Balkan News

The informal meeting of foreign ministers of South-East European Cooperation Process will begin in Istanbul on Friday. The informal meeting of foreign ministers of South-East European Cooperation Process will begin in Istanbul on Friday. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu will host the two-day meeting. Foreign Ministers and deputy prime ministers …

Macedonian Parliamentary Delegation will participate in OSCE meetings set to be held from 9 to 11 October in Greece. Head of Delegation Parliamentarian Andrej Petrov (SDSM) will be accompanied by Vladimir Gjorcev (VMRO-DPMNE) and Hisen Dzemaili (DUI).

Laws in Macedonia are not democratic enough, Bulgaria’s Minister of Bulgarian residents abroad, Bozhidar Dimitrov, said to journalists, commenting on the Spaska Mitrova case.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister has made it clear he will not nominate former Tsar Simeon Saxe-Coburg for the race for the soon-to-be-created post of European Union President. Boyko Borisov, who once served as a bodyguard to the former Tsar and Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg, vehemently opposed the suggestion made earlier in the …

Leader of Greek socialist party PASOK, Georgios Papandreou, who is the new Prime Minister of the country after winning the October 4 general elections, is to arrive Friday in Istanbul to take part in the informal meeting of the foreign ministers in the South East European Co-operation Process (SEECP).

Emergency negotiations, convened by senior European Union and US officials and attended by the leaders of Bosnia’s three main ethnic groups, have started in an attempt to break the country’s political deadlock. The meeting started with a joint dinner on Thursday evening and continued on Friday morning. It is taking …

Greece’s newly elected prime minister George Papandreou and Macedonia’s foreign minister Antonio Milososki may convene Friday at the sidelines of a regional summit in Istanbul, Turkey, local media in both countries report. Both are present at the informal meeting of the Southeast European Cooperation Process, SEECP. A bilateral meeting would …

A one hundred-year-old mosque burned to the ground in the northern Bulgarian town of Nikopol, amid accusations of arson, media report. Eyewitnesses told media that firefighters rushed the scene, but were too late as the flames quickly enveloped the entire building. Imam Gyursel Mimishev, speaking to Bulgarian National Television, said …

A new European Commission, EC, document reportedly argues that the EU should unblock its Interim Trade Agreement with Serbia. Beta news agency reports that the EC is urging the unfreezing of the pact, arguing that the authorities in Serbia have proven their commitment to the country’s EU integration process and …

The chief editor of the controversial Macedonia encyclopedia, which caused outrage among ethnic Albanians, has been removed from the post. Blaze Ristovski was discharged from his duties at a Wednesday afternoon session of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, MANU, which released the tome. Ristovski had resisted pressure to …