Moldova has decided to withdraw the licence of a pro-communist TV station for biased reporting, it was announced on Friday. The station has often criticised the ruling coalition, which is pro-Western and came to power in 2009 after winning the elections against the Communists. NIT said it wants to appeal …

Japan’s PM Yoshikiko Noda told Bulgarian Parliamentary Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva that his country wishes to improve business activity in Bulgaria if the business climate gets better. Tsetska Tsacheva stressed that Bulgaria will make efforts to improve bilateral relations in fields such as business and tourism. Noda said further that a …

Macedonia’s ruling coalition submitted a draft of the new Lustration law on Tuesday to the parliament which aims to dismiss ex-police informants from public offices. This comes after the Constitutional Court scrapped in late March the twelve controversial provisions of the existing law, which narrowed its scope.