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Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci's defence lawyer Gregory Kehoe told the Kosovo Specialist Chambers at a status conference in the trial on Tuesday "there is no tribunal that has put measures" in place for witness protection like the ones being imposed at his client's trial in The Hague.

The Ministry of Finance is preparing a draft budget in which the indicators fully meet the Maastricht criteria, that is, for entry into the Eurozone. For now, Bulgaria plans to do this in 2025.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev stated today that he has always - both in Bulgaria and in Brussels - maintained that the country should not interfere by providing arms to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. He emphasized that he does not support participation in the initiative of the European Union countries to send 1 million projectiles to the attacked country.

According to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, the Republic of North Macedonia is not ready to start negotiations for EU membership:

President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Memli Krasniqi, said that the elections were the result of escalation in the north, which resulted in the deterioration of relations with the international community.
Krasniqi also said that he should not have insisted on sending the mayors to municipal facilities, reports Siri.

"Donald Trump and his team made big and innovative moves to bring Kosovo and Serbia closer together. We had an economic agreement that both sides pushed forward," said Grenell.

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, and the President of Hungary, Katalin Novak, will attend the session.
The prime ministers of the two countries, Ana Brnabi and Viktor Orban, are also present.
It is the first session to be held, and members of the governments of the two countries are also present at the session.

Member of the Delegation of Serbia in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Elvira Kova, stated that Hungary was asked about not voting for the admission of the so-called Kosovo in SE.

The Greek economy will be upgraded by credit rating agencies to investment-grade level following the national elections on June 25, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras asserted on Monday.

Dejan, then 20, had been nearing the end of his military service in Kosovo, then a southern province of Serbia, when NATO launched air strikes to halt a brutal Serbian counter-insurgency war. At the time, Serbia and Montenegro were all that was left of Yugoslavia, still joined together after the other four republics - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia - had seceded.