Mevlid Jasarevic, the man behind the attack on the US embassy in Sarajevo, said in the closing words of his trial that similar attacks will take place for as long as “Americans kill Muslims”.Awaiting his sentence, Jasarevic told the Bosnian State Court on December 3 that another attack like one …

Victor Ponta has recruited a 25-year-old geek to revolutionise the business of public sector job advertising.Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday announced that he had hired Cristian Botan, a 25-year-old PhD candidate, to bring more transparency into the work of government job adverts. Ponta said he had taken on the …

President Rosen Plevneliev has suggested that political parties in Bulgaria should seal a national pact for EU funds absorption. Speaking Monday during the 7th annual meeting of the government with the business sector, he explained that the idea behind the national pact was to prevent next governments from interfering in …

Serbia will reiterate its request that the Hague Tribunal allows its citizens, who are convicted before this court, to serve their sentences in the country.According to the Head of Serbian National Council for Cooperation with the ICTY, Rasim Ljajic, Serbia is already negotiating this issue with the ICTY. “The final …

Bosnia’s Finance Minister, Nikola Spiric, has sustained serious injuries on Friday night in a car accident near the town of Drvar, north-west Bosnia.The State Finance Minister, Nikola Spiric, had a hip operation on Saturday in a Banja Luka hospital following the car crash the night before. Following the operation, the …

Following a RECOM round table in Skopje, the Macedonian President, Gjorge Ivanov, met the team of regional REKOM advocates.REKOM advocates from Macedonia, Biljana Vankovska, from Bosnia, Zdravko Grebo, and from Serbia, Natasa Kandic met with Ivanov on Sunday.

Sofia has urged its neighbour to take three clear steps if it wants to secure Bulgarian support for Macedonia’s EU integration process.Bulgaria has set its neighbour three conditions in return for its support in aiding Macedonian integration into the European Union. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov sent a letter to …

Many Macedonians hope that Johan Tarculovski, the only Macedonian national convicted for war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, could soon be released following the recent acquittals of Kosovo’s Ramush Haradinaj and Croatia’s Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac.“Free Johan immediately!”, “Only our Johan remains to rot in jail”, and “End the …

Naspers has expanded its online holdings by purchasing Romania’s main online retailer.The South African-based media conglomerate Naspers has paid 80 million US dollars for a majority stake in the Romanian site emag.ro, media reported. This is one of the largest transactions in the Romanian online sector so far. Emag.ro was …

In the next 2014-2020 programming period, Bulgaria will allocate the main portion of funds under Operational Program Competitiveness to innovations and energy efficiency, according to Delyan Dobrev, Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism. Speaking Thursday during an international forum on industry and innovations, he argued that these sustainable solutions would …