Eurasia Press & News
Leaders of the three main political parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina are due to discuss the increasingly fraught political situation in the country next week. Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) leader Dragan Čović proposed the meeting with his counterparts in the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), …
Read More »US official says no missile shield planned in Balkans
The United States will not move any missile defenses to the Balkans, a top U.S. official said Thursday. The statement comes after President Barack Obama dropped plans by predecessor George W. Bush for ground-based interceptor missiles in Poland and a related radar site in the Czech Republic to provide European …
Read More »EU remains magnet for Balkan countries
Membership in the European Union remains a dream of all countries that emerged from the ashes of the former Yugoslav Federation, with some of them still far away from achieving of this goal. Nonetheless, the paper adds, the prospects are not all that bleak. Macedonia might get a date for …
Read More »If there are facts on violations during vote in Turkey elections should be annulled: Ataka leader
If there are enough facts on violations during vote at Bulgarian parliamentary elections in Turkey they should be annulled, leader Ataka political party Volen Siderov said. He added annulling elections is Turkey is a matter of finding violations, which would be accepted by the court and the Central Electoral Commission. …
Read More »Nova Makedonija: Albanians to be put in another encyclopedia
The name Albanians and the time when they arrived in Macedonia are issues that are interpreted in different ways in other encyclopedias published in the country earlier and in Former Yugoslavia, Macedonian Nova Makedonija newspaper writes. Some back the thesis that the Albanians arrived in Macedonia in the XVI century, …
Read More »Russia, Bulgaria to continue co-operation on Belene NPP project
Russia and Bulgaria will continue co-operation on the construction of Belene NPP, the first vice-president of Atomstroyeksport Alexander Gluhov said. “We will not stop the project but will continue it after we correct the financial scheme.” Gluhov pointed negotiations in Bulgaria with the Russian energy minister Sergey Shmatko and head …
Read More »Russia Requests Belgrade Street Names Changes
Russia’s Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin has asked Belgrade to switch back street names to those of Russian soldiers that took part in the liberation of Belgrade during World War II, local media report. The daily newspaper Blic speculates that the proposal comes ahead of a visit by Russian President …
Read More »Bosnian Town Files Charges Against Dodik
The Bosnian town of Tuzla has filed criminal charges against the prime minister of the Serb-dominated Bosnian entity of Republika Srpska for denying that massacres of civilians in Tuzla and Sarajevo took place during the 1992-95 war. Milorad Dodik has said that a Serb mortar attack in 1995 that killed …
Read More »Creativity Urged From Greece, Macedonia
Enough ideas are on the table for Macedonia and Greece to start thinking creatively and find a solution for their “name” spat, the UN mediator Matthew Nimetz said Thursday in New York after meeting Macedonian President Georgi Ivanov. “I intend to resume the talks as soon as the new government …
Read More »Croatian President at Odds With Church
Croatia’s President Stepjan Mesic welcomed the visit by Croatia’s top prelate Cardinal Josip Bozanic to the notorious World War II concentration camps this week, but commented that the visit should have come ‘much earlier’. Bozanic, accompanied by some 400 priests, set out on a historic pilgrimage to visit the sites …
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