Monthly Archives: July 2009

Albania: Bombing Linked To Business Row

Albanian police said on Thursday that a car bombing in front the national assembly building in Tirana was most like linked to a possible business dispute involving the owner of the vehicle. The car, a Mercedes Benz SUV owned by a local businessman, exploded on Wednesday evening, damaging shops and …

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Italian Fighter Jets To Patrol Albania Airspace

Italy’s air force squadrons will patrol Albanian airspace, following the country’s accession into the NATO alliance in April. According to the restructuring plans of the Albanian armed forces, Tirana has retired its ailing MIG fighter jet fleet, while in the framework of NATO, the integrity of the country’s airspace, has …

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Bulgaria Poll Victor Given New Govt Deadline

Boyko Borisov, deputy president of the Bulgarian Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, which won general elections last month, has been handed a mandate to form a new government within seven days, Bulgaria’s Focus news agency reported. Under Bulgarian law, Borisov, GERB’s informal leader and likely new prime minister, …

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Serbia Supports Non-Aligned Movement

Regardless of its EU aspirations, Serbia will continue to support the Non-Aligned Movement’s main objectives, Serbian President Boris Tadic said Thursday at a closing session of the movement’s summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. “We encourage the movement’s commitment to promoting democratization and international relations, and respecting of universal human rights,” …

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Albania: Mixed Reactions To Visa Decision

The European Commission’s decision not to grant visa-free travel to Albanian citizens has been met with little surprise in Tirana, where the issue was the subject of heated debate during the recent election campaign. Opposition leader Edi Rama, who is the mayor of Tirana, told reporters that the EU rejection …

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Comuniştii plătesc muzica, Opoziţia trebuie să schimbe partitura!

„O minciună repetată de o mie de ori rămâne o minciună, o minciună repetată de un milion de ori devine adevăr” (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Ministrul Propagandei Publice în timpul regimului nazist) Campania electorală din RM oferă, deocamdată, mai multe incertitudini decât certitudini. Certe sunt doar agenda electorală şi faptul că …

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Problem zvani BiH

Građani BiH još će najmanje godinu stajati u redovima pred stranim ambasadama kako bi dobili vize za putovanje u zemlje EU. Tako je u srijedu saopćila, a mnogo ranije odlučila EK. Šefovi vlada Evropske unije smatraju kako su Srbija, Crna Gora i Makedonija uradile više od BiH i Albanije, te …

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Ispunjavanje uslova za vize do oktobra

SARAJEVO – Čelnici pet vladajućih stranaka usaglasili su se na jučerašnjem sastanku u Sarajevu da vlasti BiH najkasnije do oktobra ove godine moraju ispuniti sve uslove za liberalizaciju viznog režima. Nadaju se da bi Vijeće EU u tom slučaju moglo i BiH uvrstiti među zemlje čijim građanima od 1. januara …

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Nova šansa za BiH tek dogodine

SARAJEVO – Evropska komisija tek će sredinom naredne godine ponovo razmotriti mogućnost ukidanja viza za građane BiH. U prijedlogu Evropske komisije za ukidanje viza zemljama zapadnog Balkana, koji je jučer zvanično predstavljen u Briselu, konstatovano je da ni Albanija nije ispunila uslove, dok je preporučeno da državljani Srbije, Crne Gore …

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