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...As in Serbia, no turn to western-style liberal democracy is plausible in the near future in Russia. The only post-Milošević prime minister of Serbia who embraced these values was Zoran Đinđić....
...On Tuesday Giorgia Meloni, who took over as prime minister in October, attended a western Balkans conference in Trieste....
...“This will . . . truly make Croatia a regional energy hub,” Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said last month....
...Jerzy Buzek, the former Polish prime minister who negotiated on behalf of the European parliament, said he had pushed for 90 per cent but conceded “we do not have enough gas for that”....
...“We are sorry that only one of the 27 member states is blocking the process for North Macedonia,” North Macedonian prime minister Zoran Zaev said at the summit....
...Zoran Zaev, prime minister of North Macedonia, expressed frustration that “the EU does not deliver” on its promises, adding: “We need to accelerate practical benefits to our citizens.”...
...North Macedonia’s prime minister Zoran Zaev exulted in the qualification, while carefully avoiding any mention of the country’s name....
...Paris’s block caused the North Macedonian prime minister Zoran Zaev to resign and call new elections, because his government had pledged progress towards the EU in exchange for public support for the unpopular...
...In March 2003, Zoran Djindjic, Serbia’s reformist prime minister, was assassinated by a special forces sniper....
...Zoran Zaev, prime minister, and his colleagues have discarded the ultranationalism of their predecessors....
...The compromise required considerable political courage on the part of Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, respective prime ministers of Greece and North Macedonia....
...Macedonia’s fugitive ex-prime minister Nikola Gruevski said on Tuesday that Hungary had granted him asylum after he fled to Budapest on the eve of serving a jail sentence at home....
...The ousting of Mr Gruevski and the election of Zoran Zaev, his centre-left rival, opened the way to a compromise and to his credit, Alexis Tspiras, Greece’s leftwing prime minister, took it despite widespread...
...Gergely Gulyas, Hungary’s minister for the prime minister’s office, said “Hungarian state authorities had nothing to do with him leaving his home country”....
..., Vucic becomes PM 2012 Aleksandar Vucic becomes leader of Serbian Progressive party and deputy prime minister 2008 Kosovo declares independence 2003 Prime minister Zoran Dindic assassinated 2001...
...Mr Ahmeti now leads an ethnic Albanian party that governs with the Social Democrats of Zoran Zaev, the energetic young prime minister who spearheads Macedonia’s effort at reconciliation with Greece....
...Zoran Zaev, who took over as Macedonia’s prime minister last May, has followed a reformist, pro-western path and launched talks with Greece, its southern neighbour on resolving a decades-old dispute over...
...And just at the moment, with particularly EU-friendly leaders in Albania, Serbia and Macedonia, with Zoran Zaev newly installed as prime minister, there is a cadre of reformers available to lead the way....
...Meeting veterans of Croatia’s 1991-95 war, former prime minister Zoran Milanović was secretly recorded describing neighbouring Bosnia as a failed state....
...According to official calculations, the Social Democratic party, led by former prime minister Zoran Milanovic, won 54 seats — below pollsters’ earlier expectations....
...Instead, we are likely to see a scenario with a new prime minister but with Mr Gruevski pulling the strings in the background.”...
...Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s prime minister, has appealed to the EU to intervene, while the country’s justice minister Nikola Selakovic said Serbia had been “brutally attacked by Croatia”....
...“We cannot register and accommodate these people any longer,” said Zoran Milanovic, Croatia’s prime minister. “They will get food, water and medical help, and then they can move on....
...Many Croats, with recent experience of being refugees themselves, have applauded the tolerant approach of Zoran Milanovic, the prime minister, and the government’s relatively efficient handling of far bigger...
...“Croatia is entirely ready to receive or direct those people where they want to go, which is obviously Germany or Scandinavian countries,” Zoran Milanovic, Croatia’s prime minister, was quoted as saying...
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