Eurasia

Croatia’s Finance Ministry on Tuesday published a list of over 102,000 companies and individuals who have failed to pay the state millions of euros in taxes.The list of companies that owe the state is headed by the Zagreb-based Tempo construction company, with a tax debt of HRK 292 million [€39 …

As the tiny Adriatic country faces tough EU accession talks, its president has called early parliamentary elections.Filip Vujanovic, Montenegro’s president, has called early parliamentary election for October 14, some six months ahead of schedule.

The Macedonian Lustration Commission named 11 people as collaborators with the former police and state security agencies on Monday, under the newly adopted Lustration Law.The eleven alleged police informants are the same people who had been lustrated under the old law that was scrapped by the Constitutional Court, which ruled …

The family of Nehat Haliti says that his arrest is meant to scare the Kosovo Albanians, and that he has no connection with the alleged war crimes he is charged with.The family of Nehat Haliti, who was arrested over the weekend in Serbia on war crimes charges, denies that he …

Two earthquakes which hit Zenica on Monday with a magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale has frightened thousands of people living in Central Bosnia.An earthquake shook the town of Zenica on July 30, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, and was followed by a weaker one. The epicentre was seven …

Kosovo police says that the traffic at the Merdare border crossing has returned to normal, after being paralysed over the weekend, with kilometres-long queues.Hundreds of people were stranded on both sides of the border for hours, due to what Kosovo Police described as failure of the Serbian police to properly …

Belgrade has condemned the statement from former UN envoy who said that Serbia should be denied EU membership until it recognizes Kosovo.The newly appointed Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic warned on Sunday that the statement by the former UN envoy to the Kosovo status process, Martti Ahtisaari, that Serbia should …

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was to confer with his coalition allies on Monday on spending cuts needed to unlock a 31.5-billion-euro loan instalment from the country’s EU-IMF rescue package. Samaras was to see his two partners — socialist Evangelos Venizelos and moderate leftist Fotis Kouvelis — at 1500 GMT, …

The owner of a restaurant in a Montenegrin village has thrown out a woman and her five small children for being Serbs.Veselinka Rajkovic, a resident of Podgorica, was visiting the monastery of Prevlaka accompanied by a Serbian Orthodox nun – the children’s religous teacher. Rajkovic told Vijesti, a Podgorica based …

A group of citizens is demanding the scrapping of the 1995 Dayton settlement, the return of the old Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the abolition of the two entities.The “Anti-Dayton Group” organized a gathering in Sarajevo for citizens to sign a petition demanding that the two entities, the Federation …