Eurasia Press & News

SKOPJE, Macedonia New legislation, reforming the functioning of parliament in line with EU accession pre-conditions, looks set to feature on the agenda of Monday’s legislative session. After a short summer break, Macedonia’s legislators have until September 15 to pass a series of laws that the European Commission, EC, has set …

BUCHAREST, Romania Romania’s squabbling governing coalition agreed on Monday to put aside its differences, agreeing 32 anti-crisis measures that will be enforced on September 1. Prime Minister Emil Boc’s Democrat-Liberals (PD-L) and the Social Democrat Party (PSD) agreed to increase budget revenues, to cut budget spending and to increase liquidity …

SARAJEVO, BANJALUKA Valentin Incko, visoki predstavnik za BiH, zatražio je juče od zemljišnoknjižnih ureda i katastara da pripreme sve informacije o državnoj imovini kako bi bio ubrzan njen popis, saopšteno je iz OHR-a. “Visoki predstavnik je uputio pismo zemljišnoknjižnim uredima i katastrima u BiH u kojem traži da pripreme sve …

KOSOVO New Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen made his maiden visit to Kosovo yesterday to evaluate his plans to trim the alliance’s security mission in the breakaway Serbian province a decade after war. Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, hopes to gradually wind down the presence of Nato’s 13,800-strong Kosovo …

MOLDOVA According to this information, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova Marian Lupu will occupy the President’s post, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova Vlad Filat – the Parliament Chairman’s post, Leader of the Moldova Noastra Alliance Serafim Urechean – the Prime Minister’s post. Leaders the Alliance …

MOLDOVA The decision is final and takes effect upon pronouncement. The Constitutional Court on Friday validated the outcome of the July 29 elections and confimed the distribution of seats in parliament: 48 for PCRM, 18 for PLDM, 15 for PL, 13 for PDM, and 7 for AMN. The Court dismissed …

MOLDOVA Until August 29 the outgoing president of Moldova must issue a decree to convene the eighteenth Parliament for the first sitting The Constitutional Court (CC) dismissed the PPCD’s request to recount the votes as groundless. The Court’s decision on the July 29 elections passed on August 14 does not …

KYIV, Ukraine Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko rejected criticism of Kiev’s policy towards Moscow in a stinging attack from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who had accused him of being anti-Russian. “I am very disappointed by the openly unfriendly” comments by Medvedev, he said in a letter to the Russian president published …

TURKEY The government will continue to take every step necessary to achieve success with its recently announced Kurdish initiative, regardless of what the cost may be, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said. Speaking at his party’s Extended Province Chairmen meeting on the eighth anniversary of the Justice and Development …

The impact of the constant objection by French and German leaders to Turkey’s European Union membership drive has been revealed through a public survey that showed a significant loss of confidence in these two countries among the public. According to the survey, conducted this month by the Ankara-based International Strategic …