The new European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Philippe Lefort, will be in Armenia on 7 September as part of his first visit to the region. During his stay in Yerevan, Ambassador Lefort is expected to meet the President of the …

Hopes are high that Belgrade and Pristina will on Friday accept an EU-worded compromise formula on the vexed issue of Kosovo custom stamps. Kosovo and Serbia are to get back to the negotiation table on Friday in the sixth round of EU-mediated talks.

The two Balkan countries on Thursday in Sofia signed a Euro-Atlantic cooperation memorandum in which they agreed to put past feuds behind them. 

The former head of the EU delegation in Skopje has today taken up his new post as EU Special Representative, EUSR, for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Peter Sorensen, a Dane with more than 15 years’ experience in the Western Balkan region, is one of just eight EUSR’s operating in the

Stefan Füle, European Commissioner for Expansion, has called on Montenegro’s political elite to reach an agreement on election law, a minimum requirement for Montenegro to receive a date for EU accession negotiations. The European Commissioner again called on the government and opposition to reach agreement on adoption of the election …

Serbian President Boris Tadić will hold separate meetings with his Croatian, Montenegrin and Macedonian counterparts in Belgrade on Thursday. The meetings will be held ahead of the 9th UNESCO summit of Southeast European heads of state.

Belgrade negotiating team head Borislav Stefanović has spoken to northern Kosovo Serb representatives about the current situation in the province. They talked about political and security situation and about further steps, especially about the upcoming dialogue in Brussels. “At the same time we talked about possibilities to solve the crisis …

Serbian President Boris Tadić says that Serbia supports the actions of KFOR and EULEX in the north of Kosovo exclusively if they are aimed at combating crime. Another condition would be for the operation to be based on the “status-neutral mandate of the international missions”.

Bulgarian Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov will meet with Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Popovski on September 1, the press office of the ministry announced.

Bulgaria’s government passed a draft bill for a Memorandum for cooperation in the field of European and Euro-Atlantic integration between Bulgaria and Macedonia, the press