Balkan News

Gordan Matkun, a professional ice sculptor turned Gradec plateau in Zagreb into an open air art studio as he carved up blocks of ice to create some interesting pieces.

The Romanian parliament adopted a controversial law that will give financial bonuses to mayors and other municipal administrators, putting yet another burden on next year’s budget.

Prime Minister Edi Rama and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu signed an agreement in Jerusalem to work together on terrorism and security issues.

SWP-Berlin und die Deutschen Aussenminister, sind heute eine Art Verbrecher Club, mit Banditen wie dem Barzani Clan, kriminellen im Kosovo, Afrika Schlächter und Motor der Islamischen Terroristen und Welt führend bei der Ausland Bestechung mit möglichst korrupten Clans, welche man finanziert. Ziegenhirten, Apfel Baum Diebe ohne Bildung sind Partner und auf diesem Niveau hat man sich angepasst, wie die jüngsten Vorgänge aufzeigen, mit einem gigantisch aufgeblähten Apparat für Hirnlose und korrupte INkompetenz, welche ebenso im 488 seitigen Bundestags Visa Ausschuss bereits beschrieben wurde. Finanzierung von NGO’s für Homosexuelle gehört zum Standard und zum Mord an Boris Nemzow das Statement von Michael Roth, vollkommen inkompetend in Tradition. Frank Walter Steinmeier verkauft […]

Several hundred people gathered in front of the parliament in Skopje to demand the resignation of health minister Nikola Todorov, many of them wearing masks TodorOFF.

The Dark History of Serbia’s Security Services The quashing of the acquittal of two former security officials has again highlighted how Belgrade’s intelligence agencies have been involved in running assassins and paramilitary killers for decades. Marija Ristic BIRN Belgrade Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at their war crimes trial. Photo: BETA/AP. “Lords of life and death” was one of the descriptions of the wartime units run by former Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, heard during their trial at the UN war crimes court in The Hague. Stanisic, the former head of the Serbian State Security Service and his right-hand man Simatovic, the former head of […]

The daughter of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is currently on trial for war crimes, was elected as National Assembly deputy speaker in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska.

Romanian Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Seize Billionaire’s Assets Jailed agriculture magnate Ioan Niculae, Romania’s richest man, still controls some 50,000 hectares of agricultural land. 21 December 2015 Billionaire Ioan Niculae (pictured), already serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for illegally financing Romania’s Social Democratic Party (PSD) in the 2009 elections, has had assets seized under another criminal investigation.   Romania’s National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) seized $ 2.7 million worth of property owned by InterAgro, a fertilizer and agricultural conglomerate he controlled, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project writes, citing local media.   Romanian prosecutors alleged this week that Niculae has been a party to corruption, tax evasion, buying influence and abetting money […]

Political leaders from Kosovo and Serbia might be talking to each other in Brussels, but the two societies are not communicating at all, a debate in Pristina heard.

Competitors from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina showed off their moves at a freestyle snowboarding tournament entitled ‘From Stairs to Stars’ in the northern city of Novi Sad on Sunday.

In two separate operations, state police arrested suspects accused of smuggling large amounts of weapons and millions of euros from Bosnia and Herzegovina to other countries.

About a thousand people gathered in Skopje on Sunday, to protest against the extremely high levels of air pollution in the capital.

European Parliament vice-president Ulrike Lunacek said Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci was wrong to blame the EU for Kosovo’s failure to secure a visa-free regime because Pristina still has more work to do.

Es geht um Fördergelder, obwohl man nur Kindes Geplapper von Dr Christian Albrecht hört, was nicht bereits mit Millionen vor 15 Jahren gefördert wurde, auch allgemein bekannt, das die einmalig seltenen Fische im See ein UNESCO geschütztes Gebiet ist, was die Albanische Mafia nicht interssiert, welche in Ohris, am West und Süd Ufer enorm viele illegalen Bauten erstellte, mit illegalen Abwasser Einleitungen und es gibt illegale Fischerei, welche keine gesetzlichen Schon Zeiten kennen will. Member of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland und die haben sowieso noch nie etwas zustande gebracht, erhalten nicht einmal Termine bei Ministern, weil man nur für die Eigen PR Randale macht.   ort Appeal News Lake Ohrid: Europe’s […]

The EU should have the courage to tell Macedonia to delay an election for which the country is wholly unprepared.

The removal of judge Vladimir Vucinic from Belgrade’s Special Court was a political move aimed at curbing judicial independence and will set back an important case against interior ministry officers, experts alleged.

Due to recent deaths of patients attributed to poor healthcare standards, Macedonia’s health minister Nikola Todorov faces a no-confidence vote in parliament instigated by the opposition.

Most Romanians have lost interest in marking the December anniversary of the overthrow of the Communist regime, with only small-scale commemorations organised this year.

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