September 1, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
MACEDONIA Lustration procedures, focusing on past security service ties, begin for all public officials in Macedonia on Tuesday, with prominent public office holders the first under the spotlight. Public office holders have until the end of September to submit a statement to the parliamentary Commission for the Verification of Facts, …
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September 1, 2009 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
ALBANIA The CEO of Miami-based company AEY, who is suspected of conducting a shady munitions deal with Albanian authorities to ship Chinese-made ammunition to the Afghan army, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy in Florida. The dealer, 24-year-old Efraim E. Diveroli, who is often described as a weapons “genius”, admitted that …
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September 1, 2009 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
BiH Bosnia’s top western envoy has urged Croatia, Slovenia and Turkey to provide further support to Bosnia’s bid for full NATO and EU membership. On Monday, Bosnia’s High Representative Valentin Inzko met Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, oin the …
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August 31, 2009 Eurasia Press, Romania Press, Special Reporters
„La baza [tratativelor] va sta principiul devotamentului faţă de patrie” (Mark Tkaciuk, deputat PCRM) Nero a fost acuzat de poporul său că ar fi dat foc Romei. A rămas, din această pricină, prototipul conducătorului politic care, pentru a-şi satisface dorinţele personale delirante, este în stare să sacrifice totul, inclusiv sursa …
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August 31, 2009 Balkan Press, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia Press, Special Reporters
BiH Vlada Federacije BiH, odnosno njena resorna ministarstva, u protekloj godini nisu naplatili više od 165 miliona KM koncesionih naknada, potvrđeno je u Komisiji za koncesije FBiH. Predsjednik Komisije Šefik Koričić tvrdi da se situacija u ovoj godini nije promijenila u odnosu na prošlu. Kaže da ne zna zašto nadležna …
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August 31, 2009 Balkan Press, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia Press, Special Reporters
BiH Hrvatska stranka prava (HSP) Đapić-dr Jurišić mogla bi, umjesto HDZ BiH i HDZ 1990, postati novi partner SDA u formiranju vlasti u Federaciji BiH. Ova najava uslijedila je nakon što su u četvrtak ministri iz dva HDZ-a napustili sjednicu Vlade FBiH nezadovoljni promjenom trase koridora 5c na području Hercegovine. …
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August 31, 2009 Balkan Press, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia Press, Special Reporters
BiH Vijeće ministara BiH u prvih šest mjeseci ove godine usvojilo je manje od deset odsto planiranih zakona dok je državni parlament uspio realizirati tek 23 odsto svog plana. Podaci su ovo o radu Vijeća ministara i parlamenta BiH koje su juče predstavili Centri civilnih inicijativa (CCI), nevladina organizacija koja …
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August 31, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News
BULGARIA Bulgaria’s Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov has rejected as untrue media reports that talks were to be held with Arab investors interested in the country’s Belene nuclear power station project. On August 30 2009, quoting a report by a Kuwaiti news agency that interviewed Traikov, Bulgarian newspaper Standart …
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August 31, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
SERBIA The EU is currently not disposed to further enlargement, says Erhard Busek, the special coordinator for the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. “It’s very thankless to predict the speed of Serbia’s European integration, or that of the other countries in the region,” the Austrian politician told daily Večernje …
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August 31, 2009 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News, Serbia
BiH Parties from the Bosnian Federation have condemned Serbian President Boris Tadić’s meeting with Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović. Amir Zurkić from the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) said that Tadić’s meeting with the leaders of the Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) and the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina …
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