This is clearly the two statistics of the day. Global piracy on the rise, via the Independent: Piracy is enjoying its busiest month since modern records began, official figures show. With three days still to go, there have been 44 attacks on ships around the world – four more than in the whole of March, itself a record-breaking month.This isn't good either. Records kept by the Internati...

Last month I blogged about an experiment in Sweden where a speed camera records all the cars keeping to the speed limit with all the legal drivers going into a prize draw for cash prizes. The trial has now been carried out and here’s the result (quick version – the average speed of traffic fell

Serbia could become a candidate for European Union membership as soon as next year – but only by gaining a nod of approval from United Nations war crimes prosecutors and accelerating judicial and economic reforms

BUCF has once again smashed all records, a month which has seen the debt of the nation double, the arrest of an MP for trying to speak the truth and the US Presidential Election has also seen BUCF beat it’s previous record for amount of hits that we have hit. From our lovely little image abaove,

As optimism mounts ahead of the arrival tomorrow (4 November) in Belgrade of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Serbia's President Boris Tadić said it is possible that his country might submit its EU membership application before the end of the year.

Serbia on Wednesday (24 November) took another step towards EU membership when Enlargement Commissioner Štefan Füle gave Belgrade a voluminous questionnaire about the country's readiness to join the bloc. EurActiv Serbia reports.

Serbia's Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic made clear yesterday (28 August) that if Serbia had to choose between joining the EU and keeping Kosovo, it would choose the latter, indicating a departure from an earlier position that both objectives were equally important.

This is not even the end of the beginning. Unemployment is rising at the fastest rate since monthly records began, but it will keep rising for two more years. Every month we’ll get this. Every month, Cameron will say “your ‘help’ isn’t working,” and every month he’ll be right. I have two graphs below that make this point. The first compares the monthly ris...

Serbia has overcome another hurdle on its path towards EU membership with today's (9 September) ratification by its parliament of a key pre-accession agreement offering the country closer trade relations and easier travel within the Union.

Well, the news is just rolling in off the wires this morning: The International Monetary Fund and Serbia have agreed a 27-month, 3 billion euro programme to help the Balkan nation enforce the biggest spending cuts in years needed to anchor its weakening economy. “Serbia’s GDP will almost certainly decline in 2009 … It looks more likely