News archive of August 2016

The meeting with Serbia's president and PM will also address the implementation of the Dayton Agreement, i.e., the behavior and work of the high representative.

With a million people, Bulgaria's capital Sofia is "delightfully livable, with fine architecture, lush parks and plenty of history," according to an article in the Seattle Times.

Serbia wants to demonstrate that it has an active role in maintaining stability in the region, says Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic.

Speaking on Wednesday, he added that despite the tensions in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the occasion of the announced referendum in the RS, the stability of our country is not threatened.

The Novi Sad local assembly's culture commission decided on Tuesday to build the memorial to innocent people killed by Tito's Communist forces in 1944 and 1945 after the liberation of the city from the Nazis, although the reasons for their deaths have yet to be properly established.

The volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Bulgaria in 2015 was 7.2% higher compared to the figure for the previous year, national statistics show.

Throughout 2015, FDI stood at EUR 23.127 B, of which some 66.8% was in the sectors of industry and services, according to preliminary data published by the National Statistical Institute (NSI).

Turkey's main opposition party and the Union of Bar Associations (TBB) will not participate in this year's ceremony for the opening of the judicial year on Sept. 1, complaining that it will undermine the separation of powers as it will be held at the presidential palace in Ankara. 

The number of foreign arrivals to Turkey plunged more than 30 percent in the first seven months of the year, official data showed on Aug. 31, as tensions with Russia, a series of deadly bombings and the July 15 failed coup attempt kept tourists away.

The Banja Luka-Doboj highway will be named "January 9", the public broadcaster of the Serb entity (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina has reported.

The summer of 2016 could turn out to be the most successful ever for the tourist industry in Bulgaria, the Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova, said on Tuesday.

She noted a 20.6-per-cent rise in foreign tourists who spent their vacation in Bulgaria in July, reported by the National Statistics Institute, or NSI, on Monday.

Serbia's Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, said on Tuesday that President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet Bosnian Serb leaders on Thursday to discuss the planned referendum there after it was condemned by the Peace Implementation Council, PIC.

The PIC is the international body charged with implementing the 1995 Dayton peace agreement for Bosnia.