Balkans.com Correspondent in Tirana – 26.10.2009 Albania ranks 110th of 140 countries for access to electricity, the World Bank reported in its 2009 list (www.doingbusiness.org). A business needs 162 days to receive a power connection in Albania after application involving five procedures. Albania comes second to last in the region after Montenegro (48), Croatia (49), Greece (66), Serbia (68), FYR […]

From the book <The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight Through Montenegro and Serbia by Jan Gordon, Cora Gordon – 1916>. http://books.google.com/books?id=rHi…K4NPd-YjwbpEcA http://books.google.com/books?id=FID…3DIQ#PPA136,M1 Again no indication of ethnic <Macedonians> in Scopje,only Bulgarians, Serbs and Turks. By Kostas68

FYROM and Kosovo are Poorest States in the Balkans BalkanTravellers.com 11 September 2008 FYROM and Kosovo have the highest percentages of poor people among their populations compared to the other countries in the region, Fyromian media reported today. The World Bank’s data showed that 45 per cent of Kosovo’s population is poor and families have at their disposal less than […]