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Balkan armies promise greater co-operation in catastrophes
Balkan armies promise greater co-operation in catastrophes
Macedonia Gives Nod to Constitutional Changes
Macedonia's ruling parties have gained the approval they need to enact changes to the constitution after 82 of the 123 MPs approved the changes, which is more than the two-thirds majority needed.
Six legislators from the opposition Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, voted against while one legislator abstained.
Macedonia PM Makes New Push For Census
Macedonia's main ruling party, VMRO DPMNE, says Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has launched a new initiative to end the years-long stalemate over a national headcount.
Nikolic takes part in meeting of SEE heads of state
DUBROVNIK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic is taking part in an annual meeting of the heads of state of South-East Europe (SEE), which welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a guest, in Dubrovnik on Tuesday.
Macedonia’s Albanian Opposition Demands Ethnic Rights Boost
The Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, said it will file amendments to the proposed constitutional changes in a bid to ensure greater use of the Albanian language and national symbols in the country.
The DPA said it would make its case at the start of the parliamentary session on government’s constitutional changes on Tuesday.
Nikolic meets regional leaders in Cavtat and Dubrovnik
DUBROVNIK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will attend a meeting of business leaders of southeastern Europe entitled Summit 100 in Cavtat on Monday and a meeting of regional leaders, participants of the Brdo-Brioni process in Dubrovnik on Tuesday.
Victoria Nuland to visit Serbia on Sunday
BELGRADE - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland will visit Serbia on Sunday, and the main topics of her talks with Serbia's officials will be the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and the implementation of the Brussels accord.
Nuland will talk with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade on Suday, the president's press service announced.
Dacic takes part in informal ministerial meeting in Kotor
KOTOR, BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, took part on Thursday in an Informal meeting of the Western Balkans Foreign Ministers in Kotor, Montenegro, in which improvement in cooperation and development of the region were the main topics.
Cooperation with Montenegro in context of EU accession
BELGRADE - The Serbian government adopted at its Thursday session the bill to ratify the agreement on cooperation signed by the Serbian government and the government of Montenegro in the context of EU accession.
Macedonia Braces for Rival Ethnic Protests
Police spokesperson Ivo Kotevski said that officers were “closely monitoring social networks” ahead of the possible unauthorised protests on Friday and warned that “violent outbursts cannot be tolerated”.
Macedonia hopes for calm after days of protests, riots
Macedonia hopes for calm after days of protests, riots
Dacic to attend foreign ministers' meeting in Kotor
BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will participate in the Informal meeting of the Western Balkans Foreign Ministers in Kotor, Montenegro, on Thursday.
Retrial Demanded in Macedonia Mass Murder Case
Ali Ahmeti, the head of the junior party in Macedonia's ruling coalition, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, demanded on Tuesday a transparent retrial and a public presentation of the evidence that led to the conviction of six ethnic Albanians for terrorism - a verdict that sparked unrest on the streets of the capital last week.
Ethnic Albanians stage protests in Macedonia
SKOPJE – Ethnic Albanians in Macedonia have been protesting for a few days demanding the release of six members of the Albanian community in the country sentenced to a life in prison.
The six Albanians were sentenced to life for a brutal murder of five Macedonians in Smilkovci, near Skopje, in 2012.
Construction of Kosovo-Macedonia highway starts
PRISTINA - A groundbreaking ceremony held Thursday in the village of Ugljare, situated between the municipalities of Kosovo Polje and Gracanica, marked the beginning of construction of the Pristina-Djeneral Jankovic-Skopje highway.