Balkans

Albania President Green-Lights Waste Referendum

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 …

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Workers Protest in Romania Over Unpaid Wages

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 …

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Vienna to Host Balkan Infrastructure Summit

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 …

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Montenegro President re-elected for third time

Montenegro’s President Filip Vujanovic has won a third term in office, the electoral commission has said, despite opposition claims that their candidate was the winner. Vujanovic won 51.21 percent of the votes compared with Miodrag Lekic’s 48.79 percent, commission chairman Ivan Kalezic told reporters on Monday.

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Turkish FM says new Cypriot president should have met with his Turkish Cypriot counterpart

Newly elected Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades should have met with his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, Derviş Eroğlu, after winning recent elections, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said April 7 criticizing the new leader’s actions in office so far.

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