The Radio-television of Serbia (RTS) should stop ignoring the ongoing protests in Serbia which take place more than three months, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) stated today. In contrast to some journalists’ associations which have condemned the storming of the RTS last Saturday, RWB warned that public service should not be a “propaganda tool and should […]
Greece’s Independent Authority for Public Revenue has notified the country’s customs services over the procedures to be used arising from the Prespa Agreement. The document, dated March 13, contains a general section and a section with special guidelines for transit, import, export, passengers and means of transport, explaining in detail the guidelines to the customs […]
In its fourth opinion on Albania, the Council of Europe’s Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) urges Tirana to make operational the county’s law on the protection of national minorities through the adoption of further legislation. Examining the progress made and providing recommendations on the basis of the last year’s […]
Several persons have been detained including one high school pupil, after the anti-government protests held in Belgrade during the weekend. The opposition headed by the Alliance for Serbia (SZS) demand that all detained be released until 3 P.M. On Saturday evening, protesters led by opposition politicians have stormed the public broadcasting service RTS; since the […]
North Macedonia has proved it is open to European prospects, we wanted to send a message that when a country is trying to align itself with the European acquis, we Europeans should respond in the same way, Greek Foreign Minister Georgios Katrougalos said after a working breakfast for friends of North Macedonia in Brussels. Greek […]
At today’s press conference, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic mentioned the leaders of the protests Jeremic and Djilas as great friends of Zoran Zaev, and mentioned the prison sentence of Mitko Cavkov, as well as the double standards of the Western embassies. “Zaev’s great friends, Zoran Zaev’s great friends, tycoon leaders Djilas and Jeremic, boasted for sentencing […]
Protesters broke into Serbia’s state television building for the first time in almost 20 years and Albanian police used tear gas to disperse a crowd trying to break into the parliament on a day of anti-government demonstrations across the Balkans. In Belgrade demonstrators broke into the state-run Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) building on Saturday, demanding to […]
Albania is the friendliest country we have. We are helping each other move forward in the future and ultimately, providing our citizens with better living conditions, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said during his visit to Tirana. “This friendship has helped us improve many things, including a one-stop shop and bolstering confidence into our […]
A series of meetings in North Macedonia with the aim of further promoting the joint implementation of the project “Nea Mesimvria – Skopje pipeline” were held by senior officials from DESFA (Hellenic Gas Transmision Sytem Operator) and the State Energy Utilization Company MER JSC Skopje. As stated in a relevant DESFA statement, representatives of MER […]
Bulgaria’s Cabinet has approved an agreement with the Republic of North Macedonia on cooperation on disaster response, the government information service in Sofia stated on March 13. The agreement was signed in Strumica on November 23, 2017. The document defines the general framework for cooperation in the field of prevention, preparedness and response to disasters, […]
The Turks have become poorer by USD 2,848 in five years Economists are troubled by the figures on the growth of the Turkish economy. While according to the Turkish Statistical Service the annual growth rate reached 2.6% in 2018, growth in the last two quarters had a negative sign and this is an indication that […]
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has commented the meeting that he had with German chancellor Angela Merkel advisers, Jan Hecker and Matthias Leuttenberg, who travelled to Belgrade after their visit to Pristina. Initially there was no official statement, but in the end, Vucic commented the meeting. “We’re not close to reaching an agreement with Kosovo, because […]
The countdown for the most crucial European elections in the history of the EU, in May 2019, has already begun and political formations are making their visions clear for the future of the European Union. The main issue of these European Parliament elections has “existential” characteristics, as in recent years the EU has lost much […]
Opposition in Albania held another protest yesterday in front of parliament. Everything started with tight security measures in this area of the capital and MPs who made their way inside parliament to start their session at 9 am in order to prevent any possible clash with demonstrators. Afterwards, PM Edi Rama also arrived there along with […]
Philip Reeker, who is soon expected to be appointed Assistant US Secretary of State for Europe, called on the government of Kosovo to lift the tax imposed on Serbian imports, considering this as a condition for dialogue between the two countries to resume. “Kosovo will not give up anything by negotiating, but it risks everything […]
Opposition in Albania has warned for bigger protests today after the central electoral body in the country has decided to replace opposition MPs who decided to resign two weeks ago as part of a unanimous decision taken by several opposition parties. This decision aimed at pressuring the current socialist led government to resign, form an interim […]
“You had a name dispute, you did not have territorial differences with North Macedonia, which is easier,” Ivica Dacic said at the beginning of his speech at the 4th Economic Forum of Delphi, while congratulating the event organizers and stressing that he himself, as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, had warned […]
(Rama-Basha agreement, Rama’s resignation and early elections, a long crisis without a solution, the replacement of the opposition and Albania in chaos. These are the five different options that the opposition’s decisions can lead the country to. Albanian Free Press’ Roland Qafoku analyzes the situation by offering a prediction as to what is expected to […]
The country’s capital city has once again been the scene of a massive protest organized by the opposition. Yesterday, the ruling party decided to convene parliament in a plenary session to avoid the protest that the opposition had announced for Thursday. The situation became tense and escalated in physical clashes between opposition MPs and riot […]
The EU is expected to grant an additional EUR 30 million to reinforce the effort of the Western Balkans to complete the necessary changes for their energy upgrade. Thus, six countries, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, according to the EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Johannes Hahn, are expected to receive the […]
