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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (46551)	2/22/2004 9:43:26 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<< you'd need to know the occupancies, possibly from the more peaceful times... What's the reservoir? The Balkans? European East? >>> from all I read few new hotels were build as recently as 2001 and then is this new one milleniumpalace.com.mk , which still does not have the English / German translation, may be you can help. >>> What's the reservoir? The Balkans? European East?<<< At present I am not there yet as I need to find how much grants I will get those agencies are willing to take on themselves ... start-up cost (plaining training telecom, roads etc.) and the cost of finance. Only after that I will check out the occupancy rate... which I know is crucial. On the Albanian side there is only one hotel with 60 rooms Enkelena in Pogradec. The projct I think of will be around 10 Km from Ohrid the town and half of that from Struga. About 3 Km from there just across the border are Villas for rent for over EUR 300 per night. As to Sky the altitude in Sar planina/popova sapka north of Tetovo is about 1,700 meter, near Ohrid they have in Albania 1,500 + mountain peaks so I assume in winter is not a huge difference the topology what matters Thanks for responding As to the site I am speaking about over 3,500 "dynym" That how the Soros site describes the place Ohrid is one of the most developed touristic centers in the Republic of Macedonia, with modern touristic objects, with an international fame. We have to mention that the town and the Lake are protected by UNESCO as rare architectonical and natural phenomena. soros.org.mk

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (46551)	2/26/2004 8:27:52 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Schroeder goes with the trousers down to Washington asking for Iraqi contracts and for help to stem the Euro raise. If Bush would be tinkering with starting the adventure today, both France and Germany have gone on board. If I'd Bush I'd say: You've got to send troops to Iraq, tell that there may WMD there, ask Saddam to be hang, and that invading Syria and Iran is a good idea. Mend those fences: Financial Times; Feb 26, 2004 The US and Germany cannot escape the fact that their dispute over Iraq marked a turning-point in their relations. For the first time in more than 50 years Germany publicly and flatly opposed the US on an important foreign policy issue. It was also fuelled by President George W. Bush's rancorous claim that Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, had betrayed him by using anti-US rhetoric to get re-elected. The very idea that anti-Americanism was a vote-winner for a mainstream German political party was a novelty. So when US and German leaders meet tomorrow, they will have plenty of fence-mending to do. But the two countries will come together again only if they learn the right lessons from their clash over Iraq, and if each appreciates the considerable residual usefulness of the other. This usefulness is residual because it can never match the special US- German relationship of the cold war. During that long struggle both countries stayed true to each other. Germany never allowed itself to be seduced by its close French partner into disloyalty to the US or Nato, while the US - under Mr Bush's father - in effect brought unification to Germany in the face of opposition from the Soviet Union, and even France and Britain. Now US security concerns have moved on beyond Europe and Germany has become almost a normal country, no longer in need of special protection at home or inhibited from joining allies in peacekeeping abroad. Mr Bush should realise that most Germans remain profoundly allergic to anything that smacks of unilateral military invasions. However, armed with moral and political cover from multilateral institutions, Germany is proving remarkably ready to shoulder its share of the security burden. It is fielding 10,000 peacekeepers, mainly in the Balkans and Afghanistan, incidentally freeing US troops up for other tasks. Mr Bush is also under pressure from his Democratic rivals to use 2004 to mend the diplomatic fences he splintered in 2003. Germany is the obvious place to start. In contrast to France, US public opinion is well-disposed or at least neutral to Germany. So it should be. Mr Schröder is helping the US cope with the war's aftermath by training Iraqi police outside the country and has offered to forgive some Iraqi debt. For Mr Schröder, his visit to Washington this week is an opportunity to rebalance a foreign policy that has fallen too much in thrall to France. This is partly the Bush administration's fault for jointly demonising Berlin and Paris over Iraq. But Mr Schröder might reflect on how his predecessor, Helmut Kohl, managed for 16 years to combine close partnerships with France and the US. His budding trilateral relationship, with Tony Blair as well as Jacques Chirac, may also help provide balance. There can be no going back to the old US-German ties. But there is still the basis for a solid relationship between the two countries.