Category: Balkans
Balkans 23.10.19 | 18:24

Albanian police claims it prevented an Iranian planned terror attack

Albanian police informed today that the country narrowly avoided a well planned terrorist attack that was supposed to occur on Nowruz, the Persian New Year. The attack, according to the Interior Ministry, was planned by Iran, and its notorious Quds force. Police chief Ardi Veliaj gave out the names of...
Balkans 23.10.19 | 10:44

Kathimerini: Skopje not obliged to call itself North Macedonia at home

The Greek daily Kathimerini, in an authorial comment, points out that the blockade on the start of EU accession negotiations with Macedonia threatens the erga omnia aspect of the Prespa Agreement regarding the use of the northern neighbor’s name. The provision included in the Prespes agreement...
Balkans 18.10.19 | 14:06

Rama rules out early elections in Albania

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who along with Zoran Zaev was the main loser at the European Council, ruled out allowing early general elections following his failure to open EU accession talks. Like in Macedonia, politicians in Albania are also calling on Rama to resign and allow early elections....
Balkans 17.10.19 | 15:43

Greek leftist radicals invade Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki

Greek police arrested at least 10 people on Thursday for invading the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki in protest at Ankara’s incursion in Syria, the APA-MPE agency reported. The group presented themselves as visitors to the Mustafa Kemal Ataturk museum on the consulate grounds. A First World War...
Balkans 17.10.19 | 12:35

Fajon: Macron, wake up!

European Parliament rapporteur for Kosovo Tanja Fajon criticized France’s decision to block the start of negotiations with Macedonia and Albania, urging Emmanuel Macron to show political maturity and responsibility. It’s such a shame. Emmanuel Macron, wake up! It’s time for EU to show political...
Balkans 15.10.19 | 20:46

Avramopoulos warns that the fighting in Syria could cause another migrant wave

European Commissioner in charge of migration Dimitris Avramopoulos warned that the renewed fighting in Syria can cause a massive migration wave toward Greece. Avramopoulos discussed the Turkish operation in north Syria and said that it can dislodge thousands of Syrians to flee into Turkey. He blamed...
Balkans 15.10.19 | 16:33

Rama: The sun will rise again tomorrow

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was stoical in face of the likely loss of the expected date to open EU accession talks in October. The sun will rise again and our efforts will continue, Rama said today. Albania, which is in a de-facto group with Macedonia, is seen as the weaker of the two candidates....
Balkans 10.10.19 | 17:11

V4: Romanian Government falls

The Romanian parliament passed a motion of no-confidence in the Dancila government on Thursday on the initiative of the opposition, with 238 votes in favour – ousting the government. President Klaus Iohannis will now hold consultations with all parliamentary parties to decide who can form the next...
Balkans 09.10.19 | 15:36

V4: Soros’s ally may lead Kosovo

“He is a politician in favour of Greater Albania endorsed by Soros,” an Albanian portal described Vetevendosje party’s founding president Albin Kurti, known for his radical statements. Vetevendosje (Self-determination) won the elections held over the weekend while only 11.63 percent...
Balkans 09.10.19 | 11:26

Stoltenberg to meet Mitsotakis and Pavlopoulos in Athens

Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg will visit Greece on Thursday to meet with Greek officials, the alliance said in a statement, Kathimerini reported. Stoltenberg will meet with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and hold a press conference with the latter at...
Balkans 08.10.19 | 12:44

Greek Government expects 25.000 migrants to arrive at its exposed islands by the end of the year, V4 reports

If predictions by the Greek Immigration Ministry are to be believed, the refugee centers on the Aegean Islands may experience catastrophic conditions as another 25,000 migrants are set to arrive from Turkey by year-end, the V4 news agency reports. While the holding camps set up on the five most affected...
Balkans 07.10.19 | 17:48

Panagiotopoulos: As regards Prespa Agreement, we respect international law

As regards the Prespa Agreement, we respect international law and demand the same perception from the neighboring country, Greece’s Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos said in an interview with Greek Real News, MIA’s Athens correspondent reports. Panagiotopoulos explains that last week...
Balkans 07.10.19 | 16:59

Kosovo opposition parties win snap election

Kosovo’s most prominent opposition leader promised major change on Monday after his party and another opposition group came in first and second in Kosovo’s snap election, ending the long dominance of President Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party (PDK). The leftist Vetevendosje (Self-determination)...
Balkans 05.10.19 | 12:50

Pompeo announces closer military ties with Greece on Athens trip

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced closer cooperation, especially militarily, with Greece on Saturday after meeting with the country’s prime minister during a trip to Athens. The NATO countries will also strengthen their ties in the energy and economic sectors, Pompeo and Prime Minister Kyriakos...
Balkans 02.10.19 | 18:09

Rama: Parliamentary elections in 2021

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says he is open to dialogue with the opposition about the electoral reform. Rama said in a televised interview that he was ready to sit down at any moment and talk about electoral reform, because time is flying. The Prime Minister declared that “the elections will...
Balkans 02.10.19 | 10:34

Unions bring Greece to a standstill

Greece is blocked with a major strike of its unions that covers public transportation, shipping and the press. Trains, ferries and buses stopped early on Tuesday morning and will not resume operations for 24 hours. Teachers, doctors and nurses are also expected to strike, but only for a few hours. Unions...
Balkans 30.09.19 | 18:24

V4: Final no on Trocsanyi and Plumb

Trocsanyi’s crime was that he helped the government to protect Hungary from migration, Hungary’s Government said after the final decision of the European Parliament’s (EP) legal affairs committee (JURI), rejecting the nomination of Laszlo Trocsanyi as EU Enlargement Commissioner. JURI...
Balkans 30.09.19 | 11:54

Deaths at crowded migrant camp send Greece scrambling for solution

Greek authorities were working Monday to defuse tensions in the Moria migrant camp on Lesbos after two people died in a fire in the overcrowded facility. “Thousands of migrants must be transferred to the mainland as soon as possible,” the mayor of the island’s capital Mytilini, Stratos Kytelis,...
Balkans 28.09.19 | 11:39

Five children among the latest casualties of the Aegean sea route, the victims were Turkish citizens

Five children were among the seven people killed when a small boat capsized near the Greek island of Chios. The people on the boat were Turkish citizens, who were likely trying to reach Greece. One baby died, four children, and two women. A total of 19 people were on the boat which was sailing in relatively...
Balkans 27.09.19 | 18:51

Vucic proposes “Small Schengen” with Macedonia and Albania

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic after visiting New York, speaking of the “Small Schengen” initiative and closer economic co-operation in the Western Balkans through the removal of obstacles, he said that it was not a question of unification, because whenever unification is mentioned,...
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