News tagged with 'balkan'. Found 5 tagged news.

Greece rejects Macedonian minority claim

Athens :: Greece | 4 months ago

Clive Leviev-Sawyer Greek prime minister Costas Karamanlis will reply later this week to a letter from his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski that asked for the recognition of a Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the return of property to...

Tags: Nikola Gruevskithat Greece, refugees, refugee, balkan, Macedonian, Costas Karamanlis, macedonians minority, civil war, northern greece, prime minister

SERBIA: Socialists Switch to the Future

Belgrade :: Serbia | 4 months ago

Two months after the May 11 elections dubbed as "crucial" for country's future, Serbia has now a pro-European coalition government made of former arch-enemies -- the Democrats of President Boris Tadic and the Socialists of late leader Slobodan Milosevic...

Tags: Serbian Parliament, European Union, Mirko Cvetkovic, Slobodan Milosevic, minister mirko, Balkan, controlled media, president boris, East Ethnia, Kosovo

Remnants of ethnic cleansing policies within Balkan States continue to perpetuate refugee woes

Belgrade :: Serbia | 5 months ago

Posted by amymiller

International Refugee Day is today, June 20th and once again Serbia tops the chart of having the highest refugees within Europe. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees 2007 Global Report states that there are approximately 97’000 refugees...

Tags: Refugee, Serbia, Europe, United Nations, UNHCR, displaced, Croatia, Balkan, discrimination, amnesty, ustasha, Nazi, asylum seeker, EU, Refugees

Bush plans to visit Croatia on April 4-5

Zagreb :: Croatia | 8 months ago

Issue : 775 US President George W Bush will meet with Croatia�s Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and address the nation during his visit April 4-5 to the Balkan country, the Foreign Ministry told Javno...Bush�s visit was a confirmation of Croatia as

Tags: Croatia, George W Bush, Bushï, Balkan

Bulgaria urges Serbia to take moderate stance on Kosovo

Priština :: Kosovo | 9 months ago

Spasena Baramova Photo: Velko Angelov Unless the Serbian government reacted with moderation on the Kosovo issue, it risked to find itself in international isolation, Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev told Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremić

Tags: kosovo, serbia, Kosovo Serbs, Serbian, albanian, foreign minister, cia, Vuk Jeremic, kosovo partition, kosovo declaration, Balkan, declaration independence, minister vuk