Eurasia Press & News
TURKEY Relations between hostile neighbours Turkey and Armenia have taken a turn for the better with the two countries’ agreeing to hold talks on establishing diplomatic ties. It was last year’s unprecedented meeting between their leaders in the Armenian capital which began the slow improvement after almost a century of …
Read More »Macedonia Fears Second Greek Veto
MACEDONIA Greece has toughened its stance in the dispute over Macedonia’s official name, making it more likely to block its neighbour’s EU membership bid, Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki said. Milososki’s comments came in an interview with Reuters on Monday, held on the sidelines of a regional security conference in …
Read More »Macedonia Probes Secret Service Ties
MACEDONIA Lustration procedures, focusing on past security service ties, begin for all public officials in Macedonia on Tuesday, with prominent public office holders the first under the spotlight. Public office holders have until the end of September to submit a statement to the parliamentary Commission for the Verification of Facts, …
Read More »Guilty Plea in Albanian Munitions Trafficking Case
ALBANIA The CEO of Miami-based company AEY, who is suspected of conducting a shady munitions deal with Albanian authorities to ship Chinese-made ammunition to the Afghan army, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy in Florida. The dealer, 24-year-old Efraim E. Diveroli, who is often described as a weapons “genius”, admitted that …
Read More »Envoy Urges States to Back Bosnia’s EU, NATO Bid
BiH Bosnia’s top western envoy has urged Croatia, Slovenia and Turkey to provide further support to Bosnia’s bid for full NATO and EU membership. On Monday, Bosnia’s High Representative Valentin Inzko met Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, oin the …
Read More »Pocherul geopolitic – Voronin sau R. Moldova?
„La baza [tratativelor] va sta principiul devotamentului faţă de patrie” (Mark Tkaciuk, deputat PCRM) Nero a fost acuzat de poporul său că ar fi dat foc Romei. A rămas, din această pricină, prototipul conducătorului politic care, pentru a-şi satisface dorinţele personale delirante, este în stare să sacrifice totul, inclusiv sursa …
Read More »Odriču se 165 miliona KM godišnje
BiH Vlada Federacije BiH, odnosno njena resorna ministarstva, u protekloj godini nisu naplatili više od 165 miliona KM koncesionih naknada, potvrđeno je u Komisiji za koncesije FBiH. Predsjednik Komisije Šefik Koričić tvrdi da se situacija u ovoj godini nije promijenila u odnosu na prošlu. Kaže da ne zna zašto nadležna …
Read More »SDA traži alternativu u hrvatskom narodu
BiH Hrvatska stranka prava (HSP) Đapić-dr Jurišić mogla bi, umjesto HDZ BiH i HDZ 1990, postati novi partner SDA u formiranju vlasti u Federaciji BiH. Ova najava uslijedila je nakon što su u četvrtak ministri iz dva HDZ-a napustili sjednicu Vlade FBiH nezadovoljni promjenom trase koridora 5c na području Hercegovine. …
Read More »Nisu usvojili ni trećinu planiranih zakona
BiH Vijeće ministara BiH u prvih šest mjeseci ove godine usvojilo je manje od deset odsto planiranih zakona dok je državni parlament uspio realizirati tek 23 odsto svog plana. Podaci su ovo o radu Vijeća ministara i parlamenta BiH koje su juče predstavili Centri civilnih inicijativa (CCI), nevladina organizacija koja …
Read More »Bulgaria to announce next move on Belene in September 2009 – Energy Minister
BULGARIA Bulgaria’s Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov has rejected as untrue media reports that talks were to be held with Arab investors interested in the country’s Belene nuclear power station project. On August 30 2009, quoting a report by a Kuwaiti news agency that interviewed Traikov, Bulgarian newspaper Standart …
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