Sofia.
The Council
of Ministers allocated BGN 1 million to finance the implementation in 2023 of a
programme to support the organizations of the Bulgarian communities in Albania,
Serbia, Kosovo, Ukraine and Moldova and of citizens of the Republic of North
Macedonia with Bulgarian self-awareness, the government information service
said.
A court in the UK on September 26 formally charged five Bulgarian citizens
with espionage. Orlin Rusev, Biser Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova
and Ivan Stoyanov did not appear in court in person.
Democratic Union of the Greek Ethnic Minority, OMONIA, has denounced what
it considers violations of minority rights by census enumerators in the first
week of the population and housing census.
Sept 24, 2023.
Sofia.
Bulgaria will include January 1, 2025 in an official document as a target
date for its euro zone membership, it transpired from a draft decree of the
Council of Ministers amending and supplementing Government Decree No. 168 of
July 2015 on the establishment of a Coordination Council for the preparation of
the Republic of Bulgaria for euro zone membership.
Sept 23,
2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Former FBI official Charles McGonigal confessed to his guilt on Friday for
accepting 225,000 US dollars from Albanian-American Agron Nezaj, who, as per
court documents, had become an informant for the FBI’s investigation into
McGonigal’s contacts and activities in Albania.
Sofia/Blagoevgad - Southwest Bulgaria
The helicopter, which was reported missing earlier on Friday, was found
with the dead pilot's body in a remote ravine a couple of kilometres from the
village of Garmen (Southwest Bulgaria), the Interior Ministry said Friday
evening. A medical team is headed towards the scene.
Brussels.
Serbia,
Bulgaria, and other countries in the region have media that openly favor in
Russian side in its aggression against Ukraine and deliberately release
disinformation on this conflict, while at the same time, they get funding from
the West for their operations, it was said during the discussion organized in
Brussels on Tuesday, organized by Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI).
Sofia.
A Lebanese
school in Sofia started the new school year with nearly 500 pupils. It is
celebrating the 25th anniversary of its founding and is now in a new building
that will house only students from the school, which is named after
Lebanese-American writer and poet Gibran Khalil Gibran, the organizers
said.
Sept 18, 2023. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
Tirana.
The Special
Appeals Court for Corruption and Organized Crime has ruled to keep Fredi
Beleri, the elected mayor of Himara, in prison. Beleri was arrested two days
before the May 14 elections on charges of vote-buying.
Bulgaria stands fully behind the European future of Albania, which is an
important factor for the security and stability not only of the region, but of
the whole of Europe, Bulgaria’s Vice President Iliana Iotova said during her
visit to Tirana on September 15.
Lake
Prespa, one of Europe's oldest lakes and home to more than 2,000 species of
fish, birds, mammals, and plants, is rapidly receding. The locals, who depend
on the lake for their livelihoods, fear what's to come.
Sept 14,
2023. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
Thessaloniki.
"Bulgaria and Greece form a strategic axis of stability which provides stability and perspectives for sustainable development and growth for the entire region," President Rumen Radev said in an interview for Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA).
Sept 10, 2023. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
China’s Zijin Mining has confirmed its intention to invest an additional
$3.8bn in Serbia, according to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed
between the company and the Serbian government.
Could Kosovo convince non-recognizers within the European Union to recognize it as an independent state?
A school
named “Macedonia”, which has 24 classrooms named after North Macedonian cities, will
start taking pupils on September 11, 2023, in Malatya, Turkey.
The
Political Assembly of the EPP in the European Parliament, which is being held
these days in Brussels, approved a resolution presented by the New Democracy
where it requests from the Albanian authorities the permission for Fredi
Beleri, elected mayor of Himara, to swear in.
Hashim
Thaçi has temporarily left the prison cell in The Hague to go to Kosovo.
September
3, 2023. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
The
reburial of Qazim Mulleti, an official who served the Italian and German
occupation, has angered left-wing activists after Mulleti received praise from
others, who believe his story has another side to it.
The Foreign
Minister of Greece, Giorgos Gerapetritis, has called the extension of detention
for Fredi Beleri a clear violation of the presumption of innocence, which is
preventing him to swear as the mayor of Himarë.
The ‘Pari.mk’
website, in cooperation with the ‘BusinessNetwork.mk’ platform, made an
analysis: How much the mineral wealth and mineral resources brought turnover
and profit to the companies from this sector.