Macedonia

BELGRADE - German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday that Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) top Jihad recruitment sources in the Balkans, adding that Serbia is adopting amendments to the criminal law in order to hinder and prevent perspective fighters from joining the radical Islamic groups.

Macedonia's main ethnic Albanian party has proposed its own solution to the country's longlasting dispute over a census.

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BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic held a reception in Belgrade on Saturday to mark the 45th anniversary of the international children's event 'Joy of Europe' and told the children to stay in touch with their new friends and grow to be good adults.

Greece’s bid to establish its demand for the return of Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum in London to the Acropolis Museum in Athens more firmly on the international agenda came a step closer this week after UNESCO agreed to act as arbiter in the dispute between Greece and the UK.

ZLATIBOR - The OSCE Mission to Serbia launched a project aimed at strengthening police capacity of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro in the fight against organized crime at a joint meeting of officials of the countries' interior ministries on Friday.

BELGRADE - The organisational committee decided on Friday on the programme for the 70th anniversary of Belgrade's liberation, which will begin on October 10 and finish on October 20, with a military parade and a formal event in honour of the city's liberators.

Europe RE: Flood damage to Serbia from EUR 1.5 to 2 billion

BELGRADE -- Serbia's has joined a unique system for insurance against natural disasters as cofounder of the regional reinsurance company "Europe RE".

BELGRADE- Serbia's has joined a unique system for insurance against natural disasters as cofounder of the regional reinsurance company "Europe RE", whić began its operations in Serbia on Thursday including Albania and Macedonia among its shareholders.

Serbia invested a total USD 5 million in establishing of the "Europe RE" with headquarters in Switzerland.

In the second quarter of 2014, Macedonia owed a total of €5.741 billion to creditors outside the country.

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ZAGREB - Serbia exploits the least amount of natural resources in the Western Balkans, where the biggest demand on the environment comes from Slovenia, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says in its latest report.