The negotiations between teams of Belgrade and Priština were set to continue on Tuesday in Brussels, with regional representation of Kosovo on the agenda. However today’s meeting, that was set to start at 10:00 CET, has

Eurozone finance ministers on Tuesday reached an agreement on a second bailout for Greece, after 13 hours of talks held in Brussels. In return for loans worth more than EUR 130bn, Greece will have to

Danish Minister for European Affairs Nicolai Wammen expressed hope on Monday that Serbia will be granted EU candidate status on March 1. He told reporters that the decision will be based on Serbia’s achievements “and not on any letters”.

An envoy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will on Monday start his visit to Serbia, it has been confirmed by the Russian embassy in Belgrade. The embassy said that Dolgov, the MFA’s human rights, democracy and rule of law emissary, will spend three days in Serbia. Dolgov will …

Numbers of prosecuted war crimes in Croatia are “worryingly low”, claims Croatian state prosecutor Mladen Bajic. Only 109 out of a total of 490 war crimes in Croatia have been entirely prosecuted, Bajic

The UN mediator in the “name” dispute between Macedonia and Greece, Matthew Nimetz, kicks off his two-day visit to Skopje on Monday to examine its commitment to solving the long-standing issue. After his stay in Skopje, Nimetz heads to Athens to inspect the Greeks side.

EU Commission’s decision to interrupt funding for a programme highlights Romania’s continuing problems with absorbing European Union funds. The European Commission is to block payments worth 3.5 billion euro to Romania from the Human Resources funding line, after the European Commission report in 2011 found irregularities in the operation of …

EU politicians said a decision would probably be made on Monday about further European aid to struggling Greece. Martin Kotthaus, a German Finance Ministry spokesman told a regular government

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has met with Croatian Parliament Speaker Boris Sprem on Friday, announced the press service of the President’s Office. Boris Sprem is visiting Bulgaria on the occasion of

Serbia’s chief negotiator in the dialogue with Pristina, Borislav Stefanovic, called the referendum in four Serbian municipalities in North Kosovo pointless. In Stefanovic’s words, the referendum will not bring any real result, since it is anti-constitutional and will worsen Belgrade’s position in the negotiations. “It [the referendum] will not leave …