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Djukanovic: Sanctions against Russia are wrong

PODGORICA, By Adnan Prekic (balkaneu.com) 28.Nov.2014 – Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine are “the wrong way to go. Economies of both...

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Serbian PM at UNSC: Serbs in Kosovo live in ghettos

NEW YORK,  05.Dec.2014- Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has told UN Security Council that the basic premises for normal life have not been established in Kosovo to this day, but stressed...

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Pusic Replaces Croatia PM at Belgrade China-Eastern Europe Summit

ZAGREB, 12.Dec. 2014 – After the Prime Minister declined to go, Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic is going to Belgrade next week to meet Central and Eastern European leaders, as well as China’s...

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Serbia :Protest sent to Albania over display of expansionist map

BELGRADE, 11.Jan. 2015 – Serbian FM Ivica Dacic stated Serbia has sent a protest note to Albania because a map showing “Greater Albania” appeared on the residence of the country’s prime minister Edi...

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Iceland withdraws EU membership candidature

REYKJAVIK , 12.Mar. 2015 – Iceland’s authorities announced that the country’s bid to join the EU as a member had been withdrawn. The decision was made two years after a eurosceptic coalition came to...

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Albania “promised there’s be no change of borders”

PRAGUE, 11. Apr. 2015- Albanian officials stressed they have no ambition to change border in the Balkans, after the strong reactions of the Serbian top officials and a protest note sent to Tirana over...

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Eight Macedonian policemen and 14 Albanian paramilitaries killed in clash

SKOPJE, 10.May 2015 – Eight Macedonian policemen and 14 members of an Albanian armed paramilitary group have been killed in fighting in a northern Macedonian town, authorities said. Interior Ministry...

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Rama met Vucic:”Albania, Serbia key to peace in the region”

TIRANA, 27. MAY 2015 – Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama met Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Tirana and stated that “the two countries are key to peace in the region”. Vucic said has said...

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Serbia and RS establish remembrance day for Serb victims

BELGRADE, 26. June 2015 – The governments of Serbia and the Serb entity in Bosnia, the Serb Republic (RS), have declared August 5 Day of Remembrance for the expelled and killed Serbs. The decision was...

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Italy to receive most EU funding for migrant crisis

BRUSSELS, 10 Aug 2015 (EurActiv.com) – The European Commission today approved €2.4 of aid over six years for countries including Greece, mostly via Macedonia and Serbia, and Italy that have struggled...

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PM Rama:Albanian justice is the most degenerated one in Europe

TIRANA, 05. OCT. 2015 – Albanian justice becomes once again a target of the state attacks. PM Edi Rama and the Minister of Interior, Saimir Tahiri, have each used two activities today to attack...

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Serbia and Bosnia strengthen economic cooperation

SARAJEVO, 04. NOV. 2015 – The Bosnian Council of Ministers and the Serbian government held a joint session in Sarajevo and agreed to strengthen cooperation and undertake joint activities in the...

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OSCE chairperson calls for joint approach to terrorism, and migration

BRUSSELS, 17. NOV. 2015 – Whether it be terrorism or mass migration, we should all be aware no country is able to overcome these challenges alone stated Serbia’s foreign minister and OSCE...

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Islamist Radicalisation Poses Challenge for Albania

TIRANA, 10. DEC. 2015, by Vladimir Karaj*** – Is a long tradition of religious coexistence at risk from the rise of a strain of Islam openly hostile to other faiths? The tradition of coexistence faces...

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Census Results Highlight Impact of Bosnian War

SARAJEVO, 02. JULY 2016 – The newly-announced results of Bosnia’s 2013 census highlight a dramatic overall fall in the population, as well as drastic changes in the ethnic composition of major cities....

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Serbian Minister warns on “ressugence of fascism in Croatia”

BELGRADE, 01. AUG. 2016 – Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic warned that the inauguration of a monument to Nazi Ustasha terrorist Miro Baresic smacked of “a resurgence of fascism in Croatia.”...

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Geopolitical Monitor :Europe the Orphan

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2016, By Tomislav Jakić (Geopolitical Monitor) – After Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections (which was, by the way, a surprise only to those indoctrinated,...

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NATO has “serious concerns” regarding “Kosovo army” plans

BRUSSELS, 08. MARCH 2017 – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he has “serious concerns” regarding the proposal to form an army in Kosovo..”Today , I have spoken to Hashim Thaci and Isa...

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Macedonian President:”Tirana Platform means subordination to another country”...

SKOPJE, 08. MARCH 2017 – Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov has sent a letter to EU member-states, NATO and the country’s “strategic partners – the US and Turkey,” warning that the platform of the...

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Western states advise Pristina against “unilateral actions”, but support...

PRISTINA, 15. MARCH 2017 – Representatives of “the Quint”-Western most important states in Kosovo have called on Kosovo authorities not to take unilateral actions regarding the establishment of an...

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