News archive of July 2020

People who have tested positive for the coronavirus were able to vote in North Macedonia's elections at home on Monday with the help of special electoral teams assisted by medical professionals, wearing full protective equipment, who visited voters and helped them cast their ballots.

Another hearing was postponed on Tuesday in the trial at Belgrade Higher Court of eight former Bosnian Serb special policeman for taking part in the executions of 1,313 Bosniaks from Srebrenica at a farm in Kravica on July 13 and 14, 1995.

The government is not considering resigning, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov announced in Plovdiv. He explained that GERB will not resign until it has fulfilled everything set in the party's governing program.

It remains unknown what questions he answered, as well as the content of the draft indictment, which has not been confirmed, and for that reason Thaci's departure to The Hague is unclear.

The National Hall, a former cultural hub for the Slovenian minority in the Italian city of Trieste, was formally handed back on Monday, 100 years after the original building was burned down by Italian Fascists.

Namely, as Index.hr writes, a research from last week showed that 30 percent of Swedes have developed immunity to the coronavirus. If herd immunity also helps them as a measure to combat the virus during the second wave, the Swedish approach, which has been challenged and criticized by many, could prove justified.

The new decree of the Ministry of Health expanded the list from eight to 18 countries.
From Thursday, planes from all countries of the Western Balkans, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Egypt will no longer be able to land at Austrian airports.
Earlier, the ban on flights from Belarus, China, Great Britain, Iran, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine was already in force.

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, first met with the representatives of the electoral list "Albanian Democratic Alternative - United Valley".
Representatives of that list, led by Shaip Kamberi, arrived at the Presidency building just before 10 o'clock.

Stating that this is a big problem, not only in the organizational aspect, Kon said that the data will be reviewed which, according to him, will enable us to have a "much better" monitoring system in the future.

For the fifth day in a row, an anti-government protest took place on the streets of Sofia. Protesters are demanding the resignation of Borissov's cabinet and Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev.