Montenegro

Bulgaria's Ministry of Culture will join the European Network for Literature and Books Traduki. The Ministry of Culture will sign an annex to the project's framework agreement for the period January 1, 2019- December 31, 2020, writes the Bulgarian National Radio. 

"The weakening and slowing down of the EU enlargement process in the Western Balkans opens up space for countries like Russia, and not only for them, but in different ways for both China and Turkey, and even for the Arab Emirates - the space for certain political and economic, and I would say religious activities," Vejvoda said.

The analysis of opportunities for the development of the bilateral cooperation was one of the main topics discussed on Tuesday by Prime Minister Viorica Dancila with Montenegro's Parliament President Ivan Brajovic who is paying an official visit to Bucharest.

In the nineties, illegal cigarette shipments used to leave Montenegro's port of Bar by speedboat, darting across the Strait of Otranto into the waiting arms of the Italian mafia.

More than 150 UN member states signed the Global Compact for Safe and Orderly Migration on Monday in Marrakech, Morocco - which has caused controversy in Balkan countries as it has done elsewhere.

The Belgrade Higher Court on Monday in a first-instance verdict found the alleged crime boss Darko Saric guilty of smuggling 5.7 tons of cocaine from South America to Europe and jailed him for 15 years - after a four-year trial marked by speculation, intrigues and suspicions.

Monday's expected verdict in the trial of alleged crime boss and drugs smuggler Darko Saric will end a four-year-long case that has been marked by speculation, intrigues and suspicions.

"The agreement on friendship, cooperation and partnership between Ukraine and Russia will be abolished on April 1, 2019," TASS is reporting, citing the proposal.

The agency said 277 deputies voted to support the decision that needed 226 votes to pass.

After meeting the new President of Republika Srpska, Zeljka Cvijanovic, on Thursday in Banja Luka, Milorad Dodik, the former RS President and new Serbian member of the Bosnian Presidency, said he would be seeking to replace a list of Bosnian ambassadors.

The Serbian president thanked Stoltenberg in a telephone conversation for his statement that "this was no time" to form an army of so-called Kosovo and that so-called Kosovo's intent to transform its security forces into an army was coming "at the wrong time."