Category: Balkans
Balkans 15.06.21 | 10:37

Government of Slovenia declares victory over the coronavirus

The Government of Slovenia declared victory over the Third Wave of the pandemic, as only 24 new cases were diagnosed in the past day. This means that the state of epidemic is officially lifted. Some of the restrictions will remain – citizens are still required to wear masks in public indoor spaces...
Balkans 10.06.21 | 11:12

Radev says he supports Macedonia’s EU integration, but did not say under what conditions

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev held Wednesday a video conference meeting with European Parliament President David Sassoli, discussing measures for management of the coronavirus pandemic and EU-related topics, with a focus on the enlargement policy, MIA reports from Sofia. President Radev said Bulgaria...
Balkans 09.06.21 | 10:32

There is not a single photo of Skaljarski gang’s Igor Vukotic who has a Macedonian passport: An accountant with the same name had to change his identity

Igor Vukotic, brother of the leader of the Skaljarski gang Jovica Vukotic is considered a mysterious person in the Balkans. When his name is entered in the search engines, several appear with that name, but none of them is real. The real Vukotic took the deputy position in the Skaljarski gang after Igor...
Balkans 09.06.21 | 09:24

Rama-Yanev meeting: Bulgaria hods to framework position, Albania will not take sides in dispute between Skopje and Sofia

The Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and Albania discussed bilateral relations and current issues on Albania’s European agenda and Albania’s EU path, as well as opportunities for further cooperation of common interest in a number of sectors such as the economy, agriculture, mining, energy and...
Balkans 08.06.21 | 09:29

Stoev confirmed Mickoski’s statements: Sofia stands by the declaration and seeks legal guarantees from Skopje

In a conversation with the ambassadors of the EU member states, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Svetlan Stoev reaffirmed the Bulgarian position on the European perspective of the Western Balkan countries. Regarding the EU integration of the Republic of Macedonia, Svetlan Stoev stressed that...
Balkans 05.06.21 | 23:02

2,000 citizens from Macedonia and BiH vaccinated in Serbia over the weekend

Free vaccination of citizens from neighboring countries continues in Serbia, with Macedonian citizens flocking to Vranje over the weekend to get the Covid-19 jab, and the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina getting vaccinated in Loznica, RTS reported. According to the Serbian public broadcaster, during...
Balkans 04.06.21 | 17:15

Under the Borisov’s government organ transplants were performed on poor people from Ukraine and Moldova for super rich clients

Bulgaria’s health ministry revealed on Thursday that under the former government of Boyko Borisov the state hospital performed organ transplants on poor live donors for rich “uncles” operating under a false identity for which the ministry has “every reason to believe that they are not relatives,...
Balkans 04.06.21 | 17:05

EU refuses to disclose the contents of the “non-paper” on border changes in Western Balkans

Following a formal request by journalists for insight in the contents of the recent Slovenian non-paper, the EU Council services refused access to the document but confirmed its existence. In the response of the General Secretariat for access to the Slovenian non-paper, the EU Council said: The General...
Balkans 04.06.21 | 09:13

Serbia starts producing Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine

Serbia officially starts producing Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. The substance needed for the production of the Sputnik V vaccine arrived at Serbia’s Torlak Institute on Thursday. Serbian Minister of Innovation and Technological Development Nenad Popovic said on Thursday that everything...
Macedonia Economy Balkans 30.05.21 | 11:18

Zaev promises billions in investments – again

Few betrayed promise Zoran Zaev made compare to the promised date to begin EU accession talks – the promise of enforcing the rule of law equally comes to mind, or the one about fighting corruption. But this week, it was his grand press conference in which he announced eight billion EUR in investments...
Macedonia Balkans 26.05.21 | 16:48

Turkish mobster Sedat Peker is accusing Erdogan and his officials of crimes

Turkish mobster Sedat Peker announced that he is revealing a series of scandals involving President Redzep Tayyip Erdogan and his officials. Through five Youtube messags, he is accusing officials from Erdogan’s party of murder, rapes, drug smuggling and other crimes, but also claims that he was...
Balkans 21.05.21 | 17:04

Macedonians in Bulgaria: Denial of Macedonian minority is last remnant of totalitarian policies in EU

A group of organizations representing Macedonians in Bulgaria has published a report on the violation of the rights of Macedonians covering last year’s events. The report, published by the Macedonian International Human Rights Movement, cites numerous examples of violations of political rights...
Balkans 21.05.21 | 15:57

Bulgaria will place a monument to Ss. Cyril and Methodius in the city of Dimitrovgrad in Serbia

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev will travel to the Serbian city of Dimitrovgrad on Sunday to unveil a monument to Ss. Cyril and Methodius and to discuss the position of the Bulgarian minority in Serbia with President Aleksandar Vucic. Bulgaria, which is blocking Macedonia’s EU accession talks over...
Balkans 17.05.21 | 23:05

Milanović: What is being done to Macedonia is trespassing, it shouldn’t be allowed

Macedonia is currently in an impossible position in the European integration process. It’s the conditions set for the country at a relatively advanced stage of negotiations with the EU, and it refers to content in some history textbooks. That’s trespassing into intimate space, it’s something that...
Balkans 14.05.21 | 11:57

Before arrival, travelers to Greece must fill in online Passenger Locator Form

Greece is reopening Friday the Evzoni border crossing for Macedonian nationals after more than a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, apart from presenting a vaccination certificate, a negative PCR test or a positive antibody result for entry, travelers are required to fill in the Passenger Locator...
Balkans 14.05.21 | 09:43

Did Zaev ask Mitsotakis about the removal of the Macedonian “Krste Misirkov” association in Greece?

On the day when Zoran Zaev had a meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, Greece did not allow the registration of the Macedonian “Krste Misirkov” association from Voden. The association lasted only one day and was removed from the register of cultural institutions...
Balkans 13.05.21 | 12:10

Varvitsiotis: Greece doesn’t accept decoupling of Macedonia and Albania on the EU road

Europe must keep its promises and there should be no delay in the accession process for Macedonia and Albania, said Greece’s Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis at the Delphi Forum in Athens and stressed that they do not agree with the possible decoupling of Skopje and...
Balkans 13.05.21 | 11:19

In order to start EU talks, Macedonia has to accept that it speaks Bulgarian dialect, that Goce Delcev and the Ilinden Uprising are Bulgarian, give up its minority in Bulgaria

The so-called framework position of Bulgaria in relation to Macedonia has been published on social media. This position was the position of the government of Boyko Borisov, and now also of the caretaker government of Stefan Janev. There is nothing good in, just that Macedonia has to literally give up...
Balkans 12.05.21 | 13:11

Bulgaria is trying to present the dispute with Macedonia as EU issue, not just a bilateral one

Bulgaria convinces the EU that the behavior of “one candidate country” is not its bilateral, but a problem of the EU, because it is contrary to the principles on which the Union is built and operates. Bulgaria is trying to free the problem with a candidate country from the prefix ‘bilateral’...
Balkans 05.05.21 | 22:27

Albania lifts quarantine requirements for travelers from Macedonia

The technical committee of experts in charge of dealing with the pandemic this afternoon revoked the decision for mandatory two-week quarantine for all persons entering Albania from Macedonia and Greece, MIA’s correspondent in Tirana reported.
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