Eurasia Press & News
The families of the victims of a deadly ammunition blast in the village of Gerdec, ten kilometers outside Tirana, filed a civil law suit for compensatory damages on Thursday against Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha. The victims’ families say Berisha has breached the constitution by not ensuring that laws and …
Read More »EULEX Chief Visits Belgrade
The head of Kosovo’s Rule of Law mission, EULEX, visited Belgrade on Friday in order to find a ”pragmatic solution” to many of the outstanding issues that have dogged his mission since its launch in December last year. It is the first time that Yves de Kermabon has visited the …
Read More »Macedonian Ministers, Top Officials to Guard Ballots
Macedonia’s opposition and some analysts have rebuffed a proposal put forward by the ruling VMRO DPMNE party to dispatch party officials to monitor Sunday’s election, saying its a way to exert pressure on public administration employees to vote in favour of the government’s candidates. They argue that this move will …
Read More »Serbian Radicals Protest ”Queer” Law
Radical party deputies – in protest at Serbia’s new anti discrimination bill – on Thursday brought to parliament and handed round posters with the photograph of Boban Stojanovic, a gay activist and journalist of the ”Borba” daily paper, pictured in his underwear. The words ”queer law” were scrawled over Stojanovic’s …
Read More »If Croatia Drops Genocide Suit, Serbia Will Too
As a solution for the border problem with Serbia, at Danube River, Serbian PM sees drawing it in the middle of the river. Before meeting with Croatian Prime Minster Ivo Sanader, Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said that Serbia will invite Croatia to drop its lawsuit against Serbia for genocide …
Read More »Homemade Bomb Explodes Outside Greek MP`s Office
Deputy Kyriakos Mitsotakis was not at his office at the time of the attack, the latest violence to rock the conservative government. Unidentified assailants exploded a homemade bomb at the office of a Greek ruling party deputy on Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, police said. Deputy Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 41, …
Read More »Slovenian PM Without Comment on Joint Statement
After a meeting with President Danilo Turk, Pahor declined to comment Rehn’s suggestion on a joint statement between Croatia and Slovenia. Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor on Wednesday refused to comment the possibility of Croatia and Slovenia signing a joint statement that would confirm that no document signed after the …
Read More »Opposition: Too Few IDs Endanger Albania Polls
Albania has never held an election deemed free and fair by international observers. Albania’s opposition urged the government on Wednesday to give identity cards to voters for free to avoid charges of fraud at the June 28 elections. Albania has never held an election deemed free and fair by international …
Read More »Romanian PM says agreement with IMF only preventive measure
BUCHAREST – Romania’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission is only meant as a preventive measure, Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Wednesday. “The agreement we are going to conclude with the European Commission and the IMF is meant only as a preventive measure, which …
Read More »Bulgaria Ex-Tsar Embraces Ethnic Turks as Allies
Bulgaria’s former tsar and prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg did not rule out joining forces with the ethnic Turks ahead of the general and European Parliament elections in the summer. The NMSP centrist party leader confirmed talks on forming a pre-election coalition with the Turkish DPS are underway just days after …
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