Macedonia

Health authorities preparing to deal with possible Ebola infections, official says

The Health Ministry's general secretary Christina Papanikolaou said on Friday that Greek authorities were braced to deal with a potential Ebola infection in Greece in the wake of several cases being reported in Spain, the Former Yuguslav Republic of Macedonia and the Czech Republic.

IS Recruits Fighters From The Balkans

The Balkan Peninsula is one of the places where the Islamic State (IS) recruits fighters, the President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic told the UN General Assembly, quoted by Bulgaria's Nova TV national channel.

According to him, the Balkans are the third region, after the Middle East and Western Europe, that provides large numbers of warriors for the terrorist organisation.

Macedonian Collaborator Hunters Eye Secret Serbian Files

The head of the Lustration Commission, Tome Adziev, said he hoped that an agreement on the exchange of classified files with Serbia will allow access to the secret files of some prominent Macedonians which are now believed to be stored in Belgrade.

The agreement on data exchange was signed in February and is awaiting ratification in the Macedonian parliament this month.

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FYROM PM says Greek suggestions for name are ‘unacceptable’

Greece’s terms for a solution to an ongoing name dispute with the neighboring Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) “have been shaped in such a way to be unacceptable to us,” the Balkan country’s prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, told the Skopje-based Republika newspaper on Friday.

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