Eurasia Press & News

The US Department of State has criticised Romania in its annual human rights report, for ‘problems in several areas’ including government corruption, prison and detention center conditions and some restrictions on the freedom of the press, Newsin news agency reports. The report concludes that the Romanian government generally respected the …

Dozens of physically handicaped and disabled people on wheelchairs and crutches broke into the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim)-Croat Federation parliament in Sarajevo on Tuesday, protesting against belt-tightening legislation that will cut down on their social payments. The protest underlined the worsening economic and social conditions plaguing Bosnia on the heels of …

The World Bank chief of mission in Albania, Camille Nuamah, on Wednesday presented the bank’s report on the controversial demolition of a village in southern Albania, blaming the government in Tirana as well as the project coordinator, the son-in-law of Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha. According to the management report, …

Russia’s Gazprom and Serbia’s gas company Srbijagas have decided to postpone “for some time” the signing of an agreement on a joint venture for building the South Stream gas pipeline, previously due to start in early March. Politika daily quoted sources close to Gazprom as saying the reason was that …

Romania’s Finance Minister says Romani will probably soon start negotiations with the International Monetary Fund or the European Union for a grant aimed at protecting its slowing economy from the global financial crisis. “It is better to avoid a crisis, than to face it. And no loan is too expensive …

KABUL (Reuters) – Devastated by nearly three decades of war, Afghanistan‘s isolation from world trade and global finance might for once be to its advantage, shielding the country from the economic and financial meltdown abroad. Sandwiched between Kabul’s main mosque and a foul-smelling river is the teeming money market where …

he economies of Bulgaria and Romania are much more vulnerable to the effects of the global financial crisis compared to those of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. This becomes clear from a report of the financial analysis agency, Standard & Poor’s, cited by the Financial Times. Standard & Poor’s …

Serbia’s secret services are discovering more details about top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic every day, with the latest information suggesting he spent a two-week holiday on the Montenegrin coast in 1997 but was stingy and ungracious with his guards and staff. With Mladic’s arrest a condition for Serbia’s European …

The European Union will probably in March unfreeze a trade agreement with Serbia and ratify the pre-accession Stabilisation and Association Agreement, Luxemburg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said on Wednesday in an interview. Serbia signed the SAA in April 2008, but there has been no consensus in the EU on its …

Kosovo’s former Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, said he was willing to be the mediator for peace talks in Uganda between the government in Kampala and the Muslim Allied Democratic Forces rebels. The Allied Democratic Forces, ADF, said they wanted Haradinaj, a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army acquitted last …