Nelu Iordache, a businessman, has been detained for 29 days in a case involving an alleged EU fund embezzlement.Nelu Iordache, the owner of a low cost airline and of a construction company, has detained under suspicion of embezzling some 5.5 million euros from the EU funds supposed to be used …

Berlin think tank launches upgraded initiative to solve the dispute between Macedonia and Greece so that the former can advance its EU integration.The lead analyst of the European Stability Initiative, Gerald Knaus, said the solution would foresee a change to Macedonia’s name that would come into force permanently on the …

The international reaction to the Hague Tribunal acquittal of the former Kosovo PM, Ramush Haradinaj, mirrors the mixed reactions in the region.The EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fule, has said that the EU would not comment on Haradinaj’s acquittal, as the EU did not want to interfere in the work …

Serbia was the only country in the region to support Palestine’s bid for upgraded observer status in the UN on Thursday’s vote.Serbia was the only Balkan country to support Palestine’s successful bid on Thursday for non-member observer status in the UN. Member states voted 138-9 in favour of the vote, …

Noting the 100th anniversary of Albania’s independence, Kim Yong Nam, reclusive leader of North Korea, sent greetings to President Bujar Nishani on Wednesday.“Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly, Wednesday sent a message of greeting to Albanian President Bujar Nishani on the occasion of …

Most Balkan countries appeared likely to abstain from Thursday’s vote on upgrading Palestine’s status, which looked set to pass the General Assembly easily.Most Balkan countries looked set to abstain from Thursday’s vote on Palestine’s request for upgraded observer status at the United Nations. The General Assembly appeared likely to endorse …

The Hague Tribunal, ICTY, has passed non-guilty verdict in the retrial of former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and two more ex Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, commanders.Haradinaj, former Prime Minister of Kosovo, and his two co-defendants, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, are acquitted of all charges of committing war crimes …

Albanians will one day live in united state, as that is God’s will, the head of Macedonia’s Islamic Religious Community, IVZ, Sulejman Rexhepi, has told an interviewer.Macedonian leaders have condemned the the country’s leading Muslim cleric for calling for a pan-Albanian state. Speaking to an Albanian-language newspaper, Zhurnal Plus, Rexhepi …

The lustration process is being conducted contrary to Constitutional Court rulings and is violating human rights, a round table in Skopje organized by the Open Society-Macedonia foundation heard.“Lustration is hampering human rights and undermining [Macedonia’s] security system” by exposing an informants’ network, Vladimir Pivovoarov, a law professor at FON University, …

Order to place picture of President Nikolic on embassy walls draws mocking response from some at home.Serbia’s Foreign Ministry has told embassies and diplomatic missions across the world to place a photograph of President Tomislav Nikolic on an appropriate wall. “We inform you that it is necessary that in appropriate …