July, 2009

• 6 July

  Serb Progressive Party Forms EU Integration Council

  The Opposition Serb Progressive Party, SNS, will open a Council for EU Integration, Tomislav Nikolic, leader of the party, announced on Thursday in Brussels. Nikolic met in the EU capital with European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and EC Director for Western Balkans Pierre Mirel to discuss ways in which the …

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• 5 July

  IAEA To Help Serbia Decommission Nuclear Reactor

  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will help Serbia ship tonnes of spent nuclear fuel to Russia and decommission its research reactor, IAEA’s outgoing chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Friday. The Vinca Nuclear Institute, 17 km (11 miles) southeast of Belgrade, will ship 2.5 tonnes of spent fuel rods and …

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• 5 July

  Bosnia Court Jails Ex-Serb Commander For 18 Years

  Bosnia’s war crimes court jailed a Bosnian Serb wartime army commander on Friday for 18 years for the killing, rape and torture of Muslims in eastern Bosnia early in the 1992-95 war. “Momir Savic was found guilty of persecution, murder, imprisonment, rape, torture and other inhuman acts against Bosnian Muslim …

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• 5 July

  Ukraine continues to sell military hardware to Georgia receiving 800 million dollars of profit

  Ukraine has received about $800 million of profit from the export of arms in 2008. Sergey Bondarchuk, the chairman of the state-run company Ukrspetsexport, said that the nation’s arms export in 2007 brought the profit of $700 million and nearly $800 million – in 2008. Ukraine has recently expanded the …

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• 5 July

  Albania opposition alleges foul play in vote count

  TIRANA, Albania’s opposition Socialists charged yesterday that the ruling Democrats were improperly trying to influence the country’s lengthy vote count by declaring victory before all ballots from last week’s national election were tallied. 

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• 5 July

  Governing Party in Albania Seeks to Assemble a Coalition

  TIRANA, Albania nearly a week after parliamentary elections, Albania’s governing Democratic Party began to assemble a coalition government on Saturday, even as the opposition Socialists decried the move as premature.

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• 5 July

  Albania’s socialists threaten street protests after election defeat

  TIRANA, Albania’s opposition Socialists are threatening to hold street protests after election authorities declared Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s Democrats had won enough seats in last weekend’s election to form a government.

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• 5 July

  Romania gets European loan for new metro line

  BUCHAREST Romania will get a 370-million-euro (517-million-dollar) loan from the European Investment Bank to build a new metro line in Bucharest, Transport Minister Radu Berceanu said Saturday.

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• 5 July

  Record Number of People Registered to Cast Vote in Bulgaria Kardzhali

  70 000 more Bulgarian citizens ,compared to the MEP elections, have been registered to cast vote in the South-East Kardzhali region. For the Parliament Elections which will be held Sunday, July 5, 220 229 have been registered, which is 70 000 people more than the MEP elections on June 7, …

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• 5 July

  US Ambassador McEldowney: Bulgaria People Expect Actions

  The US Ambassador in Bulgaria, Nancy McEldowney, said that both Bulgarians and friends of Bulgaria expects specific actions to be taken by the next government. The Ambassador expressed said Saturday in an interview for Darik Radio that the new government must set clear goals and announce them in public. The …

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