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[00:00:00] tourism destinations, welcoming a record nearly 40
[00:00:03] million international visitors in 2019 before the
[00:00:06] COVID-19 pandemic brought the industry to near
[00:00:09] standstill. In July 2024, Thailand expanded
[00:00:13] visa free stairs from 30 to 60 days to attract
[00:00:16] travelers back and encourage them to stay and spend for longer,
[00:00:20] and Bangkok alone was named the world's most visited city by Euro
[00:00:24] Monitor International, a year later, attracting around 30 million
[00:00:28] international visitors. The length of stay
[00:00:31] for tourists by the strict definition
[00:00:34] in Thailand is about a little bit around eight
[00:00:38] or nine days. High profile incidents of public
[00:00:41] disorder, violence and tourists breaking local laws and
[00:00:45] social media have fueled calls for tighter enforcement as officials
[00:00:49] try to balance welcoming millions of visitors with protecting local
[00:00:52] communities and Thailand's reputation as a safe
[00:00:55] destination.
[00:00:59] works for. While school in Bangkok, she thinks the
[00:01:02] behavior from some tourists has caused the 30-day visa free
[00:01:06] limit to return. I feel so sorry, I'm not, I don't know
[00:01:10] why they say, I think
[00:01:12] a lot the people come to Thailand,
[00:01:16] sorry now, some people not good for
[00:01:19] Thailand, you understand? Hermwate high school relies on both local and
[00:01:22] international customers to train in its traditional gym
[00:01:26] often for months at a time. With the new changes to the 60
[00:01:30] visa, she admits it may impact business going
[00:01:33] forward. The school has already seen a 20% decrease in
[00:01:37] customers this year because of external factors such as fewer flights and
[00:01:40] visitors entering Thailand due to the rising costs because of the conflict in the
[00:01:44] Middle East. Isaac Taiki says his one-year stint in the country
[00:01:48] has opened doors for him, but he could have missed out on an opportunity to train
[00:01:52] White Thai for an extended period and the offer to compete in a
[00:01:55] semi-professional fight in the Thai capital with a shorter stay.
[00:01:59] I kept saying. kept trying, kept training and then a fight got offered, so it
[00:02:03] kind of just rolled into what it is now, but again it kind of goes back to
[00:02:06] the time, if I was here a shorter time frame or like based
[00:02:10] on how the the visa could be or how it is, that
[00:02:13] wouldn't be possible. Thailand is very much open to the world,
[00:02:17] but a return of shorter visa free stays
[00:02:20] alongside other subtle policy changes and
[00:02:24] tighter enforcement could allow authorities to strike a
[00:02:28] balance between in... origin tourism and
[00:02:31] tackling any misbehaving visitors.
[00:02:35] Tommy Walker, TRT World, Bangkok,
[00:02:38] Thailand. And you're up to date here on TRT World.
[00:02:42] Across the Balkans is coming next.
[00:02:52] People are afraid of
[00:02:56] Hello, you are watching TRT World. Today we look at
[00:03:00] Croatia, where thousands of tons of illegally
[00:03:03] dumped waste have sparked mass protests and
[00:03:07] Serbia, where Belgrade's public pharmacy network is close to
[00:03:10] collapse, from environmental safety to
[00:03:13] access to essential medicine, we ask who is
[00:03:17] responsible when the systems people depend on
[00:03:21] begin to fail. I'm Naja Muftic and this is across the
[00:03:24] Balkans.
[00:03:40] Croatia is celebrated for its pristine lakes and
[00:03:44] forests, but it's also rapidly unfolding a different
[00:03:47] narrative. It's at the center of a long-running
[00:03:51] dispute over thousands of tons of illegally dumped
[00:03:54] waste from some EU countries. On September
[00:03:58] 5th, tens of thousands of protesters marched through
[00:04:02] the Croatian capital, demanding the government urgently
[00:04:05] clear a huge illegal dump of hazardous
[00:04:08] waste. Here is
[00:04:09] more.
[00:04:15] Nobody wants to see waste or garbage at their
[00:04:18] doorstep, not least thousands of tons of
[00:04:21] it. That's the complaint of these protesters who took to the
[00:04:25] streets of Zagreb over a dispute stretching back more than
[00:04:29] a year.
[00:04:32] Nearly 40,000 tons of waste, including
[00:04:34] electronics, plastic and medical waste were found at this
[00:04:38] former industrial complex. Authorities
[00:04:41] suspect much of it was illegally imported from EU
[00:04:45] countries like Germany, Slovenia and Italy.
[00:04:48] Gospić is our home organized the rally titled
[00:04:52] Walk for Lika, walk for Croatia, and demanded that the
[00:04:55] government temporarily ban waste imports. The basic
[00:04:59] human right is to have clean soil, clean
[00:05:02] water and clean air, and we
[00:05:05] are responsible to give those to our children and
[00:05:09] our grandchildren to leave the country clean.
[00:05:13] because I have to be here, because it is the duty of every
[00:05:16] normal citizen of this country to fight
[00:05:20] for a better country, to fight against injustice, to
[00:05:24] defend our lives, to defend
[00:05:27] the most beautiful part of our Croatia, that is
[00:05:30] Lika.
[00:05:40] Suspected of importing waste and illegally burying it at several sites
[00:05:44] across Croatia, in a case involving millions of
[00:05:47] dollars. In 2025, Croatian
[00:05:50] police and Europol arrested 13 people in an
[00:05:53] operation related to a scandal over illegal waste disposal in
[00:05:57] Lika. President Zoran Milanović
[00:06:00] promised immediate cleanup warning that those
[00:06:04] responsible will be held accountable and that he would seek amendments to
[00:06:07] the waste management act and establish a new waste
[00:06:11] management system. to be measured when it comes to this buried
[00:06:14] waste, since it is buried and mixed with
[00:06:18] earth, its characteristics
[00:06:21] regarding its content can qualify it as containing
[00:06:25] certain hazardous waste, and here
[00:06:29] the procedure is such that we must find
[00:06:32] appropriate companies that are capable of disposing of
[00:06:35] such waste.
[00:06:37] of infrastructure to dispose of some
[00:06:42] hazardous waste. Prime
[00:06:46] Minister Plenković stated that the country exports more waste
[00:06:50] than it imports and that only 0.8% of the waste
[00:06:54] imported in 2024 was classified as
[00:06:57] hazardous.
[00:06:59] Following a two-day parliamentary session to discuss illegal waste
[00:07:03] dumping in the Lika region, the Croatian Parliament
[00:07:07] rejected four proposals made by the president and
[00:07:11] adopted 11 put forward by the ruling majority. They
[00:07:14] included a report on the progress of the clean up, including actions
[00:07:18] taken, deadlines, costs, environmental monitoring results
[00:07:21] and greater efforts by local authorities to prevent illegal
[00:07:25] dumping, but this is also an issue over what
[00:07:29] cannot be seen. Gospić is located in Croatia's
[00:07:33] Karst region where water can move through complex underground
[00:07:36] canals. An expert assessment suggests microplastics
[00:07:40] and heavy metals were found in the... soil in the contaminated
[00:07:44] area, but Plenković maintained in a statement that the water
[00:07:47] in the Lika region and in particular Gospić is
[00:07:51] completely safe to drink. For the people of
[00:07:54] Gospić, cleaning up the site is only the beginning. They want assurances
[00:07:57] that what happened here will not simply be buried elsewhere
[00:08:01] for other communities to deal
[00:08:03] with.
[00:08:08] Joining us now from Zadar, Croatia is Ivana
[00:08:11] Šarić, a member of the citizen group Gospić je naš dom
[00:08:15] or Gospić is our home. Ivana, thank you for
[00:08:18] joining us on Across the Balkans.
[00:08:22] Thank you for your invitation. Let's start
[00:08:25] with the basic question: what exactly happened in Gospić?
[00:08:28] How did more than 30,000 tons of
[00:08:31] waste, including hazardous medical and industrial
[00:08:35] refuse end up buried at the former PPK Velebit
[00:08:39] site and how could this continue for years
[00:08:42] without the authorities stopping
[00:08:44] it?
[00:08:47] Uh, what happened in Gospić is a very serious
[00:08:50] case of illegal waste dumping that went on for
[00:08:53] years. According to the investigation,
[00:08:57] large quantities of waste were transported
[00:09:01] and illegally dumped in Gospić. To put that in perspective,
[00:09:04] we are talking about approximately
[00:09:08] 1,500 trucks full of that
[00:09:11] waste. And if we line those trucks up with
[00:09:14] that waste, we have around 20
[00:09:18] kilometers long convoy.
[00:09:22] Ivana, you and other residents say this is
[00:09:26] not only an environmental problem, but
[00:09:29] a failure of the state. What in your
[00:09:31] view did the government, inspectors and other
[00:09:35] institutions fail to do while thousands of tons
[00:09:38] of waste were being brought into the region?
[00:09:43] In our view, the biggest failure was the failure of
[00:09:47] oversight. We are talking about thousands of tons
[00:09:51] of waste being transported,
[00:09:53] processed and buried over a period of several
[00:09:56] years, and that raises very serious
[00:10:00] questions about inspections, about
[00:10:03] waste tracking, about permits, about
[00:10:06] monitoring and communication between the
[00:10:09] institutions. The question is not only
[00:10:13] who dumped that waste? We
[00:10:15] also have to ask how is this possible on this scale
[00:10:19] without the system detecting it and stopping them? For
[00:10:22] citizens, this is essential
[00:10:26] because with accountability, it
[00:10:29] is very difficult to rebuild the trust that we
[00:10:32] lost. The government says drinking water
[00:10:36] in Gospić and Lika-Senj County is safe,
[00:10:39] but expert findings reported elevated levels of
[00:10:42] heavy metals in the area. Who should people
[00:10:46] believe and why has this contradiction created such a deep
[00:10:49] public distrust?
[00:10:53] Um, first we have to distinguish
[00:10:57] two different things. We have the first thing
[00:11:00] is that we have the drinking water. The authorities
[00:11:04] have repeatedly said that the public drinking water supply in
[00:11:08] Gospić is currently safe, and the
[00:11:11] Croatian Institute of Public Health has reported
[00:11:15] that the or tested tap water
[00:11:18] samples are within the required standards.
[00:11:22] From the other side, expert findings
[00:11:26] show that illegally on on the site of
[00:11:29] an illegal landfill that we have some
[00:11:32] PFAS compounds. Uh, you
[00:11:35] know, and those compounds are found in groundwater.
[00:11:38] So this is that was very
[00:11:42] confusing and there they
[00:11:45] also found some levels of certain metals
[00:11:48] in the soil. And
[00:11:51] those findings are not necessarily contradictory. Why?
[00:11:55] Because the groundwater, uh, or the
[00:11:57] downstream from a contaminated
[00:12:00] space, not the same thing as treated water coming
[00:12:04] through the public drinking water system. You know, but
[00:12:08] this is exactly why the people are
[00:12:11] worried. When you have hazardous waste, when
[00:12:15] you have contaminated soil and
[00:12:17] PFAS that is detected in groundwater in the vicinity,
[00:12:21] people need more than reassurance. They need to
[00:12:25] to be sure that we still some short
[00:12:28] time for waste remediation and
[00:12:31] continuous independent and transparent monitoring.
[00:12:35] So we cannot tell citizens that the tap
[00:12:38] water is unsafe when its current official tests
[00:12:42] say it is safe, but where what
[00:12:45] we keep saying is, test it, publish the results,
[00:12:49] then continue monitoring and make all the data available to the
[00:12:52] public and above all everything to keep the water
[00:12:56] safe and that is the only way how to
[00:13:00] rebuild the trust.
[00:13:03] People in Gospić have been living next to this
[00:13:06] waste while waiting for answers and cleanup. What
[00:13:10] are people most afraid of today in
[00:13:12] Gospić?
[00:13:17] the unknown, you
[00:13:20] know, because they are worried about the
[00:13:23] water and about the soil, and possible long-term
[00:13:27] health consequences, but
[00:13:29] we think there's something even deeper. People are
[00:13:32] afraid that contamination,
[00:13:35] contamination could remain in the environment for years
[00:13:38] and even decades and
[00:13:42] especially because Gospić has a sensitive
[00:13:45] Karst environment. That's the the
[00:13:48] problem that gives up
[00:13:51] more problems with the remediation.
[00:13:55] Also, people are afraid that nobody will take
[00:13:57] responsibility. And imagine living
[00:14:01] next to thousands of tons of illegally dumped
[00:14:05] waste and repeatedly asking what is
[00:14:07] there, uh, is is some something something
[00:14:11] poisoned in my backyard?
[00:14:14] Are my vegetables okay or
[00:14:17] not? So people don't want political
[00:14:20] arguments. People, they want to know that their
[00:14:24] families, water and their environment are
[00:14:27] safe, but the analysis
[00:14:30] and new analysis don't show that. The state
[00:14:34] knew it was hazardous waste and the public
[00:14:38] was kept in the dark for two years. That's the main problem.
[00:14:41] For an entire year
[00:14:45] we had been demanding the analysis.
[00:14:47] We tried to get that analysis in
[00:14:51] publicity and we
[00:14:54] have the rights to get that analysis and after
[00:14:58] we threatened the
[00:15:01] government that we will close the
[00:15:04] highways in the middle of the tourist season, they
[00:15:08] they showed us the result of the analysis and the result
[00:15:12] of analysis was devastating.
[00:15:15] Your movement took the issue from Gospić to
[00:15:19] Zagreb with thousands of people joining the walk for
[00:15:22] Lika at the latest protest. What was the
[00:15:26] moment when you realized that petitions and demands
[00:15:29] were no longer enough and that people had to take to the
[00:15:33] streets?
[00:15:36] For a long time or a year and a half, uh, because we
[00:15:39] found out publicly about this situation in February
[00:15:43] of 2025 and
[00:15:46] for that long time for a year and a half, we tried to solve
[00:15:49] this through institutions. We tried to send thousands
[00:15:53] of letters, inquiries.
[00:15:56] We held meetings with some local, national
[00:15:59] authorities. We asked for information, we asked
[00:16:03] for analysis, we asked for urgent preventive
[00:16:07] measures and a clear mediation plan, but
[00:16:10] months went by and nothing happened. The turning
[00:16:14] point was the realization of the
[00:16:16] governance and environmental protection
[00:16:20] committee that's held in Gospić
[00:16:23] and when we saw that they were
[00:16:26] not actually there for people at all,
[00:16:30] that that was turned into some political
[00:16:33] infighting and that was the some
[00:16:37] moment when we started to when we knew that we have
[00:16:41] to do something and that was the
[00:16:44] moment when the walk for we for walk for Lika, walk for
[00:16:47] Croatia became necessary. Uh, for
[00:16:51] the end, please, Prime Minister Plenković after
[00:16:54] protests said the government would
[00:16:57] urgently consider this initiative and that
[00:17:00] a new waste management system would be established. Do you
[00:17:04] believe the government has finally taken real
[00:17:07] action?
[00:17:10] Uh, it seems today that the government has finally started
[00:17:14] taking some concrete steps and we
[00:17:17] acknowledge that. We do not need another
[00:17:20] promise. We need measurable and visible
[00:17:24] results. That's the only thing that we can
[00:17:27] say. If the government delivers that
[00:17:31] and
[00:17:33] we will be the first to acknowledge it. And this is not a
[00:17:45] Thank you so much for being our guest in Across the Balkans
[00:17:48] and I hope as soon as possible the Lika will be
[00:17:52] clean and happy as it was again. Thank you so much. Thank you
[00:17:55] very much. We hope also. Thank
[00:17:58] you.
[00:18:04] Across Europe, more people than ever rely on
[00:18:07] prescription medicine from public funded pharmacies, but an
[00:18:11] increasing number of these pharmacies now belong to a
[00:18:14] handful of large chains. This has left
[00:18:17] governments facing a question they are only
[00:18:20] starting to answer: who guarantees that people can still
[00:18:24] get the medicine they need? In Serbia's
[00:18:27] capital, the public pharmacy network is close to collapse
[00:18:30] and the city that owns it wants to hand it to a private
[00:18:34] operator. Katarina Petrović reports from Belgrade.
[00:19:07] to sell it to him. The state must guarantee that we will have medicine.
[00:19:11] With the loss of the public pharmacies, the citizens
[00:19:15] have lost trust and
[00:19:17] confidence in the healthcare system. On the 28th of
[00:19:21] July, after almost a year of protest, Serbia's president
[00:19:25] called the workers in. They left saying every demand had been
[00:19:28] accepted: medicines and operating funds within two
[00:19:32] weeks, back pay by mid September, health insurance
[00:19:35] restored. In return, three to six months to prove the
[00:19:39] network can compete on the market. Three weeks on,
[00:19:42] only the health insurance has come through, valid until the end of
[00:19:46] September. No medicines, no money, nothing in
[00:19:49] writing. The city did not respond to our request for an
[00:19:53] interview. Its position is on record. The mayor once called
[00:19:57] selling the institution the only solution. The assembly
[00:20:00] later voted for a concession instead, citing around
[00:20:04] 5 million dollars in support in taking its
[00:20:07] debt. Serbia is not short of pharmacies. There
[00:20:11] are around 4,000 nationwide, more
[00:20:14] pharmacies than Serbia has pharmacists to staff them.
[00:20:18] What it is short of is the kind of pharmacy that opens at 3 in the
[00:20:22] morning, that mixes a medicine no factory makes
[00:20:25] anymore, that stocks the things nobody makes money
[00:20:28] selling. Belgrade now has a few months to decide
[00:20:32] whether that is worth paying for.
[00:20:36] Here we are sitting on the Zemun embankment, right?
[00:20:39] 200 to 300 meters from us is the Belgrade pharmacy, which
[00:20:43] was the duty pharmacy for for for for all of Zemun. This
[00:20:46] somehow we felt safe because we knew that...
[00:20:50] that we don't have to worry when we'll need medicine,
[00:20:53] that it's always there for us and that it will be
[00:20:57] open, and there worked some women for whom we
[00:21:01] were sure that they somehow work for us. Savo
[00:21:04] Filipović, head of Serbia's patients
[00:21:07] association.
[00:21:12] I very much support both private healthcare and private
[00:21:16] pharmacies. I have nothing against that, I just think we should have
[00:21:20] both, then one can choose. Until
[00:21:24] 2013, only public pharmacies
[00:21:27] dispensed state-funded prescriptions. Private
[00:21:30] ones then wanted the same right, but not the same rules.
[00:21:34] In Serbia we have a regulation problem. In
[00:21:37] fact there are no regulations on how pharmacies in
[00:21:41] general can be opened and where. You may
[00:21:44] find some pharmacies back to back, side by side, four
[00:21:48] or five pharmacies being located together, such
[00:21:51] as the green markets or the bus
[00:21:54] stops, etc. A public pharmacy could only
[00:21:58] open where it served at least 4,000 people. In
[00:22:01] contrast, a private one can open anywhere it expects a
[00:22:05] profit. Across Europe, aging populations and recurring
[00:22:08] shortages have made equal access more
[00:22:11] urgent. There is a rule about
[00:22:13] geolocation, servicing equally, uh,
[00:22:17] citizens of that country irrespective.
[00:22:25] when a lady who was somewhere
[00:22:27] in her 70s came to look for daily catheters for her husband,
[00:22:30] people cannot function without them even for a day, I tried in
[00:22:34] our system to see if there were any left anywhere, there weren't any, and
[00:22:38] she said, I have visited over 50
[00:22:41] pharmacies and I can't find this, what should I do?
[00:22:44] Even today I am thinking about what they did, how they managed.
[00:22:48] These are things that are unprofitable, because you have a 4% profit
[00:22:52] on aids, meaning you have no profit. The public network
[00:22:56] also compounds medicines the market no longer supplies
[00:22:59] or cannot supply during shortages. More than
[00:23:03] 90% of staff are women, many nearing
[00:23:06] retirement. Their wages stopped and their health
[00:23:09] insurance with them. my colleague sold everything
[00:23:12] she could, after that, since she had no choice, she applied
[00:23:16] to receive a meal at the public kitchen. However, they refused her because she was employed,
[00:23:20] on the other hand, she couldn't pay for her own therapy either, because
[00:23:24] her health books were not activated. The
[00:23:27] city has also brought 28 rent cases against
[00:23:30] its own institutions, involving premises it occupies
[00:23:34] but does not own. Workers say the pressure is
[00:23:37] deliberate, pushing them towards bankruptcy and
[00:23:40] concession. Founder's rights passed to the city of
[00:23:43] Belgrade in 2007. As
[00:23:45] founder, the city funds it, and its assembly voted for the
[00:23:49] concession. Yet the rescue promise came from the president. The
[00:23:53] promise was made in one place, the money and the
[00:23:56] decision sit in another. We have nothing in writing
[00:23:59] and as far as I've noticed, a record was
[00:24:02] kept, but it wasn't handed to us. Novi Sad and
[00:24:05] Kruševac have already transferred their public pharmacies to Benu and
[00:24:09] Dr. Max, among Europe's largest chains, Zrenjanin
[00:24:13] to another private operator. Everyone says you have a good example,
[00:24:17] I don't know, concessions in Novi Sad, yes, but Novi Sad and...
[00:24:50] question, who guarantees that a person gets their medicine, the state or
[00:24:54] the market? Medicine is not a commodity, it is a
[00:24:57] therapy, it helps people. It is a public good and a
[00:25:01] matter of state responsibility at the end of the day. The first deadline
[00:25:05] has already passed, without medicines on the shelves, the test
[00:25:08] cannot even begin and the wage debt now stands at
[00:25:11] roughly $10 million dollars. The workers have already told the
[00:25:15] president what they want, to remain what they have been for
[00:25:19] decades: a public service people can rely on when they
[00:25:22] need medicine, because in a public network, access to
[00:25:26] medicine does not depend on where someone lives, what they
[00:25:30] can afford, or whether supplying it turns a
[00:25:33] profit. Katarina Petrović, Across the Balkans,
[00:25:36] Belgrade.
[00:25:42] People in their twilight years are generally slowing down,
[00:25:45] retiring and living a more relaxing life, but not
[00:25:49] Doctor Apostolov. He is still doing the rounds in the
[00:25:52] Bulgarian village of Skrat at 90 years
[00:25:55] old, and he's not the only one as Adam
[00:25:59] explains.
[00:26:02] 90-year-old general practitioner Kiril Apostolov is one of the last
[00:26:06] doctors standing in Bulgaria's Skrat, which is near the border
[00:26:10] of Greece and North Macedonia.
[00:26:13] Despite his age, he can still walk up a hill every week and do house
[00:26:17] calls for his patients.
[00:26:19] Many GPs are working past retirement age across the
[00:26:22] country, because there are fewer younger doctors to replace
[00:26:26] them.
[00:26:30] For now, I feel good. the work doesn't bother me,
[00:26:34] I still feel pleasure,
[00:26:37] as long as
[00:26:39] I'm good and
[00:26:43] the patients are happy with
[00:26:44] me.
[00:26:47] It seems to me that there will hardly be anyone to, with
[00:26:51] pleasure I would
[00:26:53] step aside for someone to come to work, but
[00:26:57] young doctors,
[00:27:01] before...
[00:27:03] a few days ago I wasn't well
[00:27:07] and my wife told me, "Don't bother the doctor while he's
[00:27:10] here," she said, "I won't bother him."
[00:27:13] I say
[00:27:17] I say it will pass and so
[00:27:21] constantly constantly
[00:27:24] I go to visit, I see sick people passing by
[00:27:27] here on our
[00:27:29] street.
[00:28:02] and here, I have no words to say, I'm so
[00:28:06] grateful to him, he can walk, he can
[00:28:09] come, he's older than me, I don't carry a stick, I carry two
[00:28:13] but I don't have to, let him help
[00:28:16] people like this, in 2023,
[00:28:20] 54.5%.
[00:28:29] younger doctors taking up GP positions,
[00:28:32] especially in rural areas due to several factors such as
[00:28:36] bureaucracy, poor career opportunities and low
[00:28:39] pay. For now, Kirol and elder
[00:28:42] doctors like him will continue to treat those most in
[00:28:45] need, but when these doctors finally hang up their jackets and
[00:28:49] stethoscopes, who will be next to climb up hills like
[00:28:52] this? Adamunu across the
[00:28:55] Balkans. That's all from us on across the
[00:28:58] Balkans. The region continues to change, and we will keep...
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[00:29:11] I'm Naja Muftic and we hope to see you next time.
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