Authorities advise people to take precautions as the country expects a scorching blast of heat in coming days – up to 39 degrees Celsius.It may still be officially only spring, but Macedonia is already roasting under a heatwave with daily temperatures for several days in a row exceeding 37 degrees. …

Well-known artists accuse the government of trying to take over the institute charged with promoting Romania’s country’s culture abroad.omania’s new centre-left government has courted a row with the arts world after abruptly adopting changes to the running of the Romanian Cultural Institute. Modelled on the British Council and France’s Institut …

Two cadets of the Serbian Military Academy died and seven suffered injuries at the Pasuljanske Livade training range in the central Serbia on Monday morning.The Serbian Defence Ministry has announced that two students of the fourth year of the Military Academy were killed by “a leftover 33mm grenade” near the …

Opposition supporters on Friday protested against plans to rename hundreds of streets in the capital, accusing the authorities of re-writing history – but the ruling party insists that most of the criticism is misplaced.Opposition Social Democrats say the move by the ruling VMRO DPMNE party is part of a bid …

Albania’s parties failed to elect a president in the third round of voting by MPs for the presidency. The main opposition Socialists blamed

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic believes that Serbia has done everything asked of it in order to start EU accession talks in the fall. “I expect to finally find out in Brussels what no one in Serbia has heard so far, which is whether

Vuk Jeremic, the outgoing Serbian Foreign Minister, has become the first Serb to preside over the UN General Assembly. Representatives of the UN member states have elected Vuk Jeremic of the Democratic Party in Serbia as president of the UN General Assembly.

Romania has approved the Iasi-Ungheni gas pipeline which will allow gas transport between Romania and Moldova. Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta classified this project as strategic for political cooperation between the two sides. “It is about a draft law agreed for longer time at the principle, political

Finland supports Skopje’s EU aspirations. This was officially announced by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto after a meeting with Nikola Gruevski in Helsinki. Prime Minister Gruevski explained that talks with President Niinisto were focused mainly on bilateral relations, Skopje’s EU enlargement and accession and the country’s name issue.

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday in Vukovar that his country seeks to create good relations with every country, and that includes Serbia. “I hope that the positions of newly elected Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will change. We have made significant progress in relations in the past two to …