Bulgaria is already technically prepared to re-boot unit 4 of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant according to Peter Dimitrov, Bulgaria’s Minister of Economy and Energy, the Bulgarian daily Standart newspaper reported late Friday. Dimitrov stated; “We are technically prepared to switch Kozloduy’s unit 4 back on. We are ready to …

Bulgaria’s Minister of Environment and Waters (MOEW), Dzhevdet Chakurov, has confirmed Bulgarian support for the Hungarian government’s decision to put a temporary ban on the production, distribution, import and sale of genetically modified corn in the country, Bulgarian information agencies reported Saturday. Minister Chakurov stated Bulgaria’s support to the Hungarian …

The battle for inclusion on the EU election lists of Romania’s main political parties has reached new heights as a 28 February registration deadline approaches. The prospect of salaries five times higher than those of current Romanian MEPs appears to be an irresistible incentive. A “war of candidates” is raging …

LAGOS, – Marian Parjol, Romanian ambassador to Nigeria, has pledged his country’s readiness to assist Nigeria in the area of military training, reported the News Agency of Nigeria. Parjol made the pledge on Thursday in Abuja when he visited Nigeria’s Minister of Defense Shetimah Mustapha in his office. The envoy …

Romania’s Defence Ministry said a soldier serving in the country’s peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan was killed when his vehicle drove over an explosive device. The ministry said the soldiers were on patrol on Thursday on the highway between Kabul and Qalat, a town near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. The dead …

Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic, acquited of war crimes relating to the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict, will return to Belgrade on Friday after more than four years spent in detention in The Hague. On Thursday the United Nations war crimes court found five senior Serb officials guilty of orchestrating the murder, …

Bernard Rabatel, the deputy head of justice of EULEX, the newly deployed EU rule of law mission in Kosovo, says his mission will move fast in going through Kosovo’s war crimes cases because ‘justice delayed is justice denied’. The UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, has handed over to EULEX all …

Italy will be donating 2 million euros to the newly formed Kosovo Security Force, a NATO sponsored army established as part of Kosovo’s status arrangements for its declaration of independence of last year. Kosovo’s deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuci announced the grant after meeting with Italy’s ambassador to Kosovo, Michael …

United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has reconfirmed Washington’s support for Kosovo during a visit of Kosovo’s senior leaders to the US.. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 17, 2008 and has since been recognized by 55 states, including the majority of EU members. “We support the new …

Serbia, and especially its northern province of Vojvodina, has the highest rate of suicides in Europe, with 19 out of 100,000 people opting to kill themselves compared to a European average of 13 per 100,000. In Vojvodina the rate is the highest – 28.5 per 100,000. Between 1,300 and 1,400 …