Eurasia Press & News
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov became a bearer of the Cavalier of the Grand Cross for having achieved “great contributions to the Italian Republic”, a Bulgarian Government media statement said on October 15 2009. The award was given by Borissov’s Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi at a commemoration ceremony in honour …
Read More »Ambassadors Press Skopje On Name Dispute
The settlement of the Athens-Skopje name row is not an official precondition for Macedonia’s EU accession talks but will create a better climate for the same, ambassadors say. This according to the Swedish and EU ambassadors to Macedonia, Lars Freden and Erwan Fouere. Sweden currently holds the EU presidency.
Read More »Bishop Sentenced for Embezzlement
A renegade former Macdedonian Orthodox Church, MPC, bishop, Jovan Vraniskovski, has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for embezzlement by a Macedonian court. A court in the town of Veles found Vraniskowski guilty of embezzling 320,000 euros while in charge of three Macedonian dioceses. He was …
Read More »Bosnia Celebrates UNSC Berth
The UN General Assembly has elected Bosnia and Herzegovina a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, UNSC, to the delight of local officials. The country’s election is “The biggest achievement of Bosnia and Herzegovina foreign policy since independence in 1992,” boasted the main headline in Friday’s edition of Sarajevo …
Read More »Macedonia’s president visits Turkey
Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov is paying an official visit to Turkey, media reported. Ivanov will meet today in Ankara with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ivanov today will lay a wreath at the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Read More »“Medvedev to address Serbian parliament”
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will be addressing the Serbian parliament during his visit to Belgrade. Medvedev will be highlighting some of the key messages of his visit to Belgrade in his address to MPs. Đukić-Dejanović, who is the president of the Serbo-Russian Friendship Group, said that Russian Ambassador to …
Read More »Election campaign under way in Kosovo
The campaign for the first Kosovo local elections since the province unilaterally declared independence in February last year will begin on November 15. 74 parties, coalitions and citizens’ movements are taking part in the ballot. They include 37 Kosovo Albanian and 21 Serb lists.
Read More »Inzko: Time for new steps
International High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko thinks it is time for further steps when it comes to the Dayton Accords. “Dayton is definitely the best Constitution that could have been written in an airport in the space of three weeks, because, above all, it put an end to the …
Read More »EC: Visa talks to begin with Kosovo
European Commission Director for the Western Balkans Pierre Mirel says that all EU member-states have agreed to begin visa liberalization dialogue with Kosovo. He submitted a progress report and feasibility study on Kosovo to senior officials in Priština yesterday.
Read More »Germany to return 14,000 Kosovo refugees
Germany has decided to return 14,000 refugees from Kosovo to their homeland, 10 years after the war, writes Suddeutsche Zeitung. There are currently over 14,000 refugees from Kosovo, who have had their applications for permanent residency turned down, awaiting deportation. All individuals without permanent residency status in Germany, and who …
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