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VIDEO: Searching for Solutions in the Balkans
This is the first debate in the Balkan Forum series supported by the European Fund for the Balkans and produced in cooperation between Europarl TV from Brussels and NOVATV from Skopje.
The debate hosts MEPs Ivo Weigel, Edward Kukan and Miltijadis Kirkos, and professor and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria Florian Bieber.
Bulgaria to Lose Role as Gas Transit Country - Gazprom CEO
Bulgaria, and not the European Union, should be blamed for the demise of the South Stream project, Russian energy concern Gazprom's CEO Alexey Miller has reiterated.
Miller told a Russian TV channel on Sunday Bulgaria would lose the role of a transit country it is currently enjoying, carrying 18 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas to Turkey, Macedonia and Greece.
"Macedonian president was dead before plane crashed"
"Macedonian president was dead before plane crashed"
SKOPJE -- A draft report about the 2004 plane crash in which Macedonian President Boris Trajkoviski lost his life states the victims were dead before the aircraft fell.
The draft was handed to the Macedonian authorities by Omer Kulic, who chairs an international commission that investigated the crash.
Police and customs seize ton of marijuana
Police and customs seize ton of marijuana
BELGRADE -- The Serbian police and customs service on Friday confiscated a ton of marijuana, Tanjug is reporting.
The seizure took place at the Presevo border crossing between Serbia and Macedonia.
The drug 's origin was Albania. The Interior Ministry (MUP) is expected to soon reveal more details.
Bosnia Urged to Reform to Overcome Export Curbs
Renzo Daviddi, the deputy head of EU Delegation, said Thursday that the country has to raise standards and adopt the necessary veterinary and food safety legislation to be allowed to export milk to the EU.
Daviddi said there were a lot of technical issues to be solved by various institutions but political will was needed to make a breakthrough.
Belgrade hosts salsa festival
BELGRADE - The 9th International Festival of Salsa and other Caribbean dances under the title Salsa Motion Weekend will be held in Belgrade from December 5 to 7 and it will gather around 1,000 dancers from Serbia and the world.