The Kosovo and Montenegrin Presidents have urged Serbia’s President, Tomislav Nikolic, to attend a planned regional summit in Montenegro.Arber Vlahiu, spokesperson for Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga, said that she would like to meet Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic at the summit of regional heads of states due to be held by …
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Spat Between Nikolic and Izetbegovic Continues
The Serbian President, Tomislav Nikolic, says that his remarks about Bosnia have been taken out of context, adding that Serbia has contributed greatly to the regional stability.Referring to an open letter sent to him on Tuesday by the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, the Serbian president said …
Read More »Serbia Arrests More Suspects in Agrobanka Affair
Police arrest more suspects in the case of the state-owned bank as Deputy PM Vucic warns that investigation is far from over.
Read More »Albania President Urged to Declare Election Date
The Coalition of Local Observers, a Tirana-based watchdog group, on Tuesday urged President Bujar Nishani to declare the date of the 2013 elections as soon as possible.According to the NGOs, “the declaration of an election date would give public institutions the time they need to start a series of important …
Read More »Muslims in Bosnia keep out Serb mayor
Bosnian Muslims have voted down a bid to put a Serb mayor in control of Srebrenica for the first time since the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the town by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995. Once predominantly Muslim, Srebrenica was the site of the worst mass killing on European soil …
Read More »Bosnia SDP Forces Out SDA Ministers at Last
Social Democrats finally get their way and expel ministers from the Bosniak Party of Democratic Action, SDA, from the state government.Two SDA ministers and a deputy minister were removed from Bosnia’s Council of Ministers on October 22 after the largest Croatian party declined to vote against the proposal. Sulejman Tihic, …
Read More »Hadzic Opposed Return of Croats, Witness Says
The ICTY defendant, Goran Hadzic, acted with other Serbian leaders to prevent the return of Croats to the Serb-run parts of Croatia during the 1990s, says one of the leaders of the Croatian Serbs, Veljko Dzakula.The trial of the former leader of the Croatian Serbs, Goran Hadzic, continued at the …
Read More »Montenegro Court Facilities Inadequate, NGO Says
Poor infrastructure and lack of space are some of the biggest problems in the country’s judicial system, an NGO report says.A report on trial monitoring by a Montenegrin NGO, the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, CEDEM, says the principles of publicity, presumption of innocence and right to efficient defence …
Read More »Albania Ex-Political Prisoners Quit Hunger Strike
Six former political prisoners on Monday ended a month-long hunger strike, which aimed to pressure the government to speed up reparations for their suffering under the Communists.“We are tired because of the psychological terror we were subjected too,” Afrim Biturku, one of the strikers, said, ending the strike. “But we …
Read More »Ex-Commissioner Proposes Minister for EU’s Poorest Region
The Bulgaria for Citizens party of former EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva has proposed the establishment of a new ministerial portfolio for Bulgaria’s Severozapaden (northwestern) region, the poorest NUTS 2 region in the EU.
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