News archive of June 2017

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic on Tuesday expressed the expectation the EU would keep its door open to accession as that would help ease instability and tensions in the Belkans, and added that the next Serbian government would maintain political goals such as building a modern society and Serbia's EU path, regional peace and stability and reforms.

U.S. President Donald Trump strongly defended his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord on June 29, declaring himself "proud" of the move.

"In order to protect American jobs, companies and workers, we've withdrawn the United States from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord," Trump said to applause, during a speech on the future of the US energy sector.

Canadian company Gabriel Resources filed a second lawsuit against Romania on Friday seeking $4.4 billion in alleged losses over its stalled Rosia Montana gold and silver project, which the government refused to approve following protests by environmentalists.

Two smaller companies belonging to Gabriel Resources group filed a similar lawsuit in July 2015 at the same court.

Code orange for potentially dangerous high temperatures is in force for 21 districts in Bulgaria for 30th of June.

China urged the United States to revoke immediately its "wrong decision" to sell Taiwan $1.42 billion worth of arms, saying it contradicted a "consensus" President Xi Jinping reached with his counterpart, Donald Trump, in talks in April in Florida.

Angel Mitev, who until now led the state-owned company "Restoration", took over the post of Executive Director of the National Palace of Culture after the withdrawal of Miroslav Borshosh from the position, Minister of Culture Boil Banov announced at a special press conference, according to bTV. 

Three former executives at the operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant went on trial June 30, the only people ever to face a criminal court in connection with the 2011 meltdowns that left swathes of countryside uninhabitable.

A former CIA agent who was found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian imam by an Italian court more than a decade ago said on June 29 she intended to return to Italy to face her sentence, but hopes to avoid prison.

The German government on June 30 said it would welcome President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as an important guest during the meeting of G20 leading economies in Hamburg from July 7 to 8, despite Berlin's fresh decision to bar other public events by Erdoğan.

The German government said it would welcome President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as an important guest during the meeting of G20 leading economies in Hamburg from July 7-8, despite Berlin's  decision on June 30 to bar other public events by Erdoğan.