Yearly Archives: 2012

Greek socialists want to postpone early parliamentary elections

Greek socialists want to postpone the early parliamentary elections because of the NATO summit in Chicago, where Skopje’s accession in the Alliance will be one of the topics of the agenda. PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos said that the elections, which are set for May , should be postponed to June, …

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EP to discuss resolutions on Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro

European Parliament (EP) MPs will discuss on Wednesday resolutions on Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro. The resolutions (already been adopted as drafts by the EP Foreign Affairs Committee), are built using reports sent by rapporteurs to Committee members who made some amendments. The EU praised Belgrade for the efforts to speed …

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Bosnia hopes to make progress towards NATO at May summit

Bosnia hopes to formally join Nato’s membership action plan during its May summit, a penultimate step to joining the alliance. Bosnian Defence Minister Muhamed Ibrahimovic said “We hope that during the Chicago summit, Bosnia-Hercegovina will join the membership action plan and that in September it will launch its first annual …

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Moldovan President says he speaks Romanian and not Moldovan

The newly elected President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti said on TV recently that he speaks Romanian and not Moldovan. “I speak in Romanian. I am not a jurist and thus I call a spade a spade. The Constitution reads that national language is Moldovan. But the Academy of Science says …

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Head of Greek Communist Party wants the country to leave both the EU and Eurozone

On Monday night, the head of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), Aleka Papariga, said on a local TV station that Greece needs to leave both the Eurozone and the European Union. Papariga said that “developments in Greece will change the dynamic of our ties abroad,” stressing that the country would …

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Belgium is the 25th EU member that ratifies SAA with Serbia

Belgium has ratified the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between Serbia and the EU. The SAA is the framework for contractual relations between the EU and countries of the Western Balkans. The ratification was completed on March 20. Romania and Lithuania are the only EU members of the 27 which …

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