Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, on Monday said if NATO membership for Bosnia becomes imminent, he will call a referendum in the entity to see if Serbs want to join the alliance.

Bulgaria has registered a significant progress and should really enter the Schengen Agreement, according to Margherita Boniver, chair of the Italian parliamentary committee on Schengen and immigration issues. “As you know, Italy has never had any objections

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has repeated his belief that Greece can recover from the crisis and said that Brussels could help Athens make progress «within weeks» on

UN mediator in the Greek-Macedonian name dispute, Matthew Nimetz, is ready with a new proposal envisaging the name issue to be solved at different stages. Nimetz’s new proposal envisages for Macedonia to

The Bulgarian cabinet approved an agreement between Nabucco Gas Pipeline Bulgaria EOOD and Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH (NIC) on Tuesday for the further implementation of the gas pipeline project. The agreement between Nabucco consortium

Serbia’s government has decided to exclude its former province of Kosovo from the next elections. “The EU course has prevailed,” a cabinet source said, referring

Roads leading to Zubin Potok are open to traffic again as of noon on Monday, after being blocked for more than two hours earlier in the day. Local Serbs guarding the barricade in Zupče

Euro zone finance ministers will sign off on a second bailout package for Greece today. The bloc’s original problem debtor, Greece, swapped its privately held bonds over the

U.S. Republican Senator Richard Lugar has introduced the NATO Enlargement Bill, calling on President Obama to provide “a clear roadmap” for the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia, and Montenegro to NATO at the Chicago summit in late May.

The Brussels-Skopje dialogue is not intended at bypassing Greece’s continued blockade of the country’s EU membership talks but at keeping alive the momentum for reform until the problem with Greece is solved. The first talks start this Thursday in Skopje between teams led by the EU’s enlargement commissioner, Stefan Fuele, …