Eurasia Press & News

ATHENS, Greece Unknown attackers lobbed homemade explosives at an office of the ruling New Democracy party in Thessaloniki on Thursday (July 23rd), causing a fire and subsequent property damage. A short time later, a car belonging to the Cypriot consulate in Thessaloniki was seriously damaged in a similar attack. Earlier …

Albania’s Council of Ministers decided on Wednesday to freeze all investments, from August 3, due to weakening revenue streams and higher expenditures in the run-up to the recent national elections. With the June 28 parliamentary polls behind them, experts say Albania’s politicians must initiate a candid debate on the local …

On a visit to Georgia, the US Vice President has vowed strong support for the country, a year after its war with Russia. But he has also touched on tense internal politics. Joe Biden made a point of meeting members of the opposition, who have complained that President Mikheil Saakashvili …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday reiterated Moscow’s negative stance on the possibility of weapons supplies to Georgia from abroad. “I have repeatedly commented on the issue of Georgia’s rearmament,” the foreign minister said. “I proceed from the fact that those who supplied Saakashvili’s regime with arms that were …

Romania has taken a number of welcome steps since the European Commission’s 2008 report to re-launch the reform process and a “new momentum” had been established which has resulted in a series of positive steps, the EC said in its July 22 report on the country’s performance under the Co-operation …

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 …

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 …