Greece on Tuesday named the vice minister for finance Philippos Sachinidis to become the new finance minister. Sachinidis, who is 49, replaces Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos who stepped down on Monday after taking over the socialist Pasok party. Greece on March 12 completed a landmark exchange with private investors for …

Bulgaria and Romania have been holding talks about the delimitation of the Black Sea areas for more than 20 years, the spokesperson for the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced. The latest round (17th) was held in December 2011 in Sofia, with the next round

On Tuesday, Seselj stated during his closing arguments that Serbs were not the aggressors, since they had only defended their land. “Serbs were not aggressors, and I did not encourage anyone to commit

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic will visit Brussels on Thursday and Friday. Within the sidelines of the visit Jeremic will take part in informal meeting of the EU and Western Balkans Foreign Ministers.

OSCE PA President Petros Efthymiou applauded the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova for electing a national president after a more than two and half year political stalemate in Chisinau. “We are pleased that a president has been elected,” said Efthymiou, who led the OSCE election

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the Bulgarian government delegation he heads arrived in Ankara. PM Borisov was welcomed by Bulgarian Ambassador to Ankara, Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism and Mayor of Ankara. After arrival, the Bulgarian prime minister and his delegation will visit the grave of Mustafa Kemal …

On Wednesday in Zvecani, local elections will be discussed during the sitting of the four Serbian municipalities in North Kosovo. On Friday the four municipalities are expected to file a petition with 49,000 signatories to Serbian President Boris Tadic asking Belgrade to organise elections in Kosovo. The parliamentary committee on …

Vojislav Seselj will today continue his closing argument before the Hague Tribunal, where he is on trial for war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. Seselj’s closing argument was pushed last week from Monday and Tuesday to Wednesday and Thursday, after he underwent a second surgery when the defibrillator he …

In Moscow, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has met with Chairman of the Parliament of Moldova Marian Lupu. Yanukovych expressed his congratulations to the newly elected president of Moldova, Nicolae Timofti. The two discussed bilateral relations between the states.

The Georgian-U.S exercises being held on the Vaziani military base are not aimed against anyone, Georgian Deputy Defence Minister Nodar Kharshiladze said. This announcement was made after a statement made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called the exercises in Vaziani a “‘provocation”. Kharshiladze said that “it is our …