TIRANA, Albania nearly a week after parliamentary elections, Albania’s governing Democratic Party began to assemble a coalition government on Saturday, even as the opposition Socialists decried the move as premature.
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Albania’s socialists threaten street protests after election defeat
TIRANA, Albania’s opposition Socialists are threatening to hold street protests after election authorities declared Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s Democrats had won enough seats in last weekend’s election to form a government.
Read More »Romania gets European loan for new metro line
BUCHAREST Romania will get a 370-million-euro (517-million-dollar) loan from the European Investment Bank to build a new metro line in Bucharest, Transport Minister Radu Berceanu said Saturday.
Read More »Record Number of People Registered to Cast Vote in Bulgaria Kardzhali
70 000 more Bulgarian citizens ,compared to the MEP elections, have been registered to cast vote in the South-East Kardzhali region. For the Parliament Elections which will be held Sunday, July 5, 220 229 have been registered, which is 70 000 people more than the MEP elections on June 7, …
Read More »US Ambassador McEldowney: Bulgaria People Expect Actions
The US Ambassador in Bulgaria, Nancy McEldowney, said that both Bulgarians and friends of Bulgaria expects specific actions to be taken by the next government. The Ambassador expressed said Saturday in an interview for Darik Radio that the new government must set clear goals and announce them in public. The …
Read More »Bulgaria to Lose Council of Europe Accreditation if Elections not Fair
If severe breaches are established during the Bulgarian Parliament elections day, the country may lose the accreditation of the Bulgarian delegation to the Council of Europe. This was announced Saturday by the head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) delegation to Bulgaria, Tadeusz Iwínski, Darik Radio …
Read More »Leftist Party To Join Albania’s Right-Wing Govt
The Socialist Movement for Integration, LSI, announced on Saturday, that it had accepted a request from right-wing incumbent Prime Minister Sali Berisha, to join the ruling coalition after last Sunday’s poll. Speaking at a press conference in Tirana, the LSI head and former Socialist Prime Minister Ilir Meta said that …
Read More »Cred, cu toate că e absurd!
„Dacă România reuşeşte să parcurgă în 30 de ani drumul spre UE… va fi foarte bine” (Vladimir Voronin, preşedintele PCRM, anul 2000) Credo, quia absurdum! Cred, cu toate că e absurd! Aşa obişnuia să răspundă marele teolog Tertulian celor care, păşind după normele elementare ale logicii, încercau să îi demonteze …
Read More »Saslušan Sefer Halilović o trošenju novca za povratak
SARAJEVO – Sefer Halilović, poslanik u parlamentu BiH, saslušan je u srijedu u Tužilaštvu BiH koje je aktueliziralo istragu o nepravilnostima u izboru kompanija za nabavku građevinskog materijala za poslove koji su finansirani sredstvima Federalnog ministarstva socijalne skrbi, izbjeglica i rasljenih lica. “Sefer Halilović bio je ministar socijalne skrbi, izbjeglica …
Read More »Croatian parliament approves Sanader’s resignation
ZAGREB, Croatia Parliament on Thursday (July 2nd) approved the surprise resignation of Ivo Sanader from his post as prime minister. This starts the clock on up to 30 days of consultations before President Stipe Mesic taps a successor. The frontrunner is Sanader’s choice, Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, of the …
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