Moldova’s prime minister-designate Vlad Filat will present his cabinet nominations and government programme in parliament on January 14. Filat’s Democrat-Liberals and two other parties – the Democrats and the Liberals – signed a coalition government agreement on
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Georgian FM to visit Azerbaijan
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze will pay his first official visit in 2011 to Azerbaijan. The official visit will take place Jan.17-19. Vashadze will meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov. He is also scheduled to meet the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. During the bilateral meetings, both political and economic …
Read More »Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Djelic says compromise must be made with Kosovo
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said on Friday (January 7th) that the upcoming dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina could be an opportunity for an historic compromise between Serbs and Kosovo
Read More »Turkish, Greek prime ministers advocate co-operation
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou addressed the annual conference of Turkish ambassadors in the eastern city of Erzurum on Friday (January 7th). Participants outlined the challenges and problems affecting
Read More »Kosovo Albanians protest Marty’s report
About 500 Kosovars gathered on Saturday (January 8th) in the southern part of Mitrovica to protest a report by Council of Europe Rapporteur Dick Marty. The demonstration was organised by NGO Rilindia and war
Read More »IMF approves next tranche of Romania’s loan
The IMF approved a 905m-euro instalment to Romania on Friday (January 7th) under the country’s stand-by agreement with the Fund. The tranche should have been disbursed around mid-December but was postponed
Read More »Bosnia arrested war crimes suspect in Serbia
Bosnian police have arrested Croatian citizen Tihomir Purdi, who is wanted in Serbia on war crimes charges. Purdi was arrested on an Interpol warrant
Read More »Greek Prime Minister meets Turkish counterpart in eastern Turkey
The Greek prime minister is meeting his Turkish counterpart in eastern Turkey and is expected to discuss his country’s plans to build a fence along part of their mutual border to try to stop thousands of illegal migrants crossing into EU member Greece every month. The two Prime Ministers are …
Read More »Mass grave discovered in Turkey
A mass grave has been discovered in a field in southeast Turkey, local media reported on Wednesday (January 5th). The grave is believed to contain the remains of Kurds who went missing in the 1990s. The bones of eight
Read More »Inzko suspends RS state property law
High Representative Valentin Inzko suspended a law Wednesday (January 5th) on the status of state property in Republika Srpska (RS), in a bid to avoid any legal uncertainty over ownership, pending a final decision on
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