September 5, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Montenegro
The parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, PACE, is to send an observers’ mission to Montenegro – thus being the second international body to announce that it is monitoring the elections along with the OSCE.A team of 11 PACE parliamentarians are to observe the general elections in Montenegro, scheduled …
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September 4, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Macedonia’s new Lustration Law, aimed at rooting out former police collaborators, may encounter the fate as the previous one, as key provisions are again contested before the Constitutional Court.Macedonia’s Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and a retired lawyer, Stamen Filipov – in two separate motions filed to the court on …
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September 4, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Two senior Brussels officials on Monday criticised Bosnia for not keeping to the first EU deadline laid out in the so-called Road Map, relating to the Sejdic-Finci case.The Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fule, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, on Monday said that Bosnia had …
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September 4, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
PM and Finance MInister say they no longer see the benefits of Bulgaria joining the troubled single currency, even the country now satisfies all the criteria.Bulgaria has decided to postpone indefinitely its long-held plans to adopt the euro, the Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, have …
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September 4, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
The mandate of the EU’s rule of law mission, EULEX, will be extended before September 10, Kosovo Asssembly Speaker Jakup Krasniqi said.Kosovo’s parliament is to vote this the week on a resolution to prolong the mandate of EULEX, the speaker of parliament said in Pristina. President Atifete Jahjaga has already …
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September 4, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia Press, Serbia
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will be among the first speakers to address the UN General Assembly at the opening ceremony later in September.President Nikolic is flying to New York at the end of September to address the United Nations General Assembly. Vuk Jeremic, the former foreign minister and the new …
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September 4, 2012 Albania, Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Environmental activists are up in arms over the Electoral College’s decision to reject an appeal against a decision by the Central Electoral Commission, CEC, on a referendum on waste imports.The specialized court on electoral issues on Friday rejected an appeal from the Alliance Against Waste Imports, AKIP, which would have …
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September 4, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Ministry of Economic Development can proceed with the privatization of the Post and Telecommunications company, after a court threw out a complaint from Monaco Telecom.Kosovo’s government has received a green light to proceed with the privatization of 75 per cent of the shares in the Post and Telecom company, PTK, …
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September 3, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Belgrade has agreed to take part in international meetings alongside Kosovo with a footnote included in the accompanying documents and not the nameplate.Serbia’s government adopted on Sunday evening an instruction to state officials regulating their participation in events also attended by Kosovo representatives.
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September 3, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Dnevnik: Macedonia expects to get EU talks date in December, says president
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