Bulgaria’s Deputy PM and Education Minister, Daniel Valchev, requested Tuesday a referendum on education reform. Valchev spoke in connection with statements made by the Bulgarian President, Georgi Parvanov, who promised to schedule a referendum about the election system. The Deputy Prime Minister stated it was very important to ask Bulgarian …

Bosnia’s first international envoy, Carl Bildt, has met its latest High Representative, Valentin Inzko, to discuss the country’s future. Bildt, now Swedish Foreign Minister, arrived in the Bosnian capital on Tuesday as the first of three European foreign ministers expected in Sarajevo this week. The flurry of high-profile guests is …

EU peacekeeping forces have raided a local logging company early Tuesday, in search for any information that could reveal the whereabouts of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect, Ratko Mladic who is still at large. The operation was carried out in line with the request of the International War Crimes Tribunal …

Bosnian Border Police have made two new arrests as a part of one of the biggest cross-border operations against organised crime and human trafficking gangs. Two men were arrested on Tuesday in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo and will be transferred to the Office of the state Public Prosecutor, said …

The Skopje court Monday afternoon sentenced the former Macedonian Vice Premier and former leader of the Democratic Alternative party, Vasil Tupurkovski to three years in prison for embezzlement. In the infamous “Taiwan Loans” case, Tupurkovski and one other person were charged for the misuse of funds. The money is question …

Kosovo’s prime minister has suspended seven officials the day after the publication of a damning report on corruption. A report by Kosovo’s anti-corruption agency revealed on Monday that 113 officials are suspected of corruption. According to the investigation for 2008, employees of the government and the courts head the list …

Kosovo’s Vetevendosje (Self-determination) movement is accusing Kosovo’s government of financially supporting Serbia’s illegal institutions in the newly independent country. Vetevendosje, led by Albin Kurti, a former student leader and war prisoner of the Milosevic regime, claims that the government has no intention to fight the mechanisms of the state of …

In a ceremony held in Brussels on Tuesday the flags of Albania and Croatia were raised at the NATO headquarters. Present at the ceremony headed by NATO General Secretary Japp de Hoop Schefer, were Albania’s Prime Minister Sali Berisha, his Croatian counterpart Ivo Sanader and the foreign ministers of the …

The UN mission in Kosovo is no longer needed, a delegation from the European Parliament said on Monday. Doris Pack, head of the European Parliament’s delegation for the West Balkans, made the comments after a meeting with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. The European mission in Kosovo, EULEX, declared itself …

European Union, NATO and United States’ top officials are praising the recent peaceful and democratically run Macedonian elections. The presidential and municipal poll on Sunday, which cemented the power of the ruling conservative VMRO DPMNE party was seen as a test of the country’s democratic credentials. The vote was closely …