Moldova’s Prime Minister Vlad Filat will pay an official visit to Sofia on Thursday. He is set to meet with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and President Rosen Plevneliev. The visit is just a week after Moldova restored centralized funding for the Bulgarian community in Taraclia, a move that was praised …

NATO should send a message to Western Balkans that the door is still open. This would be a strong motivation for countries to reform, said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov in Brussels, where he met alliance’s foreign and defence ministers. Mladenov gave Bosnia as an example, saying that it achieved …

EC President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday that the total aid to Greece will be 380 billion euros. “We have put together a very ambitious programme of

Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday that Moscow will not bow to Western pressure and abandon its peacekeeping mission in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transdnestr. “We see no grounds for reviewing our peacekeeping mission,” Rogozin said, adding that the Russian military presence is a condition for regional security. “The mission will …

Hashim Thaci called for calm after the murder of five Macedonian men in Skopje last week. Rumours that the men were killed by Albanians raised the tension, but the police say there is no evidence to support the claims. Thaci added that both Albanians and Macedonians need to keep the country …

Bosnian FM Zlatko Lagumdzija said on Monday that he hopes Bosnia would join NATO by 2014, marking a hundred years since World War I started in Sarajevo. The ruling party in the Republika Srpska reacted on Tuesday saying that the FM was spreading his own personal views rather than the …

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman started a visit to Cyprus for 3 days. He will discuss on Monday energy issues with authorities on the Greek side. The Israeli minister will meet Greek Cypriot leader Dimitris Hristofias, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Neoklis Sylikiotis and Greek Cypriot political party leaders.

Serbia will not hold local elections in Kosovo, the country’s Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic announced. The UNMIK refused to organize local elections in Kosovo. The Serbs in Kosovo will vote for president and MPs. “We received a negative response from UNMIK and we do not want to violate Resolution …

Cyprus must avoid any provocations that could risk the region’s stability amid the intention to conduct energy exploration, Washington announced before of the U.N. secretary-general’s decision on the future of Cypriot reunification talks.

Bulgaria’s Vice President Margarita Popova visited the town of Bosilegrad in Serbia, which is populated by ethnic Bulgarians. She said on Sunday (Bulgarian Orthodox Easter Day) at the Bulgarian Cultural and Information Center in Bosilegrad: “Serbia will become a member of the EU but there is no way this could …