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05 February 2010 |

Simon Cottrell It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Feith: 'New Beginning' for Mitrovica
05 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has said the appointment of a team to create a new Serb-majority municipality in the divided city of Mitrovica could herald a 'new beginning'.

Georgieva, Ciolos Approved with New Commission
09 February 2010 |

The European Parliament has approved the new European Commission at its session in Strasbourg. Kristalina Georgieva and Dacian Ciolos are the new commissioners from Bulgaria and Romania, respectively.

Koricanske stijene: Awareness of Security
09 February 2010 |

A member of the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he spoke to Milorad Skrbic while investigating the murder at Koricanske stijene and "determined that he did not have any operational data about this event".



Macedonia Press Review – November 25

Skopje | 25 November 2009 | Sinisa-Jakov Marusic
 
Macedonia Press
Macedonia Press
Here are the top stories in Macedonia’s main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.

DNEVNIK
In its text dubbed “neither veto nor negotiations”, the daily cites unnamed European diplomat as saying that Greece will not put a veto to Macedonia’s date for EU accession talks in December. Instead of this, and rather than risk a Greek veto, the EU will decide to postpone by a few months the granting of a start date for EU accession negotiations.


UTRINSKI VESNIK
The Bulgarian authorities are pressing for their demands from Macedonia to be fulfilled before the EU decides to grant accession talks to the country, the daily cites unnamed sources as saying. They are pushing for the 1990 bilateral declaration on good neighborly relations to be lifted to a state agreement thus ensuring that Macedonia would respect its provisions. In the already signed declaration both countries pledge not to take or support hostile actions against each other.



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