KOSOVO New Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen made his maiden visit to Kosovo yesterday to evaluate his plans to trim the alliance’s security mission in the breakaway Serbian province a decade after war. Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, hopes to gradually wind down the presence of Nato’s 13,800-strong Kosovo …

MOLDOVA According to this information, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova Marian Lupu will occupy the President’s post, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova Vlad Filat – the Parliament Chairman’s post, Leader of the Moldova Noastra Alliance Serafim Urechean – the Prime Minister’s post. Leaders the Alliance …

MOLDOVA The decision is final and takes effect upon pronouncement. The Constitutional Court on Friday validated the outcome of the July 29 elections and confimed the distribution of seats in parliament: 48 for PCRM, 18 for PLDM, 15 for PL, 13 for PDM, and 7 for AMN. The Court dismissed …

MOLDOVA Until August 29 the outgoing president of Moldova must issue a decree to convene the eighteenth Parliament for the first sitting The Constitutional Court (CC) dismissed the PPCD’s request to recount the votes as groundless. The Court’s decision on the July 29 elections passed on August 14 does not …

KYIV, Ukraine Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko rejected criticism of Kiev’s policy towards Moscow in a stinging attack from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who had accused him of being anti-Russian. “I am very disappointed by the openly unfriendly” comments by Medvedev, he said in a letter to the Russian president published …

TURKEY The government will continue to take every step necessary to achieve success with its recently announced Kurdish initiative, regardless of what the cost may be, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said. Speaking at his party’s Extended Province Chairmen meeting on the eighth anniversary of the Justice and Development …

The impact of the constant objection by French and German leaders to Turkey’s European Union membership drive has been revealed through a public survey that showed a significant loss of confidence in these two countries among the public. According to the survey, conducted this month by the Ankara-based International Strategic …

BULGARIA, MACEDONIA Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov promised that he will look into the case of Spaska Mitrova. Tthe ex-Bulgarian President Petar Stojanov discussed the Mitrova case with the Macedonian President Ivanov in a telephone conversation. Ivanov vowed to get familiarized with this case in the following days, take adequate actions …

ALBANIA The Union of the Albanian Police Force requested today from the Interior Minister Bujar Nishani to resign from the post. The Union’s Syndicate Valentin Matsaj said that the Union’s move was prompted by suspicions that members of police forces had tipped the criminal Dritan Dajti about busting operation against …

SLOVENIA Slovenian authorities plan to build three artificial islands nearby Izola. The construction, predicted to start in two years would cost 217 million euros and 11.8 kilometers of sea cost will be added. Construction of these kinds of islands is hit among the countries, specially the ones from East, where …