The chairman of the Serbian National Council in Croatia has expressed his dissatisfaction that the homes of Serb returnees to Croatia were being rebuilt slowly.Speaking on Tuesday at the opening a regional conference on Serbian-Croatian relations held near the Croatian town of Obrovac, Milorad Pupovac, the chairman of the Serbian …
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EULEX Charges Eight Kosovo Judges with Corruption
Six Kosovo Albanians and two Kosovo Serbs, all former judges, have been charged with corruption by the EU rule of law mission to Kosovo, EULEX.EULEX prosecutors have charged the former President of Pristina’s Municipal Court, Nuhi Uka and seven other local judges with embezzlement. The former judges are suspected of …
Read More »Croatia Publishes List of 100,000 Tax Debtors
Croatia’s Finance Ministry on Tuesday published a list of over 102,000 companies and individuals who have failed to pay the state millions of euros in taxes.The list of companies that owe the state is headed by the Zagreb-based Tempo construction company, with a tax debt of HRK 292 million [€39 …
Read More »Macedonian Lustration Body Names Informants
The Macedonian Lustration Commission named 11 people as collaborators with the former police and state security agencies on Monday, under the newly adopted Lustration Law.The eleven alleged police informants are the same people who had been lustrated under the old law that was scrapped by the Constitutional Court, which ruled …
Read More »Serbia Arrests Kosovo Albanian for War Crimes
The family of Nehat Haliti says that his arrest is meant to scare the Kosovo Albanians, and that he has no connection with the alleged war crimes he is charged with.The family of Nehat Haliti, who was arrested over the weekend in Serbia on war crimes charges, denies that he …
Read More »Earthquakes Hit Central Bosnia
Two earthquakes which hit Zenica on Monday with a magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale has frightened thousands of people living in Central Bosnia.An earthquake shook the town of Zenica on July 30, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, and was followed by a weaker one. The epicentre was seven …
Read More »Greek coalition leaders to debate spending cuts
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was to confer with his coalition allies on Monday on spending cuts needed to unlock a 31.5-billion-euro loan instalment from the country’s EU-IMF rescue package. Samaras was to see his two partners — socialist Evangelos Venizelos and moderate leftist Fotis Kouvelis — at 1500 GMT, …
Read More »Montenegrin Restaurant Refuses to Serve Serbs
The owner of a restaurant in a Montenegrin village has thrown out a woman and her five small children for being Serbs.Veselinka Rajkovic, a resident of Podgorica, was visiting the monastery of Prevlaka accompanied by a Serbian Orthodox nun – the children’s religous teacher. Rajkovic told Vijesti, a Podgorica based …
Read More »Cull of Editors on Croatian TV Causes Protests
Around 40 editors at Croatian state television will be sacked or demoted, a local newspaper has reported – but bosses of the station deny carrying out a purge.According to Vecernji List, a Croatian daily newspaper, the TV’s new management has already replaced seven out of nine editors in charge of …
Read More »Dacic Presents Goals of Serbia’s New Govt
Prime Minister designate presents the programme of the future government whose 19 members took their oaths of office on Friday.The sound of the national anthem and the presence of a ceremonial guard marked the ceremony when Serbia’s new cabinet members took their oath of office. They failed to be sworn …
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