Yearly Archives: 2012

Second round of Serbian Presidential elections to be held on May 20

The second round of presidential elections in Serbia has started a day after Democrat leader Boris Tadic won the largest percentage of votes in the first round, on 26.7 per cent, closely followed by the Progressives’ Tomislav Nikolic who won 25.5 per cent. Tadic and Nikolic therefore will go into …

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EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule, expressed satisfaction with Skopje progress

European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule, during a visit to Skopje, has expressed his satisfaction with the dialog between Macedonia and the EU and with the progress achieved. The Commission said the European program is the core of the public debate, despite the existence of lots of challenging issues.

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OSCE PA economic forum to be held in Georgia between May 11-14

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will organize the spring economic forum in Batumi (Georgia) between May 11-14. The forum is expected to focus the discussion on economic challenges of both regional and global importance. Around 250 guests from different countries of the world, including 120 MPs will attend the event.

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon raised concerns over Kosovo tensions

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says that vandalism, threats and attacks on facilities of the Serbian Orthodox Church are on the rise in Kosovo, which could make difficult the on-progress Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. In his latest report, the UN chief says the number of crimes against minority

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Bosnia to hold local elections on October 7

Bosnia will organize local elections on October 7 in 139 municipalities, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on Monday in Sarajevo. CEC President, Branko Peric, said that 3,213,562 citizens will be eligible for vote, 190,000 more than the last local election in 2008. “Some of the financing will come from …

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Lucas Papademos resigns as Greek PM

Greek political parties have to assure stability, confidence and solidarity to complete the effort to restore the economy. That is what Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, who handed in his resignation to the President of the country Carolos Papoulias said.

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Romania’s new government passes Parliament vote

Romania’s new centre-left government headed by Victor Ponta on Monday won a vote of confidence in parliament, pledging to pursue reforms while seeking to correct social imbalances. The cabinet will be sworn in later in the day during a ceremony at the presidential palace.

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