Balkans

Bulgaria said on Wednesday (July 18th) it is sending an official request to Tripoli for the transfer of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV.

Speaking to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on Tuesday (July 17th), Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said expedited EU accession is his country’s top priority. Jeremic said he believed entry into the bloc is the ultimate goal for all countries in the region, spurring co-operation.

Dick Marty, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur who recently wrote a report on alleged illegal CIA detentions in Romania and Poland, came under fire by members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Tuesday (July 17th).

The province’s negotiating team, the Unity Group, decided on Tuesday (July 17th) that parliament will hold a debate on July 30th concerning the delay in resolving Kosovo’s status.

The United States and its EU allies formally introduced a draft resolution on Kosovo late Tuesday (July 17th) despite Russia’s opposition to the text. It calls for 120 days of new talks between Belgrade and Pristina, after which the UN Security Council would review the situation.

Libya said on Wednesday the ball is in Europe’s court over the fate of six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence for infecting children with the AIDS virus but who are still anxiously waiting to return home after eight years behind bars.

Libya’s highest judicial body commuted to life in prison on Tuesday the sentences of six foreign medics who have been on death row for infecting children with the AIDS virus, an official said.

Due to free market economy and low taxation, Montenegro received 505m euros in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) last year. According experts, FDI is expected to increase to 850m euros this year — and continue to rise progressively.

In a rapidly changing economic environment in Southeast Europe, many university graduates are unemployed. At a World Bank conference –“Young People in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: From Policy to Action”– held in Rome in May, many said that the unemployment trend could slow economic growth and lead to increased …

The Unites States and EU nations distributed their new draft resolution on Kosovo Friday (July 13th) among members of the UN Security Council. British UN Ambassador Karen Pierce says it will be debated on Monday.