December 23, 2024

Southern Balkans

  • Data Concerns in Serbia over Russian Taxi App

    - Jan 28, 2019
    The office of Serbia’s Information and Personal Data Protection Commissioner says it will look into the operations of Russian taxi-booking service Yandex Taxi after cyber security officials in Lithuania said user data may be compromised by...
  • Greek MPs Approve Historic Macedonia Name Agreement

    - Jan 25, 2019
    Greece’s parliament on Friday backed ratification of the highly controversial agreement that is designed to end the decades-long dispute over Macedonia’s name. In the vote that ended at 14.30 pm local time, 153 MPs from the...
  • Albania, Macedonia, Profit from Kosovo’s Tariff War

    - Jan 24, 2019
    The high import tax that Kosovo has imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia has been good news for exporters from Albania and Macedonia, data show. After Kosovo imposed a tax of 100 per cent on Serbian and Bosnian...
  • Kosovo Military Police Ex-Commander Quizzed About War Crimes

    - Jan 24, 2019
    Nazif Mehmeti, a former commander with the Kosovo Liberation Army’s military police force, was interviewed for two days as a war crimes suspect by the Hague-based Specialist Prosecutor’s Office. Nazif Mehmeti, a former commander of the...
  • Four International Companies Show Interest in Kosovo Telecom

    - Jan 23, 2019
    Four international companies have already indicated their interest in buying the troubled state company Kosovo Telecom, before the actual bidding process has formally opened. “Several international companies have shown interest in the privatisation of Telecom: A1...
  • Bosnia Appoints First Female Chief State Prosecutor

    - Jan 23, 2019
    Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council has elected Gordana Tadic as the new chief state prosecutor, making her the first woman in the country’s history to hold the position. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s judicial overseer,...
  • Moldova’s Remaining Jews Fight to Remember Those Lost

    - Jan 22, 2019
    One day last month, in the main Jewish cemetery in the Moldovan capital Chisinau, a few volunteers busied themselves mowing grass, trimming trees and resetting dilapidated headstones. The work was the initiative of the capital’s dwindling...
  • Kosovo’s EU Visa Liberalisation Hopes Dwindle in 2019

    - Jan 21, 2019
    The challenges that await the European Union in 2019 will likely again delay Kosovo’s hopes of obtaining a visa-free regime, and keep its citizens waiting in long lines at embassies’ doors, experts warn. They add that...
  • Splits Over Serbian Taxes ‘Damages’ Kosovo

    - Jan 21, 2019
    The public disagreements between Kosovo’s President and Prime Minister over the tariffs imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia are undermining the country’s negotiating position, an expert has warned. Disagreements between Kosovo leaders over the 100-per-cent...
  • World’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam

    - Jan 21, 2019
    The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the...
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