French leader Nicholas Sarkozy visited Armenia and called on Turkey to recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians as genocide, hopefully during his tenure as president. “If a big country like Turkey accepts the dark pages of its history…. Armenia and France will see it as a real step forward,” Sarkozy …

The Croatian government in Zagreb on did not back down from the draft law on the annulment of indictments issued in Serbia. Jadranka Kosor’s cabinet even proposed a declaration alongside this regulation claiming that

Kairgeldy Kabyldin, president of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas company KazMunaiGas discussed increasing Kazakh energy exports to Europe with Bulgarian Energy Minister Traycho Traykov during the latter’s visit to the Kazakh capital Astana.

Serbian President Boris Tadić has stated that “at this moment South-East European countries have no other choice but to continue with their EU integration”. Speaking in the town of Aranđelovac in central Serbia on Thursday, he noted that in that process, they have to at the same time rely on …

Romania resolutely supports the EU and NATO integration of Macedonia, stated Romanian President Traian Basescu after meeting Macedonian counterpart George Ivanov in Bucharest. Ivanov is on a two-day official visit to Romania in a bid

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is meeting and will request an urgent investigation of the Jarinje incident. ‘Political Situation in the Balkans’ that will be discussed by PACE today expresses concern over the situation in the region and requests that an objective investigation

Moldova’s Prime Minister Vlad Filat says the country sees its place in the European Union and isn’t attracted to the “Eurasian Union” envisaged by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Filat said that his country was European “through its geography, history, and culture” and that Moldovans

Both the EU and NATO have denounced the elections in the breakaway region of Abkhazia in Georgia that were held on 26 August. The acting president, a pro-Russian businessman Alexander Ankvab, was elected president with more than 54% of votes and immediately confirmed commitment to further strengthening Russian-Abkhazian relations.

The head of the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, Xavier de Marnhac, announced on Wednesday that EULEX prosecutors will soon extend their probe on allegations of organ trafficking by the Kosovo Liberation Army in Albania. “As you know we have formed a team which will probe Marty’s allegations …

Macedonian and Montenegrin ministers of justice Blerim Bexheti and Dusko Markovic have signed an extradition agreement about nationals with double citizenship convicted of serious crimes. The document was inked during the two-day ministerial visit EU-Western Balkans in Ohrid.