News archive of May 2023

BELGRADE - Ahead of Tuesday's round of the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the meeting would be difficult and that "all big Western players" were against Serbia but that law and justice were on its side and that there was no surrender.

Local residents and businesses on Sifnos are backing a letter recently sent by the municipality to three ministries, calling for a ban on swimming pools, underground buildings, the alteration of the island's architectural heritage and the destruction of paths.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is in a "panic" to prevent far-right parties from contesting the 21 May election, Main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has claimed.

MOSTAR - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met on Tuesday in Mostar with Deputy Chairman of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragan Covic, who also chairs the Croat People Caucus of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as with Chairwoman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Council of Ministers Borjana Kristo.

Brnabic is in Mostar for the city's annual international economic fair.

In recent years, Bulgaria has emerged as a hub for the gaming industry, with a growing number of game studios that are producing high-quality games for a global audience.

The main challenger trying to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this month's presidential election cuts a starkly different figure than the incumbent who has ruled the country for two decades.

Republican People's Party (CHP) leader and Nation Alliance presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on May 2 that he would respect different identities of Türkiye and serve all of them if he is elected at May 14 polls.

A Vienna museum is in talks aimed at lending two marble pieces of the Parthenon to Greece, Austria's foreign minister said on Tuesday, a development his Greek counterpart said he hoped would help in talks with Britain over its much larger hoard.

The leaders of the "We Continue the Change"-"Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB) coalition presented the composition of their project cabinet.

MOSTAR - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic attended the opening of the 24th Mostar International Economic Fair on Tuesday.

Inviting Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the Open Balkan initiative, Brnabic said she hoped development of relations within the region would be continued.