Southeastern European countries

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be in the port city of Thessaloniki on Thursday to participate in a debate with local businesspeople on "The growth potential of businesses in Northern Greece after the Prespes agreement."
The event will be held at the Macedonia Palace at 1 p.m.

The only ethnic Albanian candidate for the presidency in North Macedonia elections will not win the election - but may well affect the plans of the main contenders.

Without the right to a new mistake, the Bulgarian national football team faces its second European qualification test after visiting Kosovo. Three days after a 1:1 draw in Sofia with Montenegro, Peter Hubchev's footballers have a chance to improve at a very important game.

However, she said, the NATO bombing in 1999 was a mistake made of others, not of the citizens of Serbia.

Haradinaj repeated this in a conversation with Montenegrin Foreign Minister Srdjan Darmanovic, and added that he thinks it is "in the interests of both sides, and it would strengthen the peace and stability of the region," Beta agency is reporting on Thursday.

Greece's leftist administration is expected to table a measure on primary residence protection to succeed the so-called Katseli law on Friday on the basis of an agreement between the government and banks, government sources told state-run Athens-Macedonian news agency (ANA-MPA) on Wednesday.

In March 2016, European governments breathed a sigh of relief as the European Union reached a deal with Turkey designed to stop hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants heading into the heart of Europe. For many of those who had fled war, hunger and poverty hoping for a bright future on the continent, the deal shattered their dreams.

The new co-head of Kosovo's negotiating team with Serbia has changed his colours so often that many analysts fear the once popular activist has lost his former credibility.

"Is this a democratic way to solve a problem?" Russia's Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov remarked on the name deal between Greece and North Macedonia during an interview with Kathimerini on the sidelines of the Delphi Economic Forum earlier this month.

This professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem described it instead as "a well-made plan that was based on false premises."