Tag: Serbia

Serbia rejected the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs request to remove the sign set on section of Corridor 10 which states "FYROM" instead of the constitutional name of Macedonia. Serbia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic, said that the board will stay as it is and that he sees no reason for Macedonia's reaction. On the highway Vladicin Han the sign...

President of the Council of the European Union, Donald Tusk will visit Serbia in the upcoming weekend, and he will also visit Albania and Macedonia and will meet with the leaders of the three countries, the EU Council stated. The website of the EU Council published a schedule of meetings Mr Tusk and other leaders of countries would have, he did...

The identification of a Parisian suicide bomber has become more complicated for police investigators after Serbian police on Saturday in refugee reception centre in Presevo arrested a migrant with an identical passport with the name, Ahmed Almuhamed, which was found near the terrorists remains at the stadium "Stade de France ". According to Serbian authorities, the name and other information...

Is the Syrian citizen Ahmed Almuhamed , the assumed terrorist in Paris, who apparently drove through the territory of Macedonia? It still remains a mystery, and Macedonian authorities have remained silent and secretive over the matter. Greece and Serbia yesterday confirmed that a person with that identity,went through the so-called 'Balkan Corridor', the most popular route for refugees moving towards...

The Serbian Prime Minister Aleksander Vucic voiced his unhappiness on Tuesday because of the support Macedonia and Montenegro gave to Kosovo with their recommendation for Kosovo's membership for UNESCO, but they are their own countries with their own policy. However, he added that Serbia "will not forget." “My message to the citizens of Serbia is: head up, no matter how...

Customs and Border Protection of Serbia urged travellers from Serbia due to the closure of Croatia's border crossings to travel through the surrounding countries. According to their information, vehicles with Serbian license plates can not be missed on the Croatian border crossings. Serbia appealed to passengers who have Serbian passports, to walk across the border or be transported in vehicles...

Macedonian transporters and carriers on the Croatian-Serbian and Hungarian-Serbian border are blocked after Belgrade officially decided to block all goods being carried to Croatia or somehow linked to the neighbouring country, which has strained relations because of the refugee crisis. Namely, truck drivers returning from European countries have to use alternative border entry points in Serbia, because they can not...

Macedonian Interior Minister Mitko Chavkov, at today's Conference in Ohrid, dedicated to the migrant crisis. said   "As a country, we have been left alone to deal with a situation that has arisen which is not of our making, and is in fact, caused partly by sharing a border with a Member State of the European Union." Minister Chavkov...

The new agreement that will be ratified by the governments of Macedonia and Serbia will determine border procedures of the border crossing at the train line Tabanovce – Preshevo. This was voted today by the parliamentary commission for foreign policy. The decision will see the forming of a new joint-authority zone where the personnel will conduct their duties in order...

About 5000 migrants who entered Macedonia yesterday, left this morning by taxis, buses, minibuses and are reaching Serbia in steady numbers, reports the media from there. Around 2000 migrants have arrived in the reception center in Preshevo, finds out RTS from unofficial information. According to reports, there is a crowd of people in and around the center , but the...

A portion of the e-mails and the dossiers of the controversial Italian software company “Hacking Team” based in Milan, which were leaked by “Wikileaks” at the start of July this year , reveal that at least one Serbian security agencies had inquired or negotiated the purchase of a software designed to follow communications, says in the report by Global Voices...

The statement for unification of Albania and Kosovo was taken out of context, said Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in an interview with "Al Jazeera Balkans". Rama assessed that relations between Albania and Serbia have never been better, adding that "the process of integration must be understood as the only tool for the modernization of our reality, and also to...

Basketball Federation of Serbia wants to apply for the organization of a group of 2017 European Basketball Championship, provided that FIBA keep this system with several organizers, reports "sport365.mk". Serbia was a candidate for the organization of 2015 Eurobasketball, but due to high financial costs of the leaders of BFS, it abandoned the application. Last time our northern neighbor organized...

Governments of Macedonia and Serbia today, after the second consecutive joint session, signed seven bilateral agreements in the field of economy, health, education, culture and foreign affairs. Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said that the joint session, after the one in Belgrade, confirms the continuity and the excellent cooperation between the two countries and that the excellent political cooperation is...