crime.
According to Commissioner Frattini, effectiveness of the EU in the fight
against organised crime in the Western Balkans region will undoubtedly be
increased after Slovenia’s entry into the Schengen area.
He assessed that the Schengen enlargement will bring greater security, which
is indicated by the fact that the use of the Schengen Information System in
Slovenia has yielded good results even before Slovenia’s entry in this area.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
APPROVES RESOLUTION AGAINST CREATIONISM
Parliamentarians from the 47-nation Council of Europe have urged its member
governments to “firmly oppose” the teaching of creationism – which denies
the evolution of species through natural selection – as a scientific
discipline on an equal footing with the theory of evolution.
In a resolution passed by 48 votes to 25 during its plenary session in
Strasbourg, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) declared:
“If we are not careful, creationism could become a threat to human rights.”
Presenting the report, Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE), a former Education
Minister, said: “It is not a matter of opposing belief and science, but it
is necessary to prevent belief from opposing science.”
“The prime target of present-day creationists, most of whom are Christian or
Muslim, is education,” the parliamentarians said in the resolution.
“Creationists are bent on ensuring that their ideas are included in the
school science syllabus. Creationism cannot, however, lay claim to being a
scientific discipline.”
The parliamentarians said there was “a real risk of a serious confusion”
being introduced into children’s minds between conviction or belief and
science. “The theory of evolution has nothing to do with divine revelation
but is built on facts.”
“Intelligent design, presented in a more subtle way, seeks to portray its
approach as scientific, and therein lies the danger,” they added.
“Creationism ... was for a long time an almost exclusively American
phenomenon,” the parliamentarians pointed out. “Today creationist ideas are
tending to find their way into Europe and their spread is affecting quite a
few Council of Europe member states.”
The report cites examples from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the
Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and
the United Kingdom.
NEW GERMAN FILM
FESTIVAL AT FROSINA ART CINEMA
"The Life of Others" film by the German director Florian Henckel von
Donnersmarck opens Friday the Festival of new German Film at the Frosina Art
Cinema. The festival will last until October 10 where 25 films will be
shown.
Besides feature films also documentaries and short films will be presented.
Also film workshop of the Faculty of Drama Art in Skopje will take place
which will be led by the Macedonian director Biljana Gavranlieva and German
director Matias Lutard.
- The festival of the German film happens the days of the French film which
symbolises the German - French friendship. Our goal is to present the
European film and to attract the attention of the Macedonian distributors to
present the German and European film in general more, Dorotea Guselman, head
of sector for culture and cooperation within the German Embassy to Macedonia
said at Thursday's press conference.
German director Michael Aue presented the "Franken" workshop which exists
for 25 years and annually produces 24 documentaries. He underlined that
Macedonian audience will have the opportunity to watch documentaries with
topics on culture, history, social and current themes from German society.
Public debate is to take place Monday which will be attended by three
directors from Germany and film workers from Macedonia. |
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PARLIAMENT ELECTS BOGOESKI, SABRIU, PETROVSKA AND KOKU FOR MEMBERS OF
JUDICIAL COUNCIL
Macedonian Parliament elected Thursday Ljubomir Bogoeski, Bujar Sabriu, Lina
Petrovska and Mentor Koku for members of the Judicial Council.
Opposition deputies say the candidates are party figures and do not meet
standards for the Council's seat, while representatives of the ruling
parties say the candidates are non-partisan persons.
Parliament's candidates for Council's members are Lina Petrovska, Ljubomir
Bogoeski and Bujar Sabriu, while two - Abdulselam Kanzoski and Mentor Koku -
are proposed by the President.
The election requires majority of votes of the total number of MPs, plus
majority of votes of MPs representing non-majority communities.
Eight members of the Judicial Council (which should be composed of 15
members), have been already elected from the judicial experts, while the
Justice Minister and the Supreme Court President are permanent members. |
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