March, 2009

• 10 March

  Czech PM Visits Macedonia

  Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, the current holder of the EU presidency, is due to arrive in Skopje this Tuesday for an official visit to Macedonia, where he will meet his counterpart Nikola Gruevski and President Branko Crvenkovski. The visit comes just weeks before the March 22 presidential and local …

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• 10 March

  Palau is 56th State to Recognise Kosovo

  The small Pacific state of the Republic of Palau became the 56th country to recognise Kosovo as an independent state on Monday. The President of Palau Johanson Toribiong sent a letter to the newly independent Balkan state’s President, Fatmir Sejdiu, confirming the recognition of Kosovo. 

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• 10 March

  Kosovo PM Invites Serbian President

  Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has invited Serbia’s President Boris Tadic to meet in Pristina to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two states. “You know that Belgrade wants handcuffs and keys for me every day,” he told media in the Serb-populated town of Cagllavica on Sunday, saying instead that he …

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• 10 March

  War Crimes Case Endangers Bosnia-Serbia Ties

  Bosnia’s Minister of Security, Tarik Sadovic, has warned the Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, that “good neighborly relations” between the two countries could “be jeopardized” if Serbia insists on prosecuting 19 Bosnian officials charged for war crimes against the Yugoslav Army in 1992. “I have asked that Dacic, in his …

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• 10 March

  Politician’s Son Suspect in Bulgaria Murder

  The son of a right-wing politician has been arrested on suspicions of killing a 21 year old woman in the Black Sea town of Varna. Georgi Tsvetanov is the only suspect for the murder of Radostina Evtimova, whose mutilated body was found with numerous stab wounds at a flat in …

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• 10 March

  Pantomime Festival Brings Artists to Macedonia

  The second edition of the Macedonian pantomime and physical theatre festival Panphys opens today, bringing important artists from the region and the world to the capital Skopje. The festival, which will take place at the Macedonian National Theatre until March 14, opens tonight with Monologue with a Suitcase – a …

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• 10 March

  Kosovo to Feel Global Recession

  Economists in Kosovo say that there has not been adequate analysis on the impact of the global economic slowdown on the country, asking government and other relevant actors to undertake necessary measures to prepare for the crisis which will inevitably hit the newly independent state, they say. 

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• 10 March

  Romanian President Warns of Austerity

  Romania’s President Traian Basescu addressing parliament on Monday asked “for solidarity and austerity” as he sought to prepare the public for possible International Monetary Fund, IMF, aid in a bid to shore up his country’s faltering economy. “The country will have to pay now for the lack of structural reforms …

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• 9 March

  Protesters,Police Scuffle Outside Georgia Assembly

  Protest organisers said three or four people were lightly injured when police moved in to push back demonstrators. Dozens of anti-government protesters in Georgia briefly scuffled with police outside parliament in the capital Tbilisi on Monday and one person was detained. Protest organisers said three or four people were lightly …

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• 9 March

  Party Seeks Resignation From Slovenian President

  Representatives of the party `New Slovenia´ consider that Tuerk should condemn the crimes in Huda Jama, and SLS seeks his resignation. The Slovenian president Danilo Tuerk said on Sunday that he recognises the political manipulation in the calls that he visit the grave in the pit in Huda Jama, Slovenia. …

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