The Macedonian Minister for Foreign Affairs Antonio Milososki will attend the 17-th OSCE Ministerial meeting, which will take place in Athens December 1-2. Milososki will give a speech at the Ministerial meeting and he is expected to hold bilateral talks with other countries’ foreign ministers.

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski will meet EC President Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday December 2. According to previous announcements, the meeting was confirmed after prime ministers Nikola Gruevski and George Papandreou met on Friday in the Greek part of Prespa region.

The IMF can quickly resume talks with Romania as soon as it draws up a credible 2010 budget, a Fund official was quoted as saying on Monday, ahead of a presidential vote expected to result in a new cabinet. The International Monetary Fund halted a review of Romania’s 20 billion …

Moldova Saturday received the first tranche of 15 million euros of the financial assistance provided by the EU in budget support, Minister of Fiance Veaceslav Negruta said.

The deadline for putting forward candidates for the post of President of Moldova expires on December 3, communiqué from the special commission for organizing the second round of presidential elections.

The governments of Russia and Serbia are in negotiations to build a nuclear power plant in Serbia, the Russian ambassador to Belgrade says.

Serbia expects that those EU member-states which do not belong to the Schengen Area will also lift their visa requirements for the Serbian citizens. This is according to Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić, who said that his statement “primarily regards Serbia’s neighbors Romania and Bulgaria”.

“When Croatia joins the EU it shall support Serbia joining the EU, too. My country shall in no way block the European path of any of the countries in the region”, Croatia’s President Stjepan Mesic said. Croatia believes that the inclusion of the entire region in the EU is strategic …

Albanian Education Ministry’s programme envisages institutional cooperation and mutual recognition of diplomas issued by universities in Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo.

Antonis Samaras was elected the new leader of Greece’s conservative New Democracy party, succeeding former prime minister Costas Karamanlis who stepped down after ND’s crushing defeat in general elections.