Balkans

Bosnia will use funds gained from its portion of the property of the Former Yugoslavia – amounting to some 90 million Euros – to fill depleted budgets and mount a fight against the worsening economic and social crisis. Economic experts over the weekend welcomed the decision of Bosnia’s state Fiscal …

Many will be surprised how successful our intelligence services were in Serbian-Croatian spying war, a Serbian spy said. The priority of Serbian intelligence services is currently Kosovo, as well as collecting documents for a counter lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against Croatia.

Vidin. The meeting between Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso should be held because there is a discussion at the European Parliament on the economy restoration plan of the European Union, MEP from the Party of European Socialists (PES) Marusiya Lyubcheva said.

Bulgaria’s Energy and Economy Minister, Petar Dimitrov, assured Bulgarians Saturday that the country was fully prepared for an eventual gas crisis and would not end up in the January dire situation. Dimitrov, who spoke in a special interview for Darik radio, confirmed a new gas crisis was not to be …

At least eight police officers and several people have been hurt in clashes between Kosovo Police and ethnic Serbs in eastern Kosovo during a protest against electricity cuts. Regional spokesman for the Kosovo Police Ismet Hashani told Balkan Insight that police confronted some 350 protesters in the central Kosovo Serb …

Serbia’s government will in the next few days attempt to reach a consensus among different opinions on the controversial anti-discrimination law whose adoption is a requirement for the country to get onto the European Union’s so-called “Schengen white list”. The B92 website reports that if a consensus is not reached …

The Sofia Appellate Court postponed Friday the case against former Interior Minister Rumen Petkov for Aril 10. Petkov is charged with leaking a State secret. The magistrates requested that the State Agency for National Security (DANS) provided more evidence in order to clarify the case. They declared that the Court …

The Bulgarian medics and the Palestinian doctor, who were jailed in Libya for over eight years, insist on more active efforts on the part of Bulgarian institutions to help them clear their names. The medics organized Friday a conference in the capital Sofia under the motto “Human Rights – the …

Croatia and Hungary are likely to build a gas transit pipeline with an annual capacity of 6.5 billion cubic metres, stated Croatian gas transmission company Plinacro, according to media reports. The project’s cost is seen at EUR 395 million, while the pipeline is expected to completed by the end of …

GENEVA, March 6 – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday voiced their different positions over Kosovo. Speaking to a press conference after their first meeting in the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, Clinton said she congratulated Kosovo leader over the “first year” of …