The European Commission is expected to recommend the launch of negotiations for the accession of Albania and North Macedonia in May. This was declared yesterday by EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn during the proceedings of the European Parliament Committee for Foreign Affairs. This meeting was considered to have a special importance because it was the […]
Stability of the region is the price North Macedonia should pay to Greece for protecting the Macedonian airspace, under an agreement of Tuesday’s meeting of the High-Level Cooperation Council between Athens and Skopje. As part of the meeting, several memorandums for cooperation were signed, including a document between the defense ministries envisaging that North Macedonia’s […]
A historic visit which aims at leaving behind hate and division and to build bridges of cooperation and understanding. This was declared by the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras in Skopje following a meeting that he had with his counterpart, Zoran Zaev. He said that he and PM Zaev are building a different story for […]
Betty Baziana, domestic partner of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who accompanied him on his first official visit to Skopje, visited the grave of the famous Greek Georgios Zorba, who was buried at the Butel cemetery in Skopje. The visit to Zorba’s grave was within the program of Tsipras’ partner, but this was done discreetly. […]
Prime Ministers of North Macedonia and Greece Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras and two countries’ ministers signed Tuesday in Skopje several agreements to boost bilateral cooperation. Prime Ministers Zaev and Tsipras, during joint session of the High-Level Cooperation Council between the two countries, signed an action plan to strengthen overall cooperation in accordance with the […]
North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and visiting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hold Tuesday tête-a-tête meeting in the Government. PM Tsipras has arrived early Tuesday in the Republic of North Macedonia for a first-ever visit to the country. The Greek delegation led by Tsipras has been welcomed by Deputy PM and Defense Minister Radmila […]
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has arrived to Skopje today in what is considered to be a historic visit and the first one by a Greek prime minister since the country declared its independence in 1991. The head of the Greek government was received by PM Zoran Zaev and the government delegation through a simple ceremony, […]
Alexis Tsipras will land at the airport in Skopje today, which in the current turbulent chronology of the Macedonian-Greek relations will be listed as the first Greek Prime Minister who arrived on an official visit to the country. His visit means achieving what seemed unlikely in the first years of independence, and which became impossible […]
European Parliament has voted today in favour of its position to continue negotiations for the visa liberalization process with Kosovo. In a message on Twitter, European Parliament’s rapporteur on Kosovo, Tanja Fajon said that it’s now to the EU Council to decide. “A good majority in favour of visa liberalization for Kosovo. Thank you, European […]
Bulgaria’s National Assembly agreed on March 27 to extend by three months the deadline for an ad hoc committee investigating allegations in European and Bulgarian media about corruption in granting citizenship to foreigners. The committee was set up by a December 14 decision following the arrest in October of State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad head […]
The first possible date for early general elections could be in June, said Nebojsa Stefanovic, high official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). However, Stefanovic, who is also interior minister, did not exclude early voting in 2020, as another possibility. “It is hard to say when the elections would take place… because that depends […]
Mystery continues to surround allegations of a link between the March 2018 poisoning attack on former Russian intelligence officer Sergey Skripal and the April 2015 poisoning of Bulgarian weapons industry businessman Emil Gebrev. The link, according to claims by the website Bellingcat, takes the form of Sergey Fedotov, an officer of Russian military intelligence GRU, […]
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has sacked Deputy Minister of Justice Vesna Mikic, who belongs to the Serbian community. Premier Haradinaj said that the decision comes as a result of the hate speech and unacceptable statements made by the official in question. PM Haradinaj’s decision followed deputy minister Mikic’s comments two days ago with regards […]
On Sunday, Kosovo marked the 20th anniversary of NATO bombings on Serbian forces, which led to the end of a war that lasted almost two years. The aerial bombing campaign, which lasted 78 days, was used by Serb forces on land to take their revenge on Albanian ethnics. Over 10 thousand people were killed, over 800 […]
The decision of the Hague tribunal to impose a life sentence on the former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has sparked a variety of reactions in Serbia. Some have welcomed the decision, some have criticized it and some others have been silent, either because they do not want to be reminded of their “sinful” […]
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague ruled on Wednesday on the appeal judgment to the first Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadžić, sentencing him to life imprisonment. The appeal judgment was pronounced after reviewing the defence team’s and the prosecution’s appeals to the first instance judgment handed down by the Hague Tribunal […]
EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn declared today that he condemns the violent protests taken place in Albania and several other Balkan countries. He sent out a message for the countries of the region saying that “political changes can only happen through democratic processes”. According to Hahn, it’s not the EU’s job to say who should […]
President of Albania, Ilir Meta declared today that he’s ready to hand his resignation if needed in order for a solution to be found for the political crisis that has engulfed the country. President Meta has accused both political sides of being irresponsible. During a meeting that he held in the southern city of Pogradec, […]
Across the spectrum, Bulgaria’s political parties are manoeuvring ahead of the country’s May 26 2019 European Parliament elections, with both major and minor ones seeking alliances as well as honing their messages ahead of what is expected to be a hotly-contested poll. The race is expected to be tightest between the two largest parties, Prime […]
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was sentenced to life in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal appeals chamber on Wednesday. The former political leader of Bosnian Serbs was handed 40 years in 2016 for genocide at Srebrenica in 1995 and other crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Both Karadzic and the […]
