News archive of December 2018

A number of self-employed professionals, enterprises and farmers will as of 2019 only have to submit their lists of suppliers and clients once a year, by March 31, compared to four times a year (every quarter) as has been the case up until today, a circular by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue stated on Friday.

The Western Balkan's Regional Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety, which represents more than 8000 members, strongly condemns serious threats and hate messages directed to the Serbian journalist Tatjana Vojtehovski and her daughter.

Gjorge Ivanov sent this message to members of the Assembly in Skopje at the end of his one-hour speech on Friday.

He quoted the first president of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov, "who said that the issue of name and identity is older than any constitution, any government, any party, and even the the state, and that no single person, nor any generation, has no right to trade with it."

Four former Bosniak fighters were charged with involvement in abusing and torturing Bosnian Serb prisoners of war in the Gorazde and Visegrad areas in 1992 and 1993.

Local jazz musician and composer Petros Klampanis will appear at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's Lighthouse on Sunday, December 30, with a program of his own compositions and covers of some of his favorite tunes - from jazz standards and indie numbers to Greek traditional music - accompanied by a string sextet.

Swing is on the program at the capital's Half Note Jazz Club through January 3 (closed on Monday), with the Arlettes paying homage to the genre's greats in the 1930s and 40s. The trio consists of mezzo-sopranos Paulina Plucinski and Stefanie Bruckner, and soprano Madeleine Haipt, accompanied by saxophones, piano, bass and drums. Tickets cost 20, 25 and 30 euros and doors open at 10.30 p.m.

Two years after his successful Greek debut with "The Melancholy of Dragons," French director and visual artist Philippe Quesne returns to the Onassis Cultural Center with his latest production, "Crash Park: The Life of an Island," in which he fuses Homer's Odyssey with "Lost" and Jules Verne in a musical about exile and utopia. Tickets cost 7-24 euros and doors open at 8.30 p.m.

The gate of the Pakistani Supreme Court is seen in this file photo. The court has ruled on handover of FETÖ's schools in the country to Turkey.

Slovenia (31) is the top-ranked former Yugoslav state, followed by Croatia (52), with Macedonia (68), Montenegro (72) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (98) ranked behind Serbia.

As for other countries in the region, Albania is in the 74th place, while Hungary ranks 40th, followed by Romania (41), Greece (42) and Bulgaria (46).

For the fourth consecutive time, voters showed great support for Zoran Janković, again entrusting him with the management of the City of Ljubljana. He was nominated with 61,287 votes or 60.47% of the votes, enough to be elected in the first round of the local elections.