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Macedonia crisis: Socialist leader Zaev injured as parliament in Skopje stormed over election of Albanian speaker

April 28, 2017April 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Macedonia

Socialist SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev and 10 police officers were injured in a confrontation as Macedonia’s parliament in capital

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Bulgaria 

Plevneliev: Russia, Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia try to influence political process in Bulgaria

April 24, 2017April 25, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Macedonia, Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev, Russia, Serbia, Turkey

Bulgaria’s former president Rossen Plevneliev says that four countries are trying “in one way or another” to influence the political

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s GERB leader Borissov: Never has the situation in the Balkans been so ‘pre-war’

March 15, 2017March 17, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Macedonia, Turkey

Never has the situation in the Balkans been so “pre-war”, GERB leader Boiko Borissov told an election meeting on March

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Europe 

Socialist SDSM continues efforts to form a government in Macedonia while Gruevski’s party opposes

March 13, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Political parties that have secured a majority in parliament to form a new government in the Republic of Macedonia have said that they

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President: More pragmatism needed in work of Southeast Europe Cooperation Process

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Roumen Radev, Serbia, Turkey

At a meeting with ambassadors from seven Balkan countries in Sofia on March 8, Bulgarian head of state President Roumen

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Europe 

Macedonian president Ivanov does not mandate Zaev to form a government

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The president of  Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov held a news conference on March 1 to announce his decision on the mandate regarding

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Europe 

Protests, violent incidents and journalists beaten in Skopje

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

A beaten group of journalists and violent clashes between Slav-Macedonian young people and Albanians was the outcome of last night’s

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Europe 

Macedonian social democrat leader expects mandate to form government

February 28, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The leader of the social democrats in the Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, has delivered to the country’s president Gjorge

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Europe 

Two months after the elections, Macedonia is yet to form a government

February 13, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Political leaders in the Republic of Macedonia are yet to come to an agreement on the creation of a new government

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