Category: Balkans
Balkans 26.12.20 | 16:09

Slovenia no longer accepting PCR tests from Macedonia, region

The Slovenian government has decided as of Saturday to no longer accept negative PCR tests from non-EU member states, the Slovenian Embassy in Belgrade posted on its website. As MIA’s correspondent in Belgrade reported, PCR tests from Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo...
Balkans 26.12.20 | 12:31

Turkey to require negative PCR test for all incoming passengers

All passengers to Turkey will be required to produce a negative coronavirus test result taken within the past 72 hours of their travel starting Monday, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. Passengers will not be allowed on board planes to Turkey unless they provide a negative PCR test, Koca said on Twitter...
Balkans 25.12.20 | 18:07

Bulgaria and Greece receive the first shipment of coronavirus vaccines tomorrow

Greece expects to receive its shipment of coronavirus vaccines tomorrow, and to start inoculating the most critical categories of citizens on Sunday. The same day Bulgaria will begin its vaccination campaign. Greek hospitals will open over 1,000 vaccination sites and will begin by inoculating the Prime...
Balkans 24.12.20 | 15:24

Serbian PM Ana Brnabic receives first coronavirus vaccine dose

Serbia on Thursday officially launched its coronavirus vaccination programme, with Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and a member of the epidemic crisis management group, Darija Kisic-Tepavcevic, taking the first shots. “I want to personally demonstrate that the vaccine is safe,” Kisic-Tepavcevic said in...
Balkans 23.12.20 | 12:06

Vucic procured vaccines on time, Zaev is waiting for mercy from Borisov

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Wednesday that the vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine against coronavirus would start on Thursday. The first to receive the vaccine will be residents in nursing homes. They are the most endangered category, so we start with them, he said. He said that someone...
Balkans 23.12.20 | 11:16

Borisov boasts about giving coronavirus vaccines to Zaev

I have told PM Zoran Zaev, who has thanked us for assistance in procuring COVID-19 vaccines, that we’re always ready to help our closest neighbours and friends, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday morning. The situation is really difficult and we should...
Balkans 16.12.20 | 19:21

Greece extends travel ban with Macedonia until January 7

Greece has extended the air, sea and land travel ban for neighboring countries, including Macedonia, as well as the ban for third-country nationals until January 7. Based on the joint ministerial decision of the Greek government adopted on December 12, 2020, a ban for foreign nationals entering Greece...
Balkans 15.12.20 | 20:02

PCR test required to enter Serbia

The Serbian government has adopted new COVID-19 measures that enter into force on December 20, relating to the entry of Serbian nationals and foreign citizens in the country. Considering the New Year and Christmas holidays, a traditionally higher frequency of people at all border crossings is expected....
Balkans 13.12.20 | 18:34

Karakachanov with new provocation: Macedonians can also call themselves Martians, will that mean that Tsar Samuil is from Mars?

Macedonians can also call themselves Martians, will that mean that Tsar Samuil is from Mars?, mocks Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister Krasimir Karakachanov. Karakachanov stressed that the Bulgarian “no” to the negotiating framework is not final, but Macedonia must adhere to the implementation...
Balkans 10.12.20 | 12:16

Another provocation from Sofia: “May 24” has become a day of the Bulgarian alphabet

With the amendments to the Labor Law, the Bulgarian Parliament approved the renaming of the official name of the holiday of May 24th from Slavic Day to the day of the Bulgarian alphabet.
Balkans 09.12.20 | 15:16

Buckovski silent on Zaharieva’s insults: You’re building the nation and identity on anti-Bulgarian basis

The special negotiator of Zaev’s Government, Vlado Buckovski, met Wednesday in Sofia with the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ekaterina Zaharieva. Zaharieva reiterated her firm positions expressed previously in an interview with a Bulgarian television and stressed that what had been asked...
Macedonia Balkans 07.12.20 | 23:49

Shots fired as a major police raid is being conducted near Skopje

A major police operation is being conducted in the village of Aracinovo near Skopje. Official information is scarce, but witnesses are saying that a shoot-out occurred during the raid. According to unofficial reports, the police seized a large quantity of drugs, as well as weapons. Aracinovo, one of...
Balkans 07.12.20 | 12:10

Radev: Macedonia to recognize the historical truth, Bulgaria to defend its rights

Asked whether Bulgaria should defend its position on the Macedonian issue or give up in favor of Macedonia, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said that “we should wait for emotions to calm down and arm ourselves with patience, calm and common sense,” BGNES reported. Our brothers from the Republic...
Balkans 07.12.20 | 09:45

Karakachanov asks media not to translate statements from Macedonian into Bulgarian

Krasimir Karakachanov urges the Bulgarian Electronic Media Council to stop the Bulgarian media from translating the statements of Macedonian politicians into Bulgarian. The interviews of the “people from Macedonia” should not be translated into Bulgarian, reads the letter of VMRO-BND to the...
Balkans 05.12.20 | 14:28

Bulgarian intellectuals: Unacceptable to deny Macedonian nation, language; green-light talks immediately

Bulgaria should stop attaching undue weight to history, immediately unblock the start of EU negotiations with Macedonia, and implement the Friendship Treaty by working toward a warmer climate of cooperation, Bulgarian intellectuals write in an open letter to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. Also...
Balkans 25.11.20 | 11:57

It is not just Bulgaria: Other EU countries also oppose start of Macedonia’s EU accession negotiations

Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev says his country is not the only one blocking Macedonia’s EU path, and that other countries such as France and the Netherlands have doubts about starting negotiations. At the moment, an image is being created that Bulgaria is the only EU country...
Balkans 23.11.20 | 14:40

New provocation: Karakachanov says all Macedonian governments, from the first day of the country’s existence, are not normal

The Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister today accused that Macedonia wants to stab Bulgaria in the back and that the Macedonian governments that have ruled the country since the first day of its existence are not normal. The tricks will not work for you in December, Karakachanov said in an interview with...
Balkans 20.11.20 | 08:43

Serbian Patriarch Irinej dies of Covid-19

Patriarch Irinej (Irineos), head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, died of Covid-19. It’s believed that he was infected during the mass funeral of Bishop Amphilohios in Montenegro. Born Miroslav Gavrilovic in 1930, Irinej was named Patriarch in 2010, after the death of his predecessor Patriarch Pavle.
Balkans 18.11.20 | 15:12

Borisov with a message to “brother” Zaev: Bulgaria’s position is not a position of stubbornness because there are issues that our people will not agree on

Today, the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov told his “brother” Zoran Zaev that they will not abandon their positions and that there are issues on which the Bulgarian people will not agree. We have explained to them very carefully how far our compromises can go. For that purpose we...
Balkans 17.11.20 | 13:05

Zakharieva: Macedonia to have a place in the EU when it’s ready

The Bulgarian diplomacy cannot afford to pursue a policy of denigration of another country, which, unfortunately, we see pursued by Skopje. We are a member of the European Union, Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ekaterina Zakharieva, told BNT on Tuesday. The Republic...
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