Eurasia Press & News
The World Bank chief of mission in Albania, Camille Nuamah, on Wednesday presented the bank’s report on the controversial demolition of a village in southern Albania, blaming the government in Tirana as well as the project coordinator, the son-in-law of Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha. According to the management report, …
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Russia To Delay Serbia Pipeline-Report
Russia’s Gazprom and Serbia’s gas company Srbijagas have decided to postpone “for some time” the signing of an agreement on a joint venture for building the South Stream gas pipeline, previously due to start in early March. Politika daily quoted sources close to Gazprom as saying the reason was that …
Read More »Romania Likely To Seek New Loans
Romania’s Finance Minister says Romani will probably soon start negotiations with the International Monetary Fund or the European Union for a grant aimed at protecting its slowing economy from the global financial crisis. “It is better to avoid a crisis, than to face it. And no loan is too expensive …
Read More »Isolation shields Afghanistan from financial crisis
KABUL (Reuters) – Devastated by nearly three decades of war, Afghanistan‘s isolation from world trade and global finance might for once be to its advantage, shielding the country from the economic and financial meltdown abroad. Sandwiched between Kabul’s main mosque and a foul-smelling river is the teeming money market where …
Read More »Standard & Poor’s: Bulgaria among Eastern Europe States Vulnerable to Crisis
he economies of Bulgaria and Romania are much more vulnerable to the effects of the global financial crisis compared to those of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. This becomes clear from a report of the financial analysis agency, Standard & Poor’s, cited by the Financial Times. Standard & Poor’s …
Read More »Mladic Liked Beach Holidays, Was Stingy – Reports
Serbia’s secret services are discovering more details about top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic every day, with the latest information suggesting he spent a two-week holiday on the Montenegrin coast in 1997 but was stingy and ungracious with his guards and staff. With Mladic’s arrest a condition for Serbia’s European …
Read More »EU May Unblock Serbia Deal In March- Asselborn
The European Union will probably in March unfreeze a trade agreement with Serbia and ratify the pre-accession Stabilisation and Association Agreement, Luxemburg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said on Wednesday in an interview. Serbia signed the SAA in April 2008, but there has been no consensus in the EU on its …
Read More »Kosovo’s Haradinaj: Ready To Mediate in Uganda
Kosovo’s former Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, said he was willing to be the mediator for peace talks in Uganda between the government in Kampala and the Muslim Allied Democratic Forces rebels. The Allied Democratic Forces, ADF, said they wanted Haradinaj, a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army acquitted last …
Read More »Kosovo’s Sejdiu Awarded US Leadership Prize
During a visit to the University of Arizona, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu was given its award for “Distinguished Global Leadership” for people who promote international and intercultural cooperation. In his speech, Sejdiu thanked the United States for its “eternal support” toward Kosovo and took care to thank separately all US …
Read More »One Wounded in Novi Pazar Shoot-Out
One man was wounded in Novi Pazar overnight on Monday in a shoot-out between two men supporting rival political and religious factions in the local Bosniak community. Police arrested a 38-year old man on suspicion that he attempted to murder 27-year old Nermin Ademovic, who suffered injuries in the stomach, …
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