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Thewesternbalkans The President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani has set February 9, 2025, as the date for holding regular parliamentary elections. Osmani signed a decree saying the date was set after consultations with the political parties and the Central Election Commission...

Thewesternbalkans The European Commission (EC) announced on 1 of July a new investment package within the EU Investment Plan for the Western Balkans, which is expected to raise 1.2 billion euros. This package will support eight key new investments in water...

Thewesternbalkans Montenegro’s parliament voted on 23 July a government reshuffle that will include ministers from the pro-Serbian and pro-Russian “For the Future of Montenegro” (ZBCG) coalition, as well as the party representing the country's Bosniak minority. The reshuffle is in...

Thewesternbalkans Albanian vehicle structures manufacturer Timak said on June 11 it has completed assembling the country’s first armored military vehicle prototype, an infantry mobility vehicle. The vehicle named SHOTA was warned three weeks ago by the Albanian minister of defence Niko...

Thewesternbalkans North Macedonia's Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski announced on July 11 that he had reached agreement with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán for a EUR 500 million loan to Skopje. The loan is part of a deal on "special economic cooperation"...

Thewesternbalkans Montenegro is among the 23 members of NATO, which this year will allocate more than two percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for defense, announced the Minister of Defense of Montenegro Dragan Krapović, after the NATO meeting held...

Thewesternbalkans On Monday 14 of October 2024, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomed the heads of six Western Balkan countries during a Berlin summit aimed at forging closer ties between those nations and the EU and marked a decade since the...

Thewesternbalkans Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has stated that he will consider the possibility of participating in a BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia in October this year. The BRICS economic alliance consists of: Brazil, Russia, India, China, the Republic of South Africa,...

Thewesternbalkans For the first time Albania allocated budget funds for defense, at the level of 2% of the GDP, fulfilling NATO's request and in the following years, defense investments will not fall below the 2% level, but will even gradually...

Thewesternbalkans During his working visit to the United States of America, President Milatović, as the youngest head of a member state of the Alliance, opened the NATO 2024 Youth Summit ‘Shaping Your Tomorrow’. Taking place in Miami, US, and Stockholm, Sweden,...