31 December 2012

KOSOVO / UK: Bureaucrat Thwarted UK Mining Effort...Becomes Cautionary Investor Tale.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/12/31/uk-kosovo-investment-idUKBRE8BU06C20121231

     Kosovo has valuable mineral deposits...but not much else going for it.
     The small nation also has a reputation for graft and mobsters.
     And...it apparently suffers from many over-zealous bureaucrats.
     When some UK investors tried to do business there extracting marble...they were rewarded with revoked licenses...and millions left in limbo.