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.
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