February, 2009

• 28 February

  Albania High Court Reviews Kosovo Highway

  Albania’s Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha appeared in front of the Supreme Court in Tirana on Friday on charges of abuse of power related to a mammoth highway project linking Albania’s Adriatic coast with Kosovo. The charges relate to the time when Basha served as Albania’s Minister of Transportation and Public …

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• 28 February

  World Bank Probe “Damaged” Albania Relations

  Albania’s Minister of Finance accused the World Bank on Friday of damaging their excellent relations with a probe by an independent investigative panel on a coastal management project that has embarrassed the conservative government of Prime Minister Sali Berisha. “We regret to note that Bank’s internal issues are being transposed …

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• 28 February

  Rights Group Slams Harrassment Of Kosovo NGO

  International human rights group Front Line accused Kosovo’s public telecoms company of harrassing civil society group COHU!, and called for a prompt investigation into the matter. The managing director of Kosovo’s Post and Telecommunications Kosovo, PTK, Shyqyri Haxhaj, accused the wife of COHU! director Avni Zogjani, a PTK employee, of …

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• 28 February

  World Bank Sees Crisis Spreading To Bosnia

  Macroeconomic indicators over the past three months confirm that the global financial and economic crisis is spreading to the economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the World Bank said, suggesting a list of immediate and medium-term countermeasures. This World Bank statement, carried out by local media on Friday, came only a …

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• 28 February

  Inefficient Macedonia Tenders Backfire – Report

  Macedonia has problems organizing transparent public procurements tenders and is ending up with many of them getting scrapped , shows the latest research by the local Centre for Civil Communications. Having monitored public procurements and tenders in the last year , the Centre noted that only 60 percent of the …

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• 28 February

  Macedonia Industrial Output Drops In January

  Macedonia’s industrial output dropped a staggering 16.7 percent in January 2009 compared with the same month last year, the State Statistical Office said. The industry has been marking a steady decline over the past few months due to the global financial downturn. The latest figures show that the situation in …

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• 27 February

  Afghanistan’s defense minister warns against U.S. pullback

  Afghanistan’s defense minister warned Thursday that the Obama administration’s proposed changes in U.S. war strategy risk undermining Kabul’s civilian government because they appear to scale back U.S. goals in the country.Abdul Rahim Wardak said he was troubled by recent comments from senior U.S. officials that they were “lowering expectations” in …

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• 26 February

  Slovenian Party Head Changes Mind about Referendum

  Zmago Jelincic, the president of the Slovenian National Party, had a change of heart. This morning, before a meeting between Croatian and Slovenian prime ministers Ivo Sanader and Borut Pahor, he told the media he was against a referendum on Croatia’s membership in NATO because his party “does not want …

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• 26 February

  Sharp Fall In Eastern European Immigrants

  The number of Eastern Europeans applying to live and work in Britain has fallen sharply, in part due to the ailing UK economy, a weaker pound and new building work in Poland, the government said on Tuesday. Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said applications from eight Eastern European countries nearly halved …

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• 26 February

  Medvedev To Insist Estonia Find Russian`s Killers

  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said he will insist Estonia prosecutes the killers of an ethnic Russian whose death in a riot two years ago became a source of tension between the ex-Soviet neighbours. Relations between Russia and Estonia reached a recent low two years ago when the Estonian authorities …

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