Source: Balkan Insight Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Brussels, March 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/STEPHANIE LECOCQ Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday that country’s general elections will be held on May 21, with a second round projected for early July if no party wins a clear majority to form a government in the first […]
Source: Balkan Insight North Macedonia’s ex-prime minister Nikola Gruevski arrives in court in Skopje, October 5, 2018, shortly before he fled the country. Photo: EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI North Macedonia’s Justice Minister, Krenar Loga, told Monday’s briefing with reporters in Skopje that his country would renew efforts to extradite former PM Nikola Gruevski who fled to Hungary […]
Source: Balkan Insight Montenegrin Interior Minister Filip Adzic (L) and Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic (R) inspecting special police units. Photo: Government of Montenegro Montenegrin NGO Human Rights Action, HRA, on Friday called on the Special State Prosecution to investigate cases of systematic police torture, after photos of police brutality were published in the media. Citing […]
Source: Balkan Insight Earthquake victims mourn relatives who lost their lives in the powerful earthquakes, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, 5 March 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA Two Greek photojournalists, Kyriakos Finas and Konstantinos Zilos, and the journalist Viktoras Antonopoulos, will file a lawsuit through their Turkish lawyer against Turkey’s religious authority, the Diyanet, for destroying their cameras […]
Source: Balkan Insight Romanian women at a protest entitled ‘Misogyny – the other pandemic!’ in front of the government headquarters in Bucharest, March 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/ROBERT GHEMENT The US State Department’s global human rights report for 2022, published on Monday, said that in the majority of south-east European countries, perpetrators of domestic violence and rape […]
Source: Balkan Insight MP Giannis Ragousis speaks in a debate on a proposal by opposition party PASOK-KINAL to set up a parliamentary probe into the phone tapping scandal in Greece, August 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/Yannis Kolesidis Left-wing opposition party SYRIZA alleged on Tuesday that the Greek National Intelligence Service collaborated in the use of the illegal […]
Source: Balkan Insight The Greek parliament’s committee on institutions and transparency on March 20 summoned former Ministers of Transport Michalis Chrysochoidis, Christos Spirtzis, Kostas Karamanlis, and the current new minister Giorgos Gerapetritis to discuss the fatal train accident. Kostas Karamanlis, the former Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, resigned one day after the train collision, on […]
Source: Balkan Insight Women march to protest against sexual harassment in Geneva, Switzerland, 07 May 2022. EPA-EFE/SALVATORE DI NOLFI 59 per cent of female journalists in Poland have suffered sexual harassment at some point in their careers, according to a new report published today by the Zamenhof Institute, a Warsaw-based think tank. The research, which […]
Source: Balkan Insight The Vjosa river in Albania. Photo: BIRN Albania’s Culture Minister Mirela Kumbaro announced on Monday that the River Vjosa, its banks and the land around it are now a national park with a size of 12,727 hectares. “We have today the final decision to declare the River Vjosa, the last wild river […]
Source: Balkan Insight “It wasn’t an accident, it was murder, down New Democracy [the government],” shouted students in Athens. In Thessaloniki, the march moved towards the New Railway Station, where the fatal train route was directed. Under the slogans “Never again” and “This crime will not be forgotten,” thousands of demonstrators responded to the call […]