Vucic enjoys 56% popular support

Belgrade, July 31, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Milos Mitrovic Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian Prime Minister, is still the most popular politician in the country; if elections were held tomorrow, Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) would gain 51 percents of the vote, according to the results of the latest poll organized by Faktor plus agency. […]
Read More →Genocide resolution hostile to Serbia

Belgrade, July 31, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Milos Mitrovic If Kosovo’s parliament adopts the “genocide” resolution, dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina would be impeded, while previous achievements on the basis of the Brussels agreement would be put into question, head of Serbian Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said today. Djuric added […]
Read More →Serbs do not object Kosovo’s Army in principle, Serb official says

Pristina, 31 July 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Elton Tota Minister for Communities and Return, Dalibor Jevtic said that the Serb List is against the Armed Forces of Kosovo for the moment. But according to him, they must sit down with the coalition partners and clarify things. Asked if Serbs are categorically against the creation […]
Read More →Albanian opposition demands a drug test for senior officials

Tirana, 31 July 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency In Albania, the opposition presented on Friday the platform for the decriminalization of Parliament, local government and other institutions of the administration. According to it, this platform is based on the Venice Commission report and the best and the strongest Euro American models. The head of the Parliamentary […]
Read More →Special Tribunal will give way to the integration

Pristina, 31 July 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Elton Tota Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, said after the government meeting today that the creation of the Special Tribunal will be in the best interest of the country. Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said that these amendments are being reprocessed in order to […]
Read More →Bulgarian Parliament passes bill to implement EU bank recovery directive

Sofia, July 31, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Clive Leviev-Sawyer of The Sofia Globe Bulgarian MPs have passed at second reading a bill implementing the provisions of EU’s the bank recovery and resolution directive, two months after the European Commission gave Sofia a forceful reminder on the topic by stepping up infringement proceedings for […]
Read More →Kosovo’s government reprocesses the amendments for the Special Tribunal

Pristina, 31 July 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Elton Tota In today’s meeting, Kosovo’s government examined and reprocessed the constitutional amendments which relate to the creation of the Special Tribunal. Kosovo’s PM, Isa Mustafa declared that the approval of these constitutional amendments by parliament, is an important step for the Republic of Kosovo in the […]
Read More →Syriza to hold extraordinary party congress in September

Athens, July 31, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Zacharias Petrou The central committee of Greece’s ruling left-wing party, Syriza, held an emergency meeting on Thursday to address a growing rift within the party over whether a third international bailout should be agreed or not. Addressing the 200 members of the central committee (the body […]
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