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Kozeta Cika contributed to this article Image by The electoral campaign for parliamentary elections in Albania have been accompanied by mutual accusations between the two parties that were in coalition during the last four-year governance, the Socialist Party and the Socialist Movement for Integration. Socialist Party leaders, including Edi Rama,…
Image by Kremlin.ru The Serbian president-elect and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic declared today that the Balkan nation has no plans to join the NATO alliance, as many of its former Yugoslavian nations have. Serbia is a long-time ally of Russia and was not expected to join the Western defense bloc….
Kozeta Cika contributed to this article Image by Helmandsare Montenegro is expected to be the next NATO member, bringing the total number of member countries to 29. “Montenegro will become a NATO member in June”, NATO General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, stated a few days ago. He specified that all Alliance…
Kozeta Cika contributed to this article. Rama-Basha intense efforts for an agreement were finalized today (May 18th), lifting the Democratic Party’s tent from the boulevard. The agreement between the two parties came after negotiations were made by the US Assistant Secretary, Hoyt Lee, for nearly four days. This agreement was…
Image by MacedonianBoy Macedonia appears to have turned the corner on a political crisis which recently saw thugs storm parliament and beat up MPs. Gjorge Ivanov, its president, gave opposition leader Zoran Zaev the legal mandate to form a coalition government with two ethnic Albanian parties on Wednesday (17 May)….
Kozeta Cika contributed to this article The Albanian Opposition party and its ally’s protest, planned days ago through media and tv spots by the Democratic Party (DP), whose “new” offices now are settled in a tent in the middle of main boulevard for more than 80 days, was waged peacefully…
Kozeta Cika contributed to this article Image by David Liuzzo Today, the government in Kosovo fell, after the parliament approved the opposition’s no-confidence motion against the current government with 78 votes. The vote was a surprise, as the government did not expect its allies to vote in favor of the…
The violence that swept the Macedonian parliament on April 27 was owed to the fact that politics in the Former Yugoslavian Republic have been blocked since last December’s indeterminate elections. Violence broke out on the pretext that Talat Xhaferri, an Albanian, was elected as Assembly Chairman. Xhaferri was voted in…