March, 2009

• 13 March

  EU monitors may be forced to stay in Georgia: chief

  BRUSSELS, – European Union ceasefire monitors may soon be the only observer mission in Georgia yet still have no access to breakaway regions and face continued hostility, the mission’s head warned on Thursday. The official, Hansjoerg Haber, said observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were …

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• 13 March

  Georgian Ambassador to Armenia takes his leave of RA NA chairman

  Armenian National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan met Thursday with Georgian Ambassador Revaz Gachechiladze, who is completing his mission in the republic. The Armenian Speaker thanked Ambassador Gachechiladze for his contribution to the development of the Armenian-Georgian cooperation. The two discussed possibilities to strengthen interparliamentary ties and other issues of mutual …

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• 13 March

  Rape inquiry sheds light on racism in Italy

  ROME  – When police arrested two Romanians for the rape of an Italian teenager in Rome, Il Giornale, a paper owned by the family of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reported: “The Romanian beasts have been caught.” Three weeks later, prosecutors admitted the “beasts” could not be guilty — DNA tests …

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• 13 March

  Romania not ruling out recession

  Bucharest. Romania could slip into recession this year, when the economy could show a contraction of 1.0 percent to growth of 1.5 percent, Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea said on Thursday. Romania is currently in talks with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union over a possible financial bailout.

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• 13 March

  Romania Opens Emergency Refugee Centre

  Officials from the UN’s High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, and Romania on Thursday officially opened an emergency transit refugee centre in Timisoara, western Romania, to house refugees facing acute danger and in need of immediate evacuation. The centre, the first of its kind in the world, has been set up …

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• 13 March

  Bulgaria Cabinet Gives Green Light to Sofia’s Waste Treatment Plant

  Bulgaria’s Ministries Council granted authorization Thursday to design and build a waste treatment facility in the “Sadinata” site, near the village of Yana, in Sofia’s “Kremikovtzi” district. The “Integrated System of Facilities for Treatment of Household Waste from Sofia’s Municipality” will be built on nearly 333,000 square meters of lands …

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• 13 March

  Bulgaria Parliament Speaker Arrives in Turkey amidst Genocide Scandal

  Bulgaria’s Parliament Speaker Georgi Pirinski is visiting Ankara Thursday amidst a growing scandal regarding some Bulgarian cities recognizing the 1915 Armenian Genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire. Three Turkish cities have broken their twin cities agreements with Bulgarian ones and nine more are about to do so due to …

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• 13 March

  Bulgaria Foreign Minister Stresses Need for Energy Security

  Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivaylo Kalfin, has underlined the need for more energy security in the Baltic region and across Europe during a meeting late Wednesday with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza. Their meeting was attended by the US Department of …

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• 13 March

  Bulgaria Government Searches for Bulgarian Gorans

  Before the incoming census in both Kosovo and Albania, the Bulgarian Government has mobilized and is on a quest to find Bulgarians among the Gorans (Macedonian muslims) in Kosovo. For this purpose offices have been opened in both Kosovo and Albania where Bulgarian citizenship is offered to anyone who walks …

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• 13 March

  EU Parliament Urges Accession Talks For Macedonia

  The European Parliament in Strasbourg, Thursday expressed its support for Macedonia’s EU candidacy and urged the EU to grant the country a date for the start of accession talks by the year end, local media report. In the progress report for the country that was adopted, MPs expressed regrets that …

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