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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September 3, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Bulgaria, the European Union’s poorest member state and a rare fiscal bright spot for the bloc, has indefinitely frozen long-held plans to adopt the single currency, marking the latest fiscally prudent country to cool its enthusiasm for the embattled currency.
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September 3, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Croatia, Eurasia, Eurasia News
A fifth indictment has been filed against Ivo Sanader for damaging the state budget to the tune of 26 million kuna (3.6 million euro), a Zagreb County court spokesperson Kresimir Devcic confirmed on Saturday.Sanader was indicted with former agriculture minister Petar Cobankovic, former deputy Stjepan Fiolic and one other person. …
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September 3, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has waded into the row over whether Bosniaks [Muslims] have the right to commemorate a man they see as a local hero – but whom Serbs revile as a wartime collaborator.In a speech to parliament Dacic, said that he was against the rehabilitation of collaborators with …
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September 3, 2012 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Head of agricultural union supports EU parliamentarian’s view that agriculture will be one of the most challenging issues in the next stage of Montenegro’s European integration talks.An EU official’s remarks – that Montenegro will have to work hard to modernise agriculture as part of its EU accession process – has …
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