Macedonia

A series of panel discussions and cultural content related to the tumultuous history and complicated sociopolitical makeup of the Balkan region will be presented at The Hub in central Athens on June 2 and 3.

Macedonian Ambassador to Serbia Vera Jovanovska-Tipko will be summoned to the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tanjug is reporting on Tuesday.

The agency said said it learned that Jovanovska will be asked today to provide answers about the wiretapping of journalists and representatives of Serbs in Macedonia.

Serbia's ambassador to Macedonia "had a conversation" at the Macedonian MFA regarding the presence of a Serbian intelligence officer in the country's Assembly.

Beta reported this on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic has said that Goran Zivaljevic, adviser at the Serbian embassy in Skopje and a Security Information Agency (BIA) officer, had not done anything that could be interpreted as breach of the Vienna Convention or the diplomatic protocol.

In April 2017, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 548.8 thousand or by 17.7% above the registered in April 2016, according to the National Statistical Institute (NSI).

Greece has a two-speed tourism industry, both in terms of travel revenues and international arrivals as there are great differences between the different regions according to the first analytical survey on regional variations by the Bank of Greece.

Bulgarian politicians have reacted sharply to claim of Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Slavonic alphabet had arrived in Russia from Macedonian land. Putin voiced this thesis while in a meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Gjorge Ivanov and his words were quoted on the Kremlin website, BNR reported.

The criminal section of Greece's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal against the extradition to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) of Dejan Vucovic, formerly the head of FYROM's special anti-terrorism unit.

Moscow has been "closely monitoring the developments in Macedonia," Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

This is according to a Beta report on Wednesday, that quoted Macedonia's MIA agency.

On the Bulgarian-Turkish border there is a 6km queue of cargo vehicles at Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint, at exit from the country, while at Lesovo checkpoint - 3km, the press office of Chief Directorate Border Police said.

On the Bulgarian-Romanian border there is a 2km queue of cargo vehicles at Vidin checkpoint.