Eurasia Press & News
ZAGREB, Croatia Justice Minister Ivan Simonovic asked foreign donors Tuesday (April 28th) to help the country finance projects aimed at reforming the judiciary, a key precondition for eventual EU accession. Presenting projects worth about 42m euros through 2012, Simonovic asked the donors to help reduce the number of local courts …
Read More »President Medvedev: Bulgaria Relations Back on Track
Bulgarian PM Sergey Stanishev’s delayed meeting with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev took place late Tuesday in the Barbihka residence near Moscow. The half-hour meeting took place after the two delegations from Russia and Bulgaria had finished day long talks in Moscow. Medvedev informed Stanishev that he was aware of the …
Read More »Bulgaria President: Belene Nuclear Plant Can’t Be Frozen over Crisis
Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov said Wednesday the Belene Nuclear Power Plant could be build with loans from Russia, if necessary. “It is not very easy to find credits for such a large-scale project as our second nuclear power plant in times of global financial crisis. We should not exclude the …
Read More »Balkan States Tally Obama’s First 100 Days
The new US administration’s first one hundred day anniversary – coinciding with still unconfirmed news that Vice-President Joe Biden will visit the Balkans in May – has been greeted with mixed feelings and still great expectations among the countries in the region. “Biden’s visit will above all be a good …
Read More »Macedonian President: Name Must be Solved
Outgoing Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski has warned that while a solution to his country’s long standing spat over its name with Greece may not be popular, a deal is essential and will bring long term positive results. Drawing a parallel with the Ohrid agreement of 2001 which ended the armed …
Read More »Albania Denies It Gave Territory to Greece
Albania’s government flatly rejected reports by local media on Wednesday that during a recent meeting between Prime Minister Sali Berisha and his Greek counterpart Costas Karamanlis Albania ceded part of its territorial waters to Athens. The two leaders signed an agreement on Monday, which has not yet been made public. …
Read More »Kosovo Can Join Visa Liberalisation
Kosovo will be included in European visa liberalisation if it meets the necessary conditions, the vice-president of the European Commission said on Tuesday. Jacques Barrot said Kosovo would be treated like other Balkan countries, during a press conference which closed a two-day conference called Building Migration Partnerships. “Kosovo, like the …
Read More »Macedonia: Pressure Against Court Must Stop
Government pressure against the country’s Constitutional Court must stop as it jeopardizes Macedonia’s progress towards the EU, political commentators cited in local media warn. They say that by attacking the latest court’s ruling to uphold a ban on religious teaching in high schools, the government led by the right from …
Read More »Frattini: Holland to Soften Serbian Stance
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini says that Holland is showing signs of softening its position on Serbian cooperation with the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In an interview with the Belgrade daily Novosti, Frattini said that the fact that Holland has accepted a proposal by the Tribunal’s Chief Prosecutor …
Read More »Bulgaria Parliamentary Elections on July 5
President Georgi Parvanov will issue a decree scheduling parliamentary elections for Bulgaria for July 5, his office said on Tuesday after Purvanov held consultations with all political parties represented in the current parliament. All but one of the parties in parliament agree on the date. The right-wing party in opposition, …
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