Category: Balkans
Balkans 24.02.20 | 19:54

Croatia’s coronavirus crisis team introduces new measures

As of Sunday night, Croatia has introduced health checks for people coming from the Veneto and Lombardy regions in Italy in an effort to prevent the coronavirus, and measures for people arriving from China or South Korea are still in force, the Health Ministry’s Crisis Team said on Monday. In more...
Balkans 24.02.20 | 18:43

Brnabic: Little Schengen initiative and infrastructure ties in the region priority projects for Serbia

The Western Balkan region has huge potential that needs to be put to much greater and much better use, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said in London Monday, Tanjug reported. At a regional investment summit organised by the EBRD and attended by the PMs of the six Western Balkan economies, she said the Little...
Balkans 19.02.20 | 11:09

US Balkan envoys appear divided over the issue of border change between Serbia and Kosovo

The two US Balkan envoys sent conflicting messages on the possibility of a territory swap between Kosovo and Serbia. Matthew Palmer, the older State Department Balkan envoy, said that “it is up to the parties to establish the parameters of the dialogue” when asked if the US would approve...
Balkans 17.02.20 | 23:26

EU-led donors pledge 1.15 billion euros for reconstruction in Albania

The European Union and international donors on Monday pledged 1.15 billion euros (1.24 billion dollars) to help Albania’s recovery from a devastating earthquake in November. “Good news for the people of Albania: We’ve surpassed our target for the reconstruction of Albania and reached a total of...
Balkans 14.02.20 | 11:45

V4: Viktor Orban warns that migration pressure may increase on Hungary’s southern border

Migratory pressure on Hungary’s southern border is expected to increase as the weather improves and more and more migrants set out, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday at the crossing point of Roszke on the Hungary-Serbia border, where he inspected the border barrier with Slovakia’s...
Balkans 09.02.20 | 12:29

Test results are negative, no coronavirus in Kosovo

The director of the Kosovo National Institute of Public Health, Naser Ramadani, informed that the test results at the institute showed that the patient suspected to be infected with coronavirus was not infected. Ramadani said that after three tests carried out at the National Institute’s laboratory,...
Balkans 08.02.20 | 22:09

Coronavirus suspected in Kosovo

A patient suspected to be infected with coronavirus has been admitted to the University Clinical Center in Pristina, Koha reports. According to the newspaper, he is at the Infectious Diseases Clinic. Koha states that the competent center from the clinical center should soon hear about this case. Source:...
Balkans 07.02.20 | 22:09

Heavy snowfall cuts off Macedonians living in Gora, urgent measures sought from Albanian authorities

The Macedonian Association “Ilinden” in Tirana is demanding urgent measures from the Albanian government after snow has blocked all roads for Macedonians in Gora. In the reaction, the Association says that snowfall in recent days has completely blocked villages in the area, in northern Albania. As...
Balkans 07.02.20 | 10:23

V4: Migrant caravan heading through Serbia to Hungary

Several hundred migrants have gathered on the Serbian side of the Hungary-Serbia border in a bid to enter Hungary, a Hungarian public television correspondent reports from the border on Thursday afternoon. Migrants have been organising their plans for weeks in closed groups on social media, a news correspondent...
Balkans 05.02.20 | 19:12

14 Serbian citizens are on a cruise ship quarantined in Japan because of coronavirus

There are 14 Serbian citizens aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been quarantined due to coronavirus, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic told Tanjug, Telegraf.rs reported. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has informed us that on board the Diamond Princess, that has been...
Balkans 04.02.20 | 10:54

Greece taking additional measures against new coronavirus

The Greek government is stepping up measures to tackle the possible arrival in the country of the new, or “novel” coronavirus, now called 2019-nCoV, as experts warn that it could reach the country within the next three weeks, Kathimerini reports. After a meeting of the National Council of Public...
Balkans 03.02.20 | 10:06

Blerim Reka is Kosovo’s new minister of European integration

Party leaders winning the snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo, Albin Kurti of the Vetevendosje (VV) and Isa Mustafa of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), said on Sunday that the two parties they had reached a coalition agreement, MIA’s correspondent in Pristina reported. The deal comes...
Balkans 31.01.20 | 14:57

Orban blames Soros for the attempt to push migrants through the Hungarian border

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused the left wing US billionaire George Soros of funding the movement of migrants through the Balkans, after the Hungarian border was stormed on Tuesday. About 60 illegals tried to enter Hungary near the Roszke border crossing, but were quickly apprehended. This...
Balkans 31.01.20 | 09:55

Man quarantined in Solun does not have the coronavirus

Greek authorities say that the man who was examined after fears that he may have the coronavirus is not a carrier. The scare occurred in Solun/Thessaliniki, where a 60 year old man with flu symptoms who had recently been to the Chinese city of Wuhan was hospitalized. The man was kept in quarantine, but...
Balkans 30.01.20 | 18:19

Borrell expresses support for having the Balkans join the EU, as the Commission prepares to present its new enlargement methodology

European foreign policy head Josep Borrell, who is on a visit to Kosovo, said that the EU will not be complete until the Balkan countries join. Borrell travels to Serbia tomorrow, where he is supposed to try and advance the talks between the two countries after the recent push by the US diplomacy. And...
Balkans 29.01.20 | 09:44

4.9 Magnitude quake shakes Albania, people in the streets

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake shook Albania on Tuesday, causing people in the capital of Tirana to pour out of their apartments. Preliminary reports said there were no damage or injuries, New York Times reported. The Defense Ministry said the quake at 9:15 p.m. (2015 GMT) was centered 34 kilometers (20...
Balkans 25.01.20 | 13:05

Earthquake in Turkey claims 21 lives, more than 1,000 injured

A magnitude-6.8 earthquake in eastern Turkey has killed at least 21 people and injured 1,030, according to the national disaster agency AFAD. At least 17 people were killed in the city of Elazig and four in neighbouring Malatya, AFAD said. The agency reported 274 aftershocks since the quake hit at...
Balkans 24.01.20 | 22:26

Eight dead, hundreds injured after 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits Turkey

At least eight people have died after an earthquake struck eastern Turkey, officials told local media, NBC News reports. The tremblor, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck at around 8:55 p.m. local time (12:55 p.m. ET) in eastern Elazig province, the country’s emergency management agency...
Balkans 23.01.20 | 10:12

Magnitude 4.5 quake shakes Turkey

Turkey’s capital was rattled by a magnitude 4.5 earthquake early Thursday, the country’s disaster agency reported. The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said in a statement that the quake’s epicenter was 13 kilometers (8 miles) below the surface in Ankara’s Akyurt district. It...
Balkans 22.01.20 | 11:09

Katerina Sakellaropoulou elected as the first woman President of Greece

Greece elected its first woman President. Left wing judge Katerina Sakellaropoulou (62) was voted in the Parliament. She was supported by 266 of 300 members of Parliament, by parties from both the left and the right. She was also the first woman appointed to the Greek Supreme Court in 2018, where she...
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