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22/11/2008

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Rusiñol, Pere

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

El País - Spain | 22/07/2008

Reversal of opinion in Serbia

The daily El País recapitulates the decline of Radovan Karadžić's popularity and his ensuing arrest: "[In the elections] in 2006, Montenegro - his Montenegro - voted to end the marriage with Belgrade. During the election campaign some people living in the Serb enclaves had pictures of the smiling psychiatrist hanging in their dining rooms. 'He is our hero', some would even say. But they lost, and no one reached for their weapons to defend the honour of their hero. The definitive blow came in 2008. Not only did the pro-Europeans win the national elections, but also the Socialist Party [of former Serb President Slobodan] Milošević was key to forming a government that looks to Europe and has begun to face its demons. And this party, too, was shocked by its confrontation with the past: the hero was actually a criminal who destroyed an entire country."

El País - Spain | 23/01/2006

Orhan Pamuk discharged for lack of evidence

The Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has been discharged for lack of evidence and will not have to appear in court on February 7. He had been accused of 'insulting Turkish identity' after giving an interview in which he denounced Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide. "This decision would seem to bring to an end an affair that had been one of the biggest sticking points for Europe in the context of its membership talks with Turkey," writes Pere Rusiñol, the daily's special correspondent in Istanbul. "The EU insisted on the crucial nature of this issue as a way of judging whether the democratic advances demanded of Turkey as a precondition for starting membership negotiations are real or not."

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