Balkans

Croatia will this weekend hold its first-ever election to the European Parliament, less than three months before the country is scheduled

Bulgarian Prime Minister Marin Raykov called on Wednesday for a fresh and in-depth review of the contract between Bulgaria and Russia for the construction of the pipeline South Stream.

The Greek Parliament ratified the Intergovernmental Agreement between Albania, Italy and Greece on the construction and operation of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project. The Intergovernmental Agreement between the three

Russia has agreed to grant Serbia a $500 million loan, Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday, April 10 with a first tranche of $300 million to be handed over immediately.

The Greek government appeared dissatisfied on Wednesday following the presentation of a new proposal regarding the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in New York on Tuesday.

Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister, Marin Raykov called for a new and more in-depth analysis of the Russian-sponsored South Stream gas pipeline project. Speaking Wednesday at the regularly-scheduled meeting of the caretaker government, Raykov asked his ministers to organize a round table on South Stream.

Dozens of reporters and activists rallied in front of the government, protesting over a police assault on a Top-Channel TV staffer.According to information received by Balkan Insight, police detained cameraman Gent Ballta on Sunday while he was filming confrontations between Tirana football club fans and police officers. While in detention …

President Bujar Nishani set Tuesday December 22 as the day when a historic referendum on trash imports will be held, the first such grassroots initiative in Albania.The referendum request had been spearheaded by a group of activists, environmentalists and intellectuals, who collected more than 64,000 signatures in order to annul …

Angry employees of the Oltchim chemical company rallied in Bucharest demanding payment of their overdue wages and urging the government to step in and save the plant.Around 1,000 workers at Romania’s ailing Oltchim plant staged a protest on Tuesday in front of the government building in Bucharest, demonstrating against unpaid …

The two-day Balkan Infrastructure and Construction Summit aims to inform foreign investors of business opportunities in the region.The first Balkans Infrastructure and Construction Summit will be held in Vienna on May 29 and 30. The organisers of the event, the International Research Networks, IRN, stated that the high-profile forum aims …