At the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., the defense ministers of Albania, Bulgaria, Italy and North Macedonia signed a Letter of Intent for cross-border military mobility cooperation on Wednesday.
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Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias signed a Letter of Intent on Thursday with his Romanian and Bulgarian counterparts for cross-border military mobility cooperation.
Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40C in some places.
The 2023 census in Albania not only showed alarming demographic data but stirred a fresh round of tensions with the Balkan nation’s neighbors.
Two hundred and forty firefighters from Bulgaria, Malta, Moldova and Romania will be deployed in Greece this summer alongside their Greek colleagues as part of a program being implemented for the third straight year via the European Civil Protection Mechanism.
The Prespa Agreement is a political “reality” the new prime minister of North Macedonia Hristijan Mickoski said during a press conference in Skopje on Monday. The agreement is “part of the constitutional and legal order,” he noted, adding that this was the stance of his party, VMRO-DPMNE, “for years”. Mickoski’s remarks came after an interview […]
North Macedonia’s Socialist SDSM party elected Venko Filipce as its new leader on Sunday.
Albania player Mirlind Daku was banned on Sunday for two games after leading fans in nationalist chants at the European Championship, that UEFA said brought soccer into disrepute.
A major power outage hit Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania and most of Croatia’s coast on Friday, disrupting businesses, shutting down traffic lights and leaving people sweltering without air conditioning in the middle of a heatwave.
Albanian forward Mirlind Daku, who led fans in derogatory post-match chants about North Macedonia with a megaphone, has apologized citing the intense emotions of playing at Euro 2024. Daku was caught on camera whipping up fans after Albania’s 2-2 draw with Croatia in Hamburg.
Montenegro, Bosnia and most of Croatia’s Adriatic coast where temperatures approached 40 degrees Celcius, experienced a major power blackout on Friday, according to Montenegro power distributor CEDIS and local media.
The strict observance of international treaties is a fundamental principle of international law and a self-evident obligation for participation in international organisations”, said the Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis
The United Nations approved a resolution Thursday establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, a move vehemently opposed by Serbs who fear it will brand them all as “genocidal” supporters of the mass killing.
While the wounds of war, crimes, and the millions of refugees from the past three decades remain unhealed, signs of revanchism and revisionism are resurfacing with intensity.
The six Western Balkan countries brought together by the European Union met in Montenegro’s Adriatic resort of Kotor on Thursday to see how to speed up reforms, create their own single market and ultimately join the bloc.
We Greeks might like to forget that our country is part of the Balkans, but the peninsula’s political, historical and cultural tensions are always ready to entangle us in new adventures.
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