News archive of October 2017

BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini met with Kosovo FM Bedzet Pacoli on Friday during his first-ever visit to Brussels to discuss the EU integration agenda of Kosovo, visa liberalisation and the EU-facilitated dialogue with Belgrade.

MOSCOW - No decision has as yet been made on diplomatic immunity for the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Centre in Nis, Serbian First Deputy PM/FM Ivica Dacic said in Moscow Friday, noting Serbia was under great pressure over the issue but that it would decide in line with its own interests.

The European Commission (EC) claims that the cases of Spain's province of Catalonia and Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija are "not comparable."

The reason: Spain is an EU member, Tanjug is reporting on Monday.

Public schools, administrative and technical services in the municipality of Athens will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday October 3 due to the holiday of of the city patron Saint Dionysius the Areopagite.

The decision of the Supreme Administrative Court is final and is not subject to appeal The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) completely annulled the decision of the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) to fine Walmark Bulgaria for misleading advertising of the product Proinsi Rapid + , filed by their competitor in mid-2015. ZonaFarm Ltd.

The international community should stop using force to keep Bosnia and Herzegovina artificially alive and allows its peoples self-determination, Heinz-Christina Strache, a leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria, FPO, said in an interview.

The European Commission (EC) claims that the cases of Spain's province of Catalonia and Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija are "not comparable."

The reason: Spain is an EU member, Tanjug is reporting on Monday.

Christmas and New Year are coming far too early in the Serbian capital - at least as far as decorations are concerned - locals are compaining.

Many have reacted with mockery after the authorities in Belgrade decided to decorate the city centre on September 29 - a whole three months before the year runs out.

At least 50 people have been killed and another 200 have been wounded in a mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert, reported BBC. 

A gunman, named as 64-year-old local resident Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival.

He was shot dead by officers in the hotel where a number of guns were found.

Turkish authorities have apprehended over the past week a total of 4,687 migrants and refugees who were trying to cross the borders with the European Union or enter the country illegally, the Turkish interior ministry said Monday.

The number includes 444 people who were intercepted at sea, the ministry explained.