June 12, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Serbia
Residents of the Serbian capital have been able to pay their electricity bills via text message since May 23. For now the system is available only to Dina card holders who use the Telekom mobile network, but the plan is to offer the same service to all Belgraders by the …
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June 12, 2012 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
High Representative Valentin Inzko says it is shameful, 17 years after the signing of the Dayton peace deal, that so many people have never been able to return to their own homes. Speaking at a round table on sustainable returns in the European Academy in Banja Luka, Inzko said that …
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June 8, 2012 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
Albania’s parties failed to elect a president in the third round of voting by MPs for the presidency. The main opposition Socialists blamed
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June 8, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic believes that Serbia has done everything asked of it in order to start EU accession talks in the fall. “I expect to finally find out in Brussels what no one in Serbia has heard so far, which is whether
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June 8, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Vuk Jeremic, the outgoing Serbian Foreign Minister, has become the first Serb to preside over the UN General Assembly. Representatives of the UN member states have elected Vuk Jeremic of the Democratic Party in Serbia as president of the UN General Assembly.
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June 8, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkey has never had and will never have territorial claims to Bulgaria and other neighbors, Turkish ambassador to Bulgaria Ismail Aramaz said at a meeting with Bulgarian Foreign Minister
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June 8, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Montenegrin President refuses to appoint an ambassador to Pristina until Montenegrins obtain ethnic minority status in Kosovo. “I will neither sign the decree on the appointment
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June 8, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov says Sofia would object to any solution to the Greece-Macedonia name dispute that resulted in the former becoming known as Northern Macedonia. Borisov said his country objected to the idea of neighbouring
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June 7, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Romania News
Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to the Schengen Agreement is expected to be a key priority for the upcoming Cypriot EU Presidency, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry announced. He discussed about Schengen his counterparts from Romania and Cyprus. The three
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June 7, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
The EU Committee called after a meeting on Tuesday on the European Council to end the three-year stalemate over Macedonia’s EU accession, imposed by Greece. For the third consecutive year, the European Commission last autumn
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