Authorities in Kosovo said that the lifeless body of one of two police officers who have gone missing since the night of April 28, has been found. According to the authorities, the body of the police officer was found on Thursday around five kilometers from the place of the accident. On 28 April, two police …
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A working dinner was held ahead of the quadrilateral meeting of foreign ministers of Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and Albania in Thessaloniki on Friday. The dinner was hosted by Greek FM Nikos Kotzias, also including counterparts Nikola Dimitrov of Macedonia, Ekaterina Zaharieva of Bulgaria and Ditmir Bushati of Albania. The foreign ministers will be joined by the countries’ …
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On Wednesday May 2, the European Union announced that due the belief that the bloc needs to become more resilient in order to handle the Russian threat (which, one understands, is present and concerns European officials deeply), there are plans for the financial boosting of the EU’s long-term defence budget. As euractiv.com reads, “After decades of …
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“During the meetings that I’ve had with different representatives of the international community, I’ve heard the option for the division of Kosovo being mentioned to me.” This was said today by the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj during today’s parliamentary debates. Haradinaj spoke about the talks with Serbia at a time when these talks …
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Ten people were injured after a bonfire lit as part of celebrations for a Jewish holiday in north London exploded into a fireball. Paramedics were called to a Lag BaOmer event in Stamford Hill on Wednesday evening, treating several people for minor burns after the blast on a residential street. Video of the incident circulated online shows a large …
Venice has installed temporary gates at the ends of two bridges to keep tourists out if their numbers become overwhelming. The measure has been brought in by the lagoon city for the four-day holiday weekend that finishes on 1 May. There are also various diversions in place to prevent the city from being overwhelmed during …
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion (dollars),” Trump said at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan. “We come up again on September 28th and …
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North Korea’s nuclear test site will shut in May and reveal the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, South Korea’s presidential office has said. On Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed “complete denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula in the first inter-Korean summit in more than …
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Great progress made in negotiations We believe that great progress has been made in the negotiations and we hope that this progress can be maintained, but time will tell, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt said, Greek news agency ANA-MPA reports. Pyatt spoke at the event in Thessaloniki before graduated students at American Universities and answering …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump aired differences over trade and NATO on Friday at a White House meeting where they tried to put on a show of warmth and friendship despite tensions between the two allies, Reuters reports. With Trump poised to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium soon that will impact European …
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A new era of peace is beginning, according to a declaration signed by the leaders of North and South Korea after their first meeting in over a decade. Both nations are aiming to completely denuclearize the Korean peninsula. “South and North Korea affirmed their shared objective of achieving a nuclear-free Korean peninsula through complete denuclearization,” reads …
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The municipalities of Skopje and Athens signed Friday an agreement for cooperation. The document was signed by the mayors of the capitals of Macedonia and Greece, Petre Silegov and Georgios Kaminis respectively. “After signing the agreement, Skopje and Athens will start sharing information, experiences, new practices and nourishing cooperation in various spheres of our duties and competences, …
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias briefed Thursday NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg over the course of the name talks, ANA-MPA reports. According to diplomatic sources, Kotzias told Stoltenberg that Greece appreciates the fact that the Alliance has refrained from involvement in the talks. The Kotzias-Stoltenberg meeting took place at the NATO HQ in Brussels, while interlocutors failed to …
Macedonia and Croatia have exceptionally friendly relations and no open issues. Croatia is a great champion of Macedonia’s EU and NATO integration, while open issues with other countries should not stand in the way but solved in parallel with the accession talks, agreed President Gjorge Ivanov and Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic after a …
Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama has started an official visit yesterday in Germany in an attempt to convince the country to provide its support for the opening of negotiations with the European Union. This visit comes a week after the European Commission gave its recommendation for the launch of this process. PM Rama had …
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The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk has arrived today in Tirana. This visit comes as part of a Balkan tour. In a joint press conference, Albanian PM, Edi Rama expressed his gratitude for the positive recommendation to start accession talks. “I would like to thank the president of the EU Council for this …
Brussels may threaten social media companies with regulation unless they move urgently to tackle fake news and Cambridge Analytica-style use of personal data before the European elections in 2019. The EU security commissioner, Julian King, said “short-term, concrete” plans needed to be in place before the elections, when voters in 27 EU member states will …
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Police have identified the suspect in a deadly van attack in Toronto as Alek Minassian, a 25-year-old man from Richmond Hill, Ont., a suburb north of the city. Ten people were killed and 15 injured on Monday afternoon after a rented white Ryder van jumped a curb and plowed into pedestrians along an approximately one-kilometre-long stretch of Toronto’s busy Yonge Street. Minassian …
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Prime minister Ana Brnabic said that she was “very sorry” because Defence minister Aleskandar Vulin was declared persona non grata in Croatia. Zagreb made the decision during the weekend, after Vulin, in a provocative statement of his said that he could visit Croatia only if the “commander-in-chief” orders him to do so. Allegedly, Vulin planned to visit a …
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“The name agreement should be complete and final, differentiating the neighboring country from Macedonia”, says New Democracy shadow foreign minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos. “The government is called to reach an agreement that is complete and final. One that differentiates, in a clear way, our northern neighbor from Macedonia. This is not feasible, Koumoutsakos told newspaper Real …
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