On Friday, Vlad Filat presented in parliament the work program of his Government called “European Integration: Freedom, Democracy and Welfare”. In his words, the document is based on 5 priorities: European integration; country reintegration; superiority of law; overcoming of financial and economic crisis and ensuring of economic growth; power decentralization …

The main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, leader’s meeting with European Union ambassadors Thursday has ended with no surprises. CHP leader Deniz Baykal attended a luncheon with EU envoys to Ankara under the initiative of the EU’s term president Sweden’s embassy. In his remarks reflected in Turkish dailies, Baykal …

The United States will not move any missile defenses to the Balkans, a top U.S. official said Thursday. The statement comes after President Barack Obama dropped plans by predecessor George W. Bush for ground-based interceptor missiles in Poland and a related radar site in the Czech Republic to provide European …

Membership in the European Union remains a dream of all countries that emerged from the ashes of the former Yugoslav Federation, with some of them still far away from achieving of this goal. Nonetheless, the paper adds, the prospects are not all that bleak. Macedonia might get a date for …

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko “is an absolute supporter of the policy for restoring friendly, but very pragmatic relations with Russia.” She has made a statement at the 6th Yalta European Strategy summit in the Crimea on Friday.

Georgia is “a nation with a deep wound running through her” since fighting broke out last year with South Ossetian and Abkhaz separatists and their Russian allies, its President told the General Assembly tonight, vowing that he and his people will never accept “a new dividing line in our country”, …

If there are enough facts on violations during vote at Bulgarian parliamentary elections in Turkey they should be annulled,  leader Ataka political party Volen Siderov said. He added annulling elections is Turkey is a matter of finding violations, which would be accepted by the court and the Central Electoral Commission. …

The name Albanians and the time when they arrived in Macedonia are issues that are interpreted in different ways in other encyclopedias published in the country earlier and in Former Yugoslavia, Macedonian Nova Makedonija newspaper writes. Some back the thesis that the Albanians arrived in Macedonia in the XVI century, …

Russia and Bulgaria will continue co-operation on the construction of Belene NPP, the first vice-president of Atomstroyeksport Alexander Gluhov said. “We will not stop the project but will continue it after we correct the financial scheme.” Gluhov pointed negotiations in Bulgaria with the Russian energy minister Sergey Shmatko and head …

UNITED NATIONS The unification of Cyprus must be brought about by Cypriots themselves, President Demetris Christofias told the General Assembly yesterday, adding the despite progress in negotiations, serious obstacles remain towards finding a final solution for the Mediterranean island. Mr. Christofias said that he and the leader of the Turkish …