Angry employees of the Oltchim chemical company rallied in Bucharest demanding payment of their overdue wages and urging the government to step in and save the plant.Around 1,000 workers at Romania’s ailing Oltchim plant staged a protest on Tuesday in front of the government building in Bucharest, demonstrating against unpaid …
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Vienna to Host Balkan Infrastructure Summit
The two-day Balkan Infrastructure and Construction Summit aims to inform foreign investors of business opportunities in the region.The first Balkans Infrastructure and Construction Summit will be held in Vienna on May 29 and 30. The organisers of the event, the International Research Networks, IRN, stated that the high-profile forum aims …
Read More »Kosovo Parliament Speaker says Serbia’s rejection of EU offer on Kosovo is not tragic
Kosovar Parliament Speaker Yakup Krasnici on Monday said that Serbia’s rejection of an European Union (EU) offer on Kosovo was “not tragic”. In a statement made on Monday, Krasnici underlined that Kosovo and
Read More »France starts to withdraw troops from Mali
France has started to withdraw its troops from Mali, with the first group of 100 soldiers already leaving the West African country to Cyprus, local media reported Tuesday.
Read More »Bulgaria could build 2 bridges over Danube
“Road infrastructure in North Bulgaria will be a total priority in the next programme period,” Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev said at the opening of the 8th Annual National Conference ‘Strategic Infrastructure Bulgaria 2013’.
Read More »Romanian Economy Minister meets Armenian PM
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met Romanian Economy Minister Varujan Vosganian to discuss improvement of bilateral ties.
Read More »Montenegro President re-elected for third time
Montenegro’s President Filip Vujanovic has won a third term in office, the electoral commission has said, despite opposition claims that their candidate was the winner. Vujanovic won 51.21 percent of the votes compared with Miodrag Lekic’s 48.79 percent, commission chairman Ivan Kalezic told reporters on Monday.
Read More »UN special envoy says Mali elections in July will be difficult
Holding elections in Mali in July “is going to be difficult but desirable”, given the large number of displaced people and the adverse climate conditions, UN special envoy for the Sahel Romano Prodi told the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
Read More »New round of talks on Macedonian name issue to be held in New York
UN mediator in the Macedonia-Greece name row, Matthew Nimitz, will meet with the negotiators of the two countries – Zoran Jolevski and Adamandios Vasilakis.
Read More »China backs Serbia on its priorities
China strongly supports Serbia in all state priorities including the preservation of the territorial integrity, Vuk Jeremic has said. Serbia’s former foreign minister, now UN General Assembly
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