April, 2013

• 10 April

  Albanian Journalists Protest Over Colleague’s Assault

  Dozens of reporters and activists rallied in front of the government, protesting over a police assault on a Top-Channel TV staffer.According to information received by Balkan Insight, police detained cameraman Gent Ballta on Sunday while he was filming confrontations between Tirana football club fans and police officers. While in detention …

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• 10 April

  Albania President Green-Lights Waste Referendum

  President Bujar Nishani set Tuesday December 22 as the day when a historic referendum on trash imports will be held, the first such grassroots initiative in Albania.The referendum request had been spearheaded by a group of activists, environmentalists and intellectuals, who collected more than 64,000 signatures in order to annul …

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• 10 April

  Workers Protest in Romania Over Unpaid Wages

  Angry employees of the Oltchim chemical company rallied in Bucharest demanding payment of their overdue wages and urging the government to step in and save the plant.Around 1,000 workers at Romania’s ailing Oltchim plant staged a protest on Tuesday in front of the government building in Bucharest, demonstrating against unpaid …

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• 10 April

  Vienna to Host Balkan Infrastructure Summit

  The two-day Balkan Infrastructure and Construction Summit aims to inform foreign investors of business opportunities in the region.The first Balkans Infrastructure and Construction Summit will be held in Vienna on May 29 and 30. The organisers of the event, the International Research Networks, IRN, stated that the high-profile forum aims …

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• 9 April

  Kosovo Parliament Speaker says Serbia’s rejection of EU offer on Kosovo is not tragic

  Kosovar Parliament Speaker Yakup Krasnici on Monday said that Serbia’s rejection of an European Union (EU) offer on Kosovo was “not tragic”. In a statement made on Monday, Krasnici underlined that Kosovo and

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• 9 April

  France starts to withdraw troops from Mali

  France has started to withdraw its troops from Mali, with the first group of 100 soldiers already leaving the West African country to Cyprus, local media reported Tuesday.

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• 9 April

  Bulgaria could build 2 bridges over Danube

  “Road infrastructure in North Bulgaria will be a total priority in the next programme period,” Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev said at the opening of the 8th Annual National Conference ‘Strategic Infrastructure Bulgaria 2013’.

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• 9 April

  Romanian Economy Minister meets Armenian PM

  Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met Romanian Economy Minister Varujan Vosganian to discuss improvement of bilateral ties.

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• 9 April

  Montenegro President re-elected for third time

  Montenegro’s President Filip Vujanovic has won a third term in office, the electoral commission has said, despite opposition claims that their candidate was the winner. Vujanovic won 51.21 percent of the votes compared with Miodrag Lekic’s 48.79 percent, commission chairman Ivan Kalezic told reporters on Monday.

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• 9 April

  UN special envoy says Mali elections in July will be difficult

  Holding elections in Mali in July “is going to be difficult but desirable”, given the large number of displaced people and the adverse climate conditions, UN special envoy for the Sahel Romano Prodi told the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

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