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Slovenia Pressured Not to Delay Croatia’s EU Accession

Brussels officials say they expect Slovenia to ratify Croatia’s EU accession agreement on time, so that it can become a member state on July 1, Croatian and Slovenian media report.”Barrosso expects Slovenia to meet the deadline and ratify Croatia’s accession agreement by July 1,” the Slovenian daily Delo’s Brussels correspondent …

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Nimetz Arrives in Skopje for ‘Name’ Talks

The UN mediator in the Greek-Macedonian ‘name’ dispute, Matthew Nimetz, has arrived in Skopje after previously visiting Athens.Nimetz is set to meet Macedonian officials and present fresh ideas for overcoming the long-standing impasse. On Wednesday, Nimetz met Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos in Athens. After …

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Serbia Predicts Balkan Drug Lord’s Arrest

Authorities are predicting the imminent arrest of Serbia’s most wanted criminal, Darko Saric, who has been on the run for three years.Serbian media are reporting that the Serbian police, together with US Drug Enforcement bodies, are undertaking intensive action on locating Darko Saric, a man seen as a major drug …

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Study Slams Croatia’s Failing Public Sector

Government commissioned ‘Clean Start’ project uncovers huge financial holes in ministries and public sector companies and lists a catalogue of systemic shortcomings.A government commissioned study of Croatia’s public sector has uncovered massive hidden debts and a poor culture of management. Croatia paid the international advisory firms KPMG and BDO 2.3 …

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Macedonian Capital to Recycle Communal Waste

An Italian company in partnership with the city will invest €73 million in order to turn Skopje’s communal waste landfill into a modern recycling facility.The public-private partnership deal that the city signed with the Italian consortium, FCL AMBIENTE SRL and UNIECO SCC COOP, aims to cut the amount of waste …

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Greece making big efforts, Greek PM tells Germany

Merkel says EU must agree more reforms by June summiteece is making enormous efforts to get its economy back on track despite the pain this involves for its citizens, its prime minister Antonis Samaras said on Tuesday on a visit to Germany, chief champion of austerity in Europe. German Chancellor …

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Hague Tribunal Hears Mass Grave Testimony

The trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic resumed for 2013 with testimony about the exhumation of war crimes victims from mass graves.Davor Strinovic, a Croatian medical expert who was part of a commission tasked with finding missing people, said he helped to exhume bodies at the Ovcara farm …

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Albania PM Slams Serbia Monument Removal Threat

Prime Minister Sali Berisha said Serbia’s threat to remove a memorial to ethnic Albanian fighters in the Presevo Valley breaks international law.“In every free country it’s the local authorities and not the central government that decides which historical or cultural monuments to erect,” Berisha said in a statement on Sunday. …

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Bosnian Serb Jailed for Srebrenica Genocide

A Sarajevo court upheld the jailing of a Bosnian Serb army officer over the 1995 Srebrenica killings but cut his sentence.The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court endorsed the conviction of Slavko Peric, a former assistant commander, but reduced his prison sentence from 19 to 11 years. It also …

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