Category: Balkans
Balkans 21.03.19 | 23:23

Albania opposition holds new rally

Several thousand opposition protesters tried to enter Albania’s parliament building Thursday calling for the government’s resignation and an early election. The rally is part of the center-right Democratic Party-led opposition’s protests over the past month accusing the leftist Socialist Party...
Balkans 21.03.19 | 10:32

Rama sought treatment in Germany after developing heart issues

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama visit to Germany was due for health treatment after he developed heart issues, Albanian media report. According to the reports, Rama was noticeably tired and defocused during an even in the town of Berat, and an exam in a Tirana hospital revealed he is in a pre-cardiac...
Balkans 20.03.19 | 15:17

Radovan Karadzic sentenced to life in prison

The International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague sentenced former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to life in prison, for his role in the brutal civil war. Karadzic was initially sentenced to 40 years in prison, and on appeal from prosecutors, a life sentence was declared. Applause...
Balkans 20.03.19 | 10:52

Serbian protesters who entered a TV station with a chainsaw released from detention

After Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic made a call for forgiveness and reconciliation, the courts reversed detention orders against three detained protesters who entered the public RTS radio – television with a chainsaw. A coalition of opposition nationalist and centrist parties engaged in a...
Balkans 19.03.19 | 14:44

China denies Greek company request over use of ‘Macedonian’

China denied on February 23 a request by a Greek company over the use of term ‘Macedonian’, elaborating that this requires an approval from the neighboring country, Maria Spyraki, spokesperson of Greek opposition party New Democracy, said at the briefing of political commentators on Monday. Without...
Balkans 17.03.19 | 15:57

Vucic: I’m here, at my workplace, I’m not running anywhere

Citizens, I am here, at my workplace, and I am not running anywhere, Serbia’s President, Aleksandar Vucic said after a group of demonstrators has been protesting in front of the presidency building in Belgrade for several hours. What I am fighting for and the principles I stand for are more valuable...
Balkans 17.03.19 | 15:43

Live: Protesters break fence in front of presidency building, Vucic plays chess with Stefanovic inside

Serbia’s president pledged on Sunday to defend the country’s law and order a day after opposition supporters stormed the national TV station protesting what they said is his autocratic rule, AP reported. As Aleksandar Vucic held a news conference in the presidency building in downtown Belgrade, thousands...
Balkans 15.03.19 | 16:27

Erdogan inaugurates Europe’s biggest city hospital

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated Europe’s biggest city hospital in the capital Ankara on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. Erdogan attended the opening ceremony of Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, the world’s third biggest hospital which was constructed in one-go. “As we did in the...
Balkans 11.03.19 | 10:34

Erdogan accuses women’s march of disrespecting Islam

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused a women’s march in central Istanbul on Friday of disrespecting Islam by booing the Islamic call to prayer, Reuters reported. Several thousand women had gathered in central Istanbul on Friday evening for a march to celebrate International Women’s...
Balkans 09.03.19 | 10:23

Istanbul police block Women’s Day march, disperse crowd with tear gas

Police in Istanbul used tear gas to disperse a peaceful crowd of demonstrators who tried to carry out an International Women’s Day march on the city’s pedestrian shopping avenue Istiklal Street on Friday, Turkish media reported. Police earlier in the evening blocked the roads leading to Istiklal...
Balkans 07.03.19 | 13:42

Katrougalos and Melescanu to host breakfast for North Macedonia’s friends in Brussels

Greek and Romanian Foreign Ministers, Georgios Katrougalos and Teodor Melescanu respectively, will host a breakfast for North Macedonia’s friends in Brussels on March 18, also including Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, MIA reports from Athens. The breakfast for North Macedonia’s friends...
Balkans 06.03.19 | 12:28

Albanian opposition urges snap election as protesters rally outside parliament

Albania’s main opposition leader on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Edi Rama to call a snap election over allegations of corruption and vote fraud, as anti-government protesters rallied outside parliament, Reuters reported. They burnt portraits of Rama and threw firecrackers at the building, but the demonstration...
Balkans 05.03.19 | 10:53

Vucic hints at possible progress toward recognizing Kosovo

President Aleksandar Vucic hinted Monday that Serbia may be willing to recognise Kosovo as a sovereign state, but would require something in return from its former province as part of a broader compromise deal, AFP reported. We must first find the compromise, we can not recognise Kosovo without getting...
Balkans 04.03.19 | 13:41

BBC changes report on Macedonian minority following Greek uproar

After a public outcry over a BBC story referring to a Macedonian minority in Greece and a Macedonian language, the British broadcaster added a section to the report on Saturday outlining Greece’s position, Kathimerini reported. The section says that the Greek government officially recognizes only one...
Balkans 02.03.19 | 15:39

Serbia’s President Vucic meets Johnny Depp

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has met Hollywood star Johnny Depp who produces and plays war photographer W. Eugene Smith in the independent drama “Minamata.” The production that started in Japan now continues in Belgrade. Vucic thanked Depp because “he believed in Serbia” and decided...
Balkans 02.03.19 | 10:23

Vucic: They are waiting for a favorable moment to attack northern Kosovo

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Saturday that Pristina’s accusations of vice-president of the Serbian list Milan Radojicic are aimed at weakening the Serbian defense of northern Kosovo. Commenting on the statement made by Kosovo President Hashim Thaci that he expelled Radojicic, Vucic in...
Balkans 02.03.19 | 09:51

Thaci: Partition in Kosovo can only happen over my dead body

The president of Kosovo claims that “partition and territory swap” in Kosovo can only happen “over his dead body.” According to Hashim Thaci, people who talk about this are those who “helped Slobodan Milosevic” and are “friends to Milan Radoicic.” Territory...
Balkans 28.02.19 | 15:13

Croatian man threw his four children off the balcony, one girl badly injured

A disturbed 54 year old man from the Croatian island of Pag shocked the country when he threw his four small children from the balcony of his house. Fortunately all the children survived the ordeal, but a seven year old girl is in surgery with head injuries. I heard cries, came out of the house and saw...
Balkans 27.02.19 | 21:38

Greek protesters and officers injured in incident over the Macedonian name issue

At least four Greek police officers and one civilian were left badly injured in the protests which erupted in the industrial city of Kajlari/Ptolemaida in northern Greece – the area Macedonians refer to as Aegean Macedonia. Greek protesters were marching against the Prespa treaty under which Macedonia...
Balkans 27.02.19 | 11:27

Protests in Tirana escalate, protesters try to enter parliament building

Supporters of Albania’s opposition threw flares and torched a car tire outside the country’s parliament Tuesday in an attempt to block ruling lawmakers entering the building amid calls for the government to quit. The center-right Democratic Party-led opposition claims the leftist government of Prime...
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