Romania is among the EU members in favour of a tax and budget pact, but it has to change the constitution to meet the challenges. Nine of the ten EU states that are not members of the single currency area – Romania amnong them – have indicated their willingness to …

Serbia’s former European integration minister Bozidar Djelic, who stepped down on Friday, has raised doubts over whether Belgrade would get EU candidacy status by a new deadline next March. “If you’re asking me if the candidacy status is a sure thing in March, the answer is no,” Djelic said. Djelic …

Serbia’s future is in the EU and it is only for the EU to be able to solve the Kosovo issue, said Serbian President Boris Tadic. In Tadic’s words, the government’s policy towards Kosovo is not rigid but rather winning and his party will run at the elections following this …

Romanian President Traian Basescu has said the EU needs to send positive signals to Turkey, stressing that the EU candidate country brings an important contribution to the EU’s wider neighborhood, including the Middle East and North Africa. “Turkey brings an important contribution and is an important actor in the union’s …

Bulgaria’s outgoing President Georgi Parvanov called for a debate in his country about Friday’s EU Council decisions regarding the fiscal discipline in the bloc. Parvanov declared he was

MEPs from the joint EU-Albania Stabilization and Association Committee warned Tirana on Friday to speed up reforms or risk missing out on the integration process. “Albania could miss the train heading toward the EU,” Slovak MEP Eduard Kukan said in a meeting in Tirana with Albania opposition and government MPs.

Bozidar Djelic, Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, resigned from the post after Brussels delayed the decision over the country’s EU bid. Djelic told reporters in Brussels that Friday’s decision of the European Council to examine Serbia’s candidacy bid in March “was not what Serbia had expected.”

Despite strong pressure from other EU countries, the Netherlands has refused to agree to Bulgaria and Romania joining the open border Schengen zone. The two countries have not still done enough to combat corruption and organized crime, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said. The EU will consider the question again …

A decision by the European Union on whether to grant Serbia candidate status will be taken by EU foreign ministers in February, EU president Herman Van Rompuy said Friday. 

Greece has called on the Macedonian government to remain dedicated to the negotiations about the name dispute.