It is too early for Bulgaria and Romania to join Schengen, the Finnish Ambassador to Romania, Ulla Marianna Vaisto, has declared. Finland wants to see more progress in the anti-corruption fight undergone by the two states. ” The Schengen file will be sorted out”, the Finnish diplomat assured.

A National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) delegation headed by vice chairman Chen Kuiyuan arrived Friday (23 September) for a good-will visit to Romania. Romanian Senate President Mircea Geoana met Monday with Chen Kuiyuan, a senior official of China’s top political advisory body.

The Greek prime minister said Tuesday that Athens would live up to the commitments that it has made to its international creditors as he urged Europe to pull together to take the steps needed to stem a potentially disastrous escalation in the debt crisis. Speaking later before the same group …

The Croatian government will not drop the genocide lawsuit launched against Serbia, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said in Vukovar on Saturday 24 September. Kosor said that “such a decision can only be passed by the government and the Croatian cabinet will not do this.”

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called his Turkish counterpart Monday to discuss the dispute about gas drilling in the Mediterranean between Turkey and Cyprus, a Turkish official announced. “Both parties stressed their

Despite the unwillingness of the authorities in Pristina to discuss the situation in North Kosovo and Jarinje and Brnjak checkpoints in the next round of talks, Serbian officials are set to put the two issues on the agenda of the dialog. It is expected Serbia’s chief negotiator Borislav Stefanovic will …

The new round of negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina are expected to take place in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday. Telecommunications, energy and Kosovo’s participation in regional meetings and initiatives will be up for discussion. The sources refuse to say whether the agenda will include a discussion of the situation …

Bosnia’s political leaders were to meet on Monday in a bid to resolve the most serious post-war crisis in the country that still has no government almost a year after general elections. After several failed attempts to form a central government in the country divided along ethnic lines into two …

Turkey’s sanctions against Syrian government mainly target bilateral economic, military, political and banking ties in order not to effect its people. Turkey’s sanctions against Syria, which will likely be announced in early October, will be as comprehensive as possible and will be shaped so as not to hurt the country’s …

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is planning on visiting Belgrade for the second time this year, daily Danas has learned from top Serbian officials. The Russian prime minister officially visited Serbia on March 23, when he spoke to Serbian