Eurasia Press & News

US president Barack Obama is to name Marc S Ellenbogen, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, as ambassador in Sofia to replace Nancy McEldowney, a Bulgarian media report said on July 24 2009. Ellenbogen (47) chairs the board of directors of the Global Panel Foundation, Standart said.The paper quoted diplomatic sources. There …

“În privinţa incertitudinilor legate de stocarea gazelor naturale în Ucraina, Comisia UE a recomandat statelor membre să se pregătească mai bine pentru perioada de iarnă şi să-şi asigure depozitele de gaze naturale din toate sursele disponibile”… (iulie 2009) Nimic nou pe frontul de Est? Şi da, şi nu. Vizele pentru …

Tarik Sadović nije više ministar sigurnosti BiH. Četvrta je to personalna promjena u aktuelnom sazivu Vijeća ministara BiH. Smjena Sadovića kao niti ranije kadrovske promjene neće državnu vladu učiniti efikasnijom. Ministri su samo eksponenti svojih stranaka koje imaju potpuno suprotstavljene koncepte funkcioniranja države, a samim tim i Vijeća ministara BiH.

SARAJEVO Vijeće ministara BiH utvrdilo je jučer prijedloge izmjena zakona o Sudu i Tužilaštvu BiH kojim se produžava mandat međunarodnih sudija i tužilaca do kraja 2012. godine, ali samo onima u Apelacionom odjelu u predmetima ratnih zločina. “Izmjenama Zakona o Sudu BiH produžava se mandat međunarodnih sudija do 31. decembra …

SARAJEVO Vlasti SAD označile su ministra sigurnosti BiH jednim od kočničara usvajanja zakona o borbi protiv terorizma. Ova je ocjena jedan od razloga navedenih u zahtjevu za smjenu ministra sigurnosti BiH, koju je Predstavničkom domu parlamenta BiH jučer obrazložio predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH Nikola Špirić.

Greece over the past few years has become a source country concerning the entrance of an unspecified amount of illegal immigrants, mostly from Asian and African states, that enter mainly through the Greek-Turkish borders and with the complicity or indifference of the authorities of the neighboring country, despite the bilateral …

Due to sudden health problems, EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn has canceled his scheduled meetings in Sarajevo on Friday, EU officials confirm. During his three-day tour of the Balkans, Rehn visited Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia. He arrived in Sarajevo on Thursday evening and was supposed to meet Bosnian officials and …

Facing a tight EU reform schedule, Macedonia’s prime minister will seek consensus on speeding the neccessary changes in a meeting with political party leaders on Friday. Hoping to promote the rapid passage of related legislation, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has summoned the head of the opposition, Social Democrat’s leader Branko …

Three Albanian Kosovars have been arrested by Serbian gendarmerie near the border with Serbia on Wednesday for allegedly crossing the border illegally, Kosovo police confirm. Sabri, Nexhip and Riad Dema were farming their land in the municipality of Pudojevo on Wednesday evening when they were arrested, their family told daily …

The Croatian Defence Ministry has turned down a NATO proposal for the construction of a centre for training against terrorist attacks with biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, the Jutarnji list daily reports. If the proposal had been accepted, thie facility would have been the largest training ground in Europe with …