The EU Monitoring Mission will monitor the Georgian military bases, which will further increase the transparency of the Georgian Defense Ministry. A new memorandum signed between the ministry and the EU Monitoring Mission provides this, the Georgian Defense Ministry said.

Bulgaria is a state based on the rule of law and cannot afford to favor certain investors, no matter whether Russian or from elsewhere, said Bulgarian foreign affairs minister Nikolay Mladenov in an interview for Bulgarian Nova TV Sunday evening.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to arrive in at 10.00 [local time]. She will visit Tbilisi following her Yerevan visit. According to the U.S. Embassy, Clinton will hold the first meeting at 10.30 in the National Library with women leaders. Then, Clinton will visit the Georgian presidential …

The European Union Council President Herman van Rompuy kicks off a mini tour of the Western Balkans on Monday. The EU’s first permanent president will visit Ljubljana for talks with Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor, and later he will be heading to Zagreb for talks with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic. …

EU, KFOR and Serbian officials have condemned the tossing of a hand grenade during a Serb protest in the divided northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Friday (July 2nd), which killed one man and injured 11 other people. President Boris Tadic called an emergency meeting of the

The IMF announced on Saturday (July 3rd) it has agreed to extend a 913.2m-euro tranche of Romania’s 13.6 billion-euro anti-crisis loan. The Fund’s Board of Directors decided to extend the money after reviewing Romania’s implementation of its anti-crisis programme, which was approved in May 2009. The IMF says the government …

Malta has ratified Serbia’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic announced on Friday (July 2nd), making Malta the second country after Spain to do so. According to an earlier announcement, Italy has started the ratification process, while Austria, Denmark, Finland and Poland plan to launch …

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Ukrainian leaders Friday that the door to membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance remains open. Mrs. Clinton alluded to the newly elected Ukrainian government’s closer alignment to Moscow and

President of Cyprus Dimitris Hristofyas described as a historic challenge the Cypriot EU Presidency in the second half of 2012. Cyprus officially for the first time will take over the six-month rotating EU Presidency in July

Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović requested from EULEX to protect Serbs in the province and find and punish those who attacked a rally in Kosovska Mitrovica. “The bomb attack on Serbs gathered on the protest on the occasion of opening the office of the so-called Kosovo government in northern Kosovska …