Category: Balkans
Balkans 05.02.19 | 12:31

N1 Serbia receives threats: Your building will be the first to blow up

Belgrade-based N1 reporters are branded “traitors” and “anti-Serbs” on social networks and have received threats to their lives, those of their families and a message that their office will be blown up, N1 reported. The threats followed the regime’s hints that N1 “recognised Kosovo’s independence.” The...
Balkans 05.02.19 | 11:35

Vucic: I won’t play with referendum, like they did in Macedonia

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says no solution for Kosovo and Metohija will exist unless a majority of people accept it. Vucic added that at the moment there is no talk about any solutions, because there is no conversation. “I’ve said that a hundred times. I will not play like they did...
Balkans 04.02.19 | 11:16

Mitsotakis: The Macedonia name issue is not over

Greek opposition leader and likely next Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said that the name issue with Macedonia is not over, and that if he has the chance, he will use the right to block Macedonia from joining the European Union. Tsipras gave up our strongest diplomatic weapon and approved that Skopje...
Balkans 03.02.19 | 17:59

Kosovo’s Veseli: Without international support, we risk everything

Chairman of Kosovo’s Assembly Kadri Veseli has ruled out any prospect for dissolution of the government, reiterating that taxes for goods from Serbia and BiH should be cancelled after 120 days. “PM Ramush Haradinaj and I share different stances about tariffs, which I have made it clear publicly,”...
Balkans 01.02.19 | 21:21

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama had a car accident

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama had a car accident at the Gosa area, Albanian media have reported. According to the reports, Rama traveled to Berat when at one point a vehicle blocked the road and caused the accident. No one was injured, and little vehicle damage was caused.
Balkans 01.02.19 | 19:08

Papachristopoulos: Voutsis asked me to postpone my resignation to vote for Macedonia’s accession into NATO

MP Thanassis Papachristopoulos said that the speaker of the House, Nikolaos Voutsis, asked him to postpone his resignation for four to five days. The news comes following a meeting the two men had on Friday, the Greek Reporter reports. In a statement to reporters just after his meeting with Voutsis,...
Balkans 01.02.19 | 17:50

Meat from sick Polish cows ends up in the region, discovered in kebabs

Small quantities of meat from sick cows in Poland ended up in Slovenia, which was delivered via Germany, Slovenian media have reported, and the news was confirmed by Slovenia’s Food Safety Agency. After the affair was revealed, the Agency first informed that Slovenia was not among the 10 EU countries...
Balkans 01.02.19 | 17:24

NSA says military conflict is possible in Balkans this year

The latest report by the US National Intelligence Agency, already discussed in the US Senate, mentions that there might be conflicts this year in the Balkans. According to Sputnik, the Balkans has not been mentioned during the Senate debate, but it is in the report itself. “The Western Balkans...
Balkans 01.02.19 | 10:50

Mitsotakis wants Greek elections to be moved forward to May

Greek opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for early general elections to be held in May, ahead of the regular term in October. His conservative New Democracy has a solid lead ahead of the ruling socialist SYRIZA party, and Mitsotakis proposed that the general elections are moved forward and...
Balkans 31.01.19 | 14:41

Bulgaria hopes to adopt euro by 2022

Bulgaria’s prime minister said Tuesday that his country still aims to adopt the euro by 2022 despite some opposition by some local businesses that fear greater scrutiny of the economy. Speaking at a business forum in the capital, Boyko Borissov said that one of the big benefits of joining the euro...
Balkans 30.01.19 | 21:43

EUROACTIV: Greece to be first to open NATO doors for Macedonia

In a symbolic gesture, the Greek government will most probably be the first country to ratify North Macedonia’s NATO accession protocol, as it aims to do it by 8 February, sources close to the issue told EURACTIV.com. On 28 January, a NATO spokesperson said the date for signing the accession protocol ...
Balkans 30.01.19 | 21:02

Turkey raids target dozens, including pilots, over ties to 2016 coup

Anti-terror police units in Ankara and elsewhere were seeking to detain 73 people, including pilots, over alleged links to the 2016 failed coup, state news agency Anadolu said on Wednesday. The chief public prosecutor’s office in Ankara issued detention warrants for the 63 suspects, including 46 active-duty...
Balkans 30.01.19 | 11:21

After the renaming of Macedonia, Tsipras sees himself as leader of EU’s southern socialist bloc

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tried to portray the forced renaming of Macedonia as a win for “dialogue and European solutions”. Speaking at the summit of Southern EU countries in Cyprus, the Greek Prime Minister painted a dividing line between Europe’s North and South, insisting...
Balkans 29.01.19 | 13:38

Rama: Without US, Kosovo would not be liberated from Belgrade

The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, told Deutche Welle in Berlin that Albania supports any agreement between Belgrade and Pristina which is supported by the United States of America and the European Union, Epora e Re reported. Asked about the pressure of the U.S. on Haradinaj’s government to...
Balkans 28.01.19 | 14:48

Tsipras: The year 2019 will be historic for Greece

The year 2019 will be historic, not only because it symbolises the end of “crisis Greece” but also the start of a new Greece “of the people and the many,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in an article published in the Greek version of the “Economist – The World in 2019” that was distributed...
Balkans 28.01.19 | 11:11

Clashes erupt in Greece amid protests over Prespa deal

A protest against the Prespes Agreement in the Greek city of Thessaloniki resulted in chaos on Sunday, with clashes between demonstrators and police taking place outside Thessaloniki Concert Hall. Protesters confronted the police forces and blockaded roads, halting drivers and yelling “traitors”....
Balkans 27.01.19 | 15:30

Kosovo PM reports Vice Minister killed by ski area avalanche

Kosovo Prime Minister says an avalanche has killed a senior Cabinet official while he was skiing in a southern resort. Ramush Haradinaj wrote on Saturday on Facebook that Deputy Minister of Diaspora Arian Daci was killed and Daci’s friend was injured at the Brezovica resort area, 80 kilometers...
Balkans 25.01.19 | 12:32

Kammenos urges MPs to vote down ‘crime,’ reacts to Zaev-Soros photo

Panos Kammenos, the former Greek defense minister who quit the government coalition over his objection to Greece’s name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), on Thursday urged lawmakers to vote down the so-called Prespes deal which he described as a “crime,” Kathimerini writes. “I...
Balkans 25.01.19 | 11:17

Greek parliament to vote on name change deal with Macedonia

The Greek parliament is expected to vote January 25 on a historic agreement to normalize relations with neighboring Macedonia, RFE/RL reports. As the Greek parliament debated the deal on January 24, demonstrators gathered outside to protest, some of them chanting “traitors.” Police fired tear gas...
Balkans 25.01.19 | 10:17

Tsipras: Ratifying Prespa deal a ‘historic step’

The ratification of the Prespes deal would be a “historic step,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in Parliament Thursday, adding that the long-standing dispute had deprived Greece of precious diplomatic capital, Kathimerini reported. Inertia, cowardice and procrastination resulted in more than...
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