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Croatia Flux: Airline Strikes, Railway Disenchantment, and Smugglers, Etc.

2013-05-17 by Phil Butler

Župan Hajdaš Dončić

As the Croatia Airlines strike heads into its fourth day Croatia’s Minister of Transport, Sinisa Hajdas Doncic (below) has said the carrier may go bankrupt if a restructuring plan set in motion is off the table. Meanwhile some 200 Railway Workers Union members protested outside government offices in St. Mark’s Square in Zagreb on Wednesday. By the looks of things Croatia is headed to EU membership carry some unclaimed transportation luggage.

Tags: Catherine Ashton, Croatia Airlines, Croatia concerns, Croatia railways, Croatia strikes, EU membership, Former Yugoslavia, human trafficking, Ivo Josipovic, Sinisa Hajdas Doncic

Romania Tourism Today: Time for a Class Marketing Act

2012-10-18 by Phil Butler

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Recent data from the Romanian Federation of Tourism Employers (FPTR) shows some 650,000 plus tourists having arrived from outside the country in Bucharest every year. The data shows most tourists taking advantage of Bucharest hotels are in fact business travelers.

Tags: Bucharest tourism, Bucharest travel, Europe brides, human trafficking, Romania travel, Romanian brides, Russian brides, sex industry, sex trafficking

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