Category: Balkans
Balkans 15.11.20 | 11:55

Zakharieva: Macedonia is not ready for EU accession talks

Macedonia is not ready to meet the conditions to start EU accession negotiations, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva told television channel bTV on Sunday. According to her, Macedonia is not fully implementing the neighborhood agreement signed in 2017, the entire state policy is based on...
Balkans 11.11.20 | 13:45

Karakachanov with new provocation: Goce Delcev was a Bulgarian teacher, a Bulgarian officer who died for the Bulgarian people

Goce Delcev was a Bulgarian teacher, a Bulgarian officer who died for the Bulgarian people, and not for some invented one in the laboratories of the Comintern, these are the words of the Bulgarian Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov, who after a meeting with the Macedonian delegation in Sofia,...
Balkans 10.11.20 | 10:47

Zaharieva calls on Dimitrov and Zaev to read the Good Neighborhood Agreement

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is set to meet with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in Sofia, confirmed Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva. She announced that she would propose to the two prime ministers to convene the Intergovernmental Commission for the Implementation of the...
Balkans 09.11.20 | 18:08

Hashim Thaci pleads not guilty

Kosovan President and former warlord Hashim Thaci pled not guilty on the war crimes charge put forward by a special tribunal in the Hague. Thaci is charged with unlawful detention and killing of almost 100 people, Serbs and other non-Albanians as well as Albanians, in the run up to and during the 1999...
Balkans 09.11.20 | 10:04

Greece extends travel ban with Macedonia until November 30

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 November 30. Tourists and foreign nationals who are allowed to travel there can enter Greece by crossing the Promachonas border with Bulgaria after...
Balkans 06.11.20 | 15:33

Thaci is charged with nearly 100 counts of murder

The tribunal investigating war crimes perpetrated by the Kosovo Albanian UCK guerrilla movement is prosecuting the country’s President and former chief UCK commander Hashim Thaci for 98 counts of murder. Thaci is going to have his first appearance before the judges on Monday. Charges are also raised...
Balkans 05.11.20 | 17:00

Greece goes into three-week coronavirus lockdown

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that he has ordered a three-week nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus epidemic. The measure, which goes into effect on Saturday, is a reaction to an “aggressive” spike in infections, he said in a nationwide broadcast. During the lockdown,...
Balkans 01.11.20 | 22:21

Independent MOC means declaring war on SOC, said Amfilohije

Metropolitan Amfilohije, the senior Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) bishop in Montenegro, who was buried today, was considered a great opponent of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC). He has repeatedly said that some kind of Macedonian church is a danger to the Balkans and the Orthodox world and that...
Balkans 31.10.20 | 20:01

Macedonia should recognize that both its national identity and language have Bulgarian roots if it wants to start negotiations with the EU

Macedonia should recognize that both its national identity and language have Bulgarian roots if it wants to start negotiations with the EU, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said in an interview with Reuters. Bulgaria could veto the formal launch of accession talks with Macedonia next month...
Balkans 25.10.20 | 20:27

Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov contracted the coronavirus

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov informed the public that he has contracted the coronavirus. He informed the public that he has overall weakness and will continue to work from home. Borisov added that there is no need to have a Deputy Prime Minister replace him. His illness could affect the tense...
Balkans 16.10.20 | 14:40

Slovenia imposes partial lockdown to combat coronavirus spread

Slovenia on Friday began enforcing a partial lockdown in an effort to curb an explosion in new coronavirus infections, Sta news agency reported. Across the country, gatherings have been limited to 10 people and no more than six people can commute to work together in a group. Older school pupils will...
Balkans 13.10.20 | 12:33

Greek border remains closed for Macedonian nationals

Greece has extended the air, sea and land travel ban for third-country nationals until October 25, 2020, MIA’s Athens correspondent reported Tuesday. Regarding the land borders, the restrictions, “for preventive reasons to protect public health from further spread of Covid-19 on Greek territory”...
Balkans 12.10.20 | 17:27

The Council of Europe calls on Bulgaria to enter into dialogue with the Macedonian minority

Bulgaria has made progress in the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities through advancing non-discrimination legislation, promoting education for Roma children and supporting religious rights, the Council of Europe’s advisory committee said in a report. ...
Balkans 12.10.20 | 12:34

Croatian officer injured in an attack in front of the Government building

A Croatian police officer was badly injured after an attacker opened fire in front of the building of the Croatian Government, at the historic St. Marc square in Zagreb. The attacker committed suicide after firing on the officer. He was using an automatic rifle, likely an AK-47. He had posted a brief...
Balkans 02.10.20 | 15:41

Rama: Albania, Kosovo ambition is to remove the border

Albanian prime minister, Edi Rama, during today’s meeting of Kosovo and Albania governments taking place in Tirana, said the ambition of both countries is removing the border, Gazeta Express reports. If we refer the meeting of our cabinets held in Peja [Kosovo] all the documents are being implemented...
Balkans 30.09.20 | 12:15

Most shops in Slovenia to be closed on Sundays, holidays

Shops in Slovenia will be closed on Sundays and national holidays after a law which parliament adopted on Tuesday goes into force in a fortnight. Besides those from the ruling coalition, the law was supported by many opposition MPs. Seventy-two MPs voted for and 13 against. The law says that shops smaller...
Balkans 21.09.20 | 15:33

Greece to police Macedonia’s airspace with F-16 fighter jets and for 35,000 euros a year

Memorandum for speeding up Macedonia’s integration process in the EU; Memorandum for establishment of the Coordination Committee for Economic Cooperation and Technical Agreement for the supervision of FIR Skopje, are the three signed memoranda between Macedonia and Greece stemming from the Prespa...
Balkans 17.09.20 | 12:20

Bulgaria and Borissov have passed the point of no return

Boyko Borissov, the populist leader of Bulgaria, is facing a popular revolt that will not go away. For more than two months now, thousands of Bulgarians have taken to the streets of Sofia to demand his resignation. They are decrying the government’s failure to address rampant corruption, the influence...
Balkans 16.09.20 | 15:45

Greece extends entry ban until September 30

Greece until September 30 has extended the ban for entry of internationals outside the European Union, including Macedonia, Albania and Turkey, MIA reports from Athens. Limitations at land borders due to ‘preventative reasons to protect public health from the spread of COVID-19 in Greece’, involve...
Balkans 16.09.20 | 13:45

Zaev had dinner with Tsipras in Athens

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who is paying a two-day working visit to Greece, on Tuesday night had dinner with Greece’s ex-PM Alexis Tsipras and France’s ex-President Francois Hollande. Writing on Facebook, Zaev said they agreed that ‘this is a time when alongside the national interests of every...
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