Feb 19, 2024. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
Belgrade, Serbia.
A passenger
jet with 106 people on board returned safely to the Belgrade airport after it
hit runway equipment and sustained severe damage shortly after takeoff from the
Serbian capital, media and airline blogs reported Monday. There were no
injuries.
Serbia
should not be conditioned with its accession in the European Union on the issue
of Pristina, said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó
Feb 15, 2024. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Sofia.
Bulgaria is
among the 18 Nato countries that meet the criterion of allocating 2 per cent of
GDP to defence, Defence Minister Todor Tagarev said on February 15 in Brussels,
where he is participating on a meeting of the alliance’s defence ministers.
The American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has arrived in Tirana. The
plane in which Blinken was traveling landed at the “Mother Teresa” airport at
around 11:12.
Sofia.
Eighteen
migrants from Austria and 14 detained in other EU countries were returned to
Bulgaria today, February 13, under the Dublin Regulation. Some of the migrants
arrived by charter flight.
26 agricultural organisations blocked the square in front of the Council of Ministers in Sofia on February 13. The main demand of the organisers is for the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Kiril Vatev.
Parliament is expected to adopt legal amendments extending the validity of
driving licenses with the “Republic of Macedonia” name until December 31, 2024
in a fast-track procedure at a session on Monday afternoon.
After the talks, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Greek Prime
Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the media.
Feb 11, 2024. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Athens.
The
international relations expert, Ardian Shtuni, was invited this Saturday to a
TV show, where he commented on the reasons for the visit of the American
Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to Albania.
The
President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, addressed the media after addressing the
UN Security Council session.
European Union Ambassador David Geer will hand
over seven EU-funded ambulance vehicles to Skopje Emergency Services on
Wednesday.
For the
second day in a row, protesting farmers blocked key locations across the
country. The roadblocks will be extended by another hour tomorrow.
The general
director of the Insurance Institute, Astrit Hado, has shown in a TV show what
is expected to happen with the pensions of immigrants in the Greek state.
The
inaugural session of the Assembly of Serbia started today at 10 a.m., but the
session ended after a little less than an hour.
In mold and
dampness, cold walls and no hot water, female inmates at the Idrizovo
Penitentiary claim that they have been living in inhumane conditions for two
weeks, the media of Skopje write
The date marks a decision by a Bulgarian communist “People’s Court” on 1st of February, 1945 to sentence to death, without the right to appeal three Regents of the then King of Bulgaria, Simeon II - king's uncle Prince Kiril, prime minister Bogdan Filov, and general Nikola Mihov; 67 MPs and 22
The Constitutional Court of Albania declared a few days ago that, according to its opinion, the agreement between the Prime Ministers of Albania and Italy for the creation of a refugee processing camp in Albania on behalf of the Italian state is in accordance with the Albanian constitution, but the prestigious international organization Human Rights Watch seems to think otherwise.
Skopje.
It is extremely hard for Greece to accept that five years was not enough
time to replace people's passports, Greek diplomatic sources commented on the
issuance of new travel documents in North Macedonia bearing the new name of the
country and added that Skopje had not contacted Athens to ask for any deadline
extensions, MIA's Athens correspondent reports.
Feb 1, 2024. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Skopje.
Attending a forum on Chinese and Russian influence in the Balkans held in the US on Wednesday, North Macedonia’s Deputy Prime Minister in charge of good governance policies, Slavica Grkovska, said that US partnership is key in dealing with malign influences in the Balkan region, Skopje’s government press service reported.