News archive of April 2018

Speaking at a traditional meeting with members of the Serbian Association of Managers on Friday, Fiscal Council representatives noted that "foundations for sustainable and healthy public finances and acceleration of economic growth can be set in 2018 as the most significant quantitative objectives of fiscal consolidation were achieved in 2017."

Vecernje Novosti is reporting this.

Haradinaj also said that "Kosovo and Catalonia have nothing in common" and that "the analogy makes no sense - because Kosovo was made through the breakup of Yugoslavia in a bloody process of all against all, while civil and political rights are respected in Spain."

He added that he "expects Spain to accept Kosovo as a member of the EU."

Athens's defense procurement plans have been met with raised eyebrows and complaints in certain European capitals. Beyond the competition that has always existed between France and Germany in this field, Greece is being accused of spending European taxpayers' money on a shopping spree.

A football fan took things a step further when he bought a crane to see the Denizlispor game in Denizli in Turkey's west on April 28, as he was banned from entering the stadium.

It is indeed time for Greece to become a normal country again, but an official exit from a system of austerity and supervision alone is not enough to make this happen.

The role of the leftist SYRIZA and right-wing nationalist Independent Greeks' coalition government is waning as time goes by. Those who voted for this government out of anger realize that they made a mistake.

Turkish Super League Galatasaray defeated Beşiktaş 2-0 late on April 29, extending its stay atop only three weeks before the end of the season and crushing its city rival's title hopes. 

As tensions in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean appear, for the time being at least, to have subsided, Athens is sticking to its strategy of avoiding public spats with Ankara - to the degree that it is feasible - and is reportedly mulling its stance toward Turkey after snap presidential and parliamentary elections are held there on June 24.

He is today a protected witness of the EULEX, learns the Journalists Association of Serbia (UNS).

Unidentified assailants killed Xhemail Mustafa, in front of his apartment in Pristina on November 23, 2000.

Turkish authorities began taking security measures in Istanbul's historic Taksim Square a day before May 1, International Workers' Day, despite a government ban to mark the event there. 

A number of military positions of the Bashar al-Assad regime were hit late on April 29 by rockets in Syria's Hama and Aleppo provinces, according to the regime's official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).