Serbian Parliament Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović says that Serbia will not give up on its EU pathway even if it does not get the EU candidate status on December 9. She however added that she believed that this would not be the case.

Romanian President Traian Basescu will visit Serbia on Tuesday, where he will confer with top government officials. During his visit, Basescu is scheduled to meet with Serbian President Boris Tadić, the president’s press service released in a statement. The two countries’ delegations should confer after a closed-door meeting between the …

Georgia now expects the results of the negotiations on the terms of Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Georgian President’s spokesperson Manana Manjgaladze said at a regular briefing on Tuesday. “During yesterday’s meeting between Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey and Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili, it was announced that Russia …

The Hague Tribunal has convicted Vojislav Seselj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party, of contempt of court and sentenced him to one-and-a-half years prison for disclosing the identity of a protected witness during his trial for war crimes committed in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Rosen Plevneliev of the ruling conservative party in Bulgaria has won the presidential run-off with 54.8 per cent of votes. Ruling party , GERB candidate Rossen Plevneliev, has won Bulgaria’s 2011 elections, getting 54.8 per cent of votes in

The Bulgarian government has cancelled an official visit by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the last possible moment. A spokesperson for the Bulgarian foreign ministry said

A session of the Serbian parliament dedicated to Kosovo, previously scheduled for Wednesday, November 2, will be postponed for Friday, November 4. The reason is the government’s intention to accompany its report on the situation in the province

President and Foreign Minister of Switzerland Micheline Calmy-Rey will today arrive in Georgia to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. The two presidents will discuss the technical issues on terms of Russia’s accession to WTO in Batumi.

The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders have held “positive, productive and vigorous” discussions during the first of two days of talks between the leaders and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a senior United Nations envoy said tonight. Speaking at Manhasset, outside New York, where the talks began this morning, the Secretary-General’s …

An initial hearing has concluded against Mevlid Jasarevic, who opened fire on the US embassy in Sarajevo last Friday. The hearing on Sunday is the first step in the prosecution of Jasarevic, who opened fire on