FM Vuk Jeremić says there is a very good chance that the International Court of Justice will rule that Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration was illegal. “We’re hopeful. We’re confident of the strength of our legal arguments and it would be hard to impose political views on that court,“ Jeremić told …

The trial of the members of the so-called Gnjilane Group of the KLA has resumed at the District Court War Crimes Chamber in Belgrade. The accused are charged with torture and execution of civilians in Kosovo in 1999. Defendant Agus Memisi, who yesterday began his defense by denying all the …

Leaders of the three main political parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina are due to discuss the increasingly fraught political situation in the country next week. Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) leader Dragan Čović proposed the meeting with his counterparts in the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), …

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. …