March, 2013

• 1 March

  Croatia Schedules First European Elections

  Croats will elect their first 12 MEPs on April 14, President Ivo Josipovic announced on Friday.Josipovic has scheduled European parliamentary elections in Croatia under a law which says Croatia should elect European MPs before it joins the European Union on July 1. The country has the right to 12 MPs …

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• 1 March

  Serbia Lifts Permitted Aflatoxin Limit Tenfold

  Serbia has massively increased the permitted level of aflatoxins in milk, posing a potential threat to the country’s dairy exports.Serbia has raises the maximum permitted concentration of aflatoxins in milk to 0.5 micrograms per kilo from 0.05 micrograms – a tenfold increase. Goran Knezevic, the Agriculture Minister, said the government …

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• 1 March

  Nationalists Protest Kosovo PM’s Concessions on North

  Opposition MPs interrupted Prime Minister Hashim Thaci on Thursday – angered by his decision to permit local authorities in the Serb-run north to form an ‘association’.Liburn Aliu and Visar Ymeri, MPs from the opposition nationalist Self-Determination Movement, went up to podium of parliament holding a banner as Prime Minister Thaci …

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• 1 March

  Bulgaria President Calls Elections on May 12

  General election all but inevitable, if as seems likely the ethnic Turkish party refuses to form a government.Bulgarians will go to the polls on May 12, President Rosen Plevneliev announced on Thursday in a special address to parliament. The date is predicated on the likely refusal of the ethnic Turkish-dominated …

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• 1 March

  Turkey will send note to UN in reply to Greece

  Turkey will deliver a verbal note to the United Nations in reply to a recent Greek motion that argued that the areas Turkey had granted exploration permits in the Mediterranean were deemed to fall within the Greek continental shelf.

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• 1 March

  Macedonian Parties end political deadlock

  Macedonian political parties on Friday reached a deal ending months of political deadlock and an opposition boycott of Parliament that had threatened the country’s efforts to join the European Union and NATO. In a deal brokered by EU officials, conservative Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski

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• 1 March

  New Cyprus president sworn in

  Newly-elected Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades was sworn in on Thursday for a five-year term and immediately issued a warning to prospective international lenders that forcing depositors in Cypriot banks to take losses was out of the question.

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• 1 March

  First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece to visit Azerbaijan

  Mr. Dimitrios Kourkoulas, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece will visit Baku on 6-8 March, 2013. He will meet with members of the Government of Azerbaijan, according to the Greek Embassy in Azerbaijan. He will also lead a business delegation which will participate in the Greek-Azerbaijani business forum.

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February, 2013

• 28 February

  Hague Acquits Yugoslav General Perisic of War Crimes

  The Hague Tribunal acquitted Yugoslav Army general Momcilo Perisic on appeal, quashing his 27-year prison sentence for war crimes during the 1990s conflict.The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ruled on Thursday that Perisic was not responsible for the wartime crimes committed by the Bosnian …

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• 28 February

  Croatia to Withdraw From UN Syria Border Force

  PM says media reports of supplying weapons to Syrian rebels have compromised safety of troops.Croatia said on Thursday that it was about to withdraw its soldiers stationed on the Golan Heights as part of a UN force, after a US newspaper reported said that Syrian rebels battling the regime of …

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