Eurasia Press & News
Two French ministers are meeting the Romanian government to discuss ways to improve the living conditions of the Roma people in Romania.The French Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, and France’s Europe minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, are due to hold talks with the Romanian President, Romanian Prime Minister and other officials in the …
Read More »EU Urges Bosnia to Continue Work on ‘Road Map’
The EU’s Director General for Enlargement, Stefano Sannino, said that failure to deal with the Sejdic-Finci ruling by an August 31 deadline did not mean that Bosnia should abandon work on the rest of the EU “Road Map”.The director general of enlargement at the European Commission, Stefano Sannino, issued a …
Read More »EU Investigators to Examine Kosovo Organ Testimony
At their next meeting with Serbian prosecutors EU investigators will consider whether to examine an unnamed witness who claims he removed a Serbian prisoner’s heart – which was then handed to a client at Tirana airport.A member of the EU special investigation team for the Kosovo organ trafficking case said …
Read More »Video Barred from Albanian Ex-Minister’s Trial
The Supreme Court on Monday disqualified as evidence a key video, which appeared to show former economy minister Dritan Prifti sharing a hefty bribe with his former deputy.Fatmir Braka, Prifit’s lawyer, said the judges had ruled the video inadmissible as proof on the defence’s request. “Because the video is inadmissible, …
Read More »Assault on Montenegrin Gay Activists Condemned
Civil society activists and officials have condemned the beating up of three men – two of whom took part in making a video promoting gay rights in Montenegro.Danilo Marunovic, director of the video, Todor Vujosevic, an actor in it, and their friend, Mirko Boskovic, a journalist at Montenegro’s public broadcaster, …
Read More »Serbia Pledges to Cut Budget Deficit
Belgrade has acted to restore IMF confidence by adopting a draft budget review and a package of anti-crisis measures.Serbia’s Socialist-led government has adopted a 2012 draft budget review and 12 laws regulating public finance, designed to avert financial collapse. The measures aim to reduce Serbia’s consolidated budget deficit from 7.1 …
Read More »Wife Tried to Dissuade US Embassy Gunman
The US embassy attacker, Mevlid Jasarevic, was removed from court for showing disrespect while his wife’s statement was read out; in it, she recalled her attempts to disssuade him from going to Sarajevo.The statement of Mirela Demirovic, Jasarevic’s unmarried wife, previously given to investigators, was read out at the trial …
Read More »New Macedonian TV Station Revives Dissident Spirit
A new TV station, A3, will try to revive the spirit of the once prominent national station, A1 TV, which was shut down last year by the authorities.The new station’s editor-in-chief, Aco Kabranov, said he intended to bring back the old A1 team of journalists. “We will bring back 80 …
Read More »France, EU, Seek Action on Roma from Romania
A French minister is flying to Romania to try and get Bucharest to address the problem of Romanian Roma now living illegally in France.The French Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, and the Minister for European Affairs, Bernard Cazeneuve, are to come to Romania on Wednesday to discuss the sensitive situation of …
Read More »Era of Supervised Independence Ends in Kosovo
As the period of international supervision of Kosovo’s independence draws to a close, Prime Minister Thaci hails a milestone in the country’s history and promises a new deal for disaffected Serbs in the north.After 13 years of international oversight, Kosovo formally obtained full independence on Monday when Western Powers terminated …
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