Eurasia Press & News
After reaching record approval numbers late last year, Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is seeing his popularity fall drastically in the last one and a half month, shows a survey by the International Republican Institute. The survey shows he went from a 61 percent approval rating in December to 51 …
Read More »Kosovo To Start Building New Power Plant In 09
Kosovo will start within the year the construction of the “New Kosovo” power plant that will provide 24-hour power to Kosovo’s population and alleviate frequent power cuts, Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Thursday. “New Kosovo” is Thaci’s label for the “Kosovo C” project, a coal-based power plant with …
Read More »Heavy Snow Paralyzes Parts Of Balkans
Heavy snow storms and icy winds across the Balkans over the last two days caused traffic jams and left thousands in mountainous areas cut off, but also delighted coastal cities that have not seen such snow in many years. At least five municipalities in northern Albania are cut off due …
Read More »Kosovo Pilot Starts Fly-In Recognition Drive
A Kosovo-born pilot will next month start a fly-in campaign across the Americas to persuade governments to recognise Kosovo, which this week celebrated one year since its declaration of independence from Serbia Texas resident James Berisha, 37, will begin his Flying For Kosovo (www.flyingforkosovo.com ) campaign in March and has …
Read More »Kosovo Telecom Still Uses Serbia Prefix, Free
Kosovo is still using Serbia’s +381 international dialling code for its land lines, despite having no formal agreement or any talks on the issue since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia last year. The head of the parliamentary economic commission, Energy and Transport Minister Myzejene Selmani, said Kosovo should cut this …
Read More »Serbia State To Intervene To Help Economy
A Serbian government package of economic measures to help local companies make it through the global financial crisis will not solve all the economy’s problems for good, but take the edge off the most acute issues, experts say. More than half of the 1.2 billion euro package, which comes into …
Read More »More Charges In Albania Deadly Blast Case
Fourteen high officials of the Ministry of Defence were charged on Wednesday with abuse of power and falsifying documents over the deadly blast at army depot outside Tirana last March. Ex-Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu and several former high officials from the ministry were charged last week with abuse of power, …
Read More »Bosnian Imam claims child molestation innocence
The convicted Bosnian Muslim Imam that was sentenced to 18 months in jail for sexually molesting an underage girl told the gathering audience in the Bosnian village where he served and committed the crime that he is innocent and his claims were supported by a chorus of little Muslim girls …
Read More »Turkish, Croatian PMs meet to boost ties
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his visiting Croatian counterpart Ivo Sanader to discuss ways to promote bilateral ties as well as international and regional issues of mutual interest. Erdogan said Croatia is a country to which Turkey attaches great importance for peace, stability and welfare in the …
Read More »Slovene president wraps up visit to Macedonia
Skopje, 18 February – President Danilo Tuerk wrapped up on Wednesday his two-day official visit to Macedonia, where he met the country’s highest officials and took part in a business forum dedicated to economic cooperation between the countries. Later in the day the president departed for an official visit to …
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