December 21, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Once Serbia becomes a candidate for European Union membership, it will receive EUR 250mn from the European IPA funds. Economic analyst Goran Nikolić said that Serbia is currently using two installments from the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) funds worth EUR 200mn, and that once it becomes a candidate for …
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December 21, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Leader of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) Ali Ahmeti, as expected, was reelected at the Congress Saturday to rule the party next four years. In the 40-minute address to delegates at the Congress, Ahmeti has turned more attention to the implementation of the Framework Agreement, foreign policy, economics, reforms, …
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December 21, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Elections are expected to be re-run in Prizren, Gjilan and Lipjan because of ‘serious fraud and vote stealing’ during the December 13 Kosovo mayoral run-off. The Election Commission on Appeals and Complaints, ECAC, has asked the Central Election Commission, CEC, to rerun the poll in these municipalities after investigations revealed …
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December 21, 2009 Eurasia News
The Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) will be the most important party in Moldova in the next elections”, declared PLDM president Vlad Filat at the third Congress of the party on Saturday. Though having prepared a thick report to read from, Filat put it aside and engaged in an emotion-packed speech …
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December 21, 2009 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
Today the leaders of the Georgian radical opposition will gather in front of the Radisson Hotel in Tbilisi and travel to Kutaisi to participate in the protest action. This decision was taken yesterday at a meeting of opposition leaders in the Prima Vera hotel, Georgia’s Way party reported.
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December 21, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian President Boris Tadic travels to Stockholm on Tuesday to officially submit Serbia’s application for EU candidacy. The decision came after Tadic and the country’s Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic signed a request on Saturday night, in the name of the government, for EU candidacy.
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December 21, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Fully fledged membership of NATO and the European Union remains Macedonia’s top priority but the country will not accept blackmail from Greece in order to achieve these goals, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said. At a celebration of the 12th anniversary of his ruling VMRO-DPMNE party’s Union of Women, Gruevski said …
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December 21, 2009 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Moscow will ask the United Nations to control the work of international judges and prosecutores who are handling war crimes cases at Bosnia’s State Court after their mandate was recently extended by the top international envoy in the Balkan country. “Russia believes that the work of international jurists has to …
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December 21, 2009 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
A mayor has finally been elected to Bosnia’s ethnically divided city of Mostar after a 14-month political deadlock was broken by the top international envoy in the country, Valentin Inzko. Bosnian Croat Ljubo Beslic’s election to the post was made possible by Inzko’s decision last week to change the city …
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December 19, 2009 Balkan Press, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia Press, Special Reporters
Budžeti skoro svih nivoa vlasti u BiH uz mnogo sreće bit će usvojeni posljednjeg dana u ovoj godini. Bit će to svojevrsno čudo jer dosad su vlasti budžete usvajale u trećem ili četvrtom mjesecu godine za koju se taj budžet i odnosi. Ove godine je situacija malo drugačija. Pritisnuti zahtjevima …
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