Georgian Deputy Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze discussed strengthening Georgian-French ties with French National Assembly members Roland Blum and Christian Batay during their visit to the country. Blum and Batay will study the situation in Georgia and present a report to their colleagues, Baramidze said at a joint press conference after …

The Bulgarian nationalist party VMRO is making formal steps to call a referendum on Turkey’s EU accession. On Friday, the party will formally notify the Parliament on its intention to start collecting signatures in order to request the holding of a national referendum, as required by law.

Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland praised the reforms implemented in Serbia during a visit to the country Wednesday (April 14th). He announced that the CoE’s Committee of Ministers has decided to

Slovenia’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Milan Balazic says Slovenia has no more reservations concerning the opening and closing of negotiation chapters in Croatia’s accession talks with the EU.

The government announced plans Wednesday to allocate around 4m euros for implementation of a strategy to put northern Kosovo under the control of Pristina rather than Belgrade-backed parallel structures.

The text`s reconstitution of the Declaration of Independence is delayed. The reason is that the parliament has not adopted any legal framework to conduct such procedures. Another reason is that on April 17th, the day when the extraordinary parliamentary meeting was scheduled, many officials will leave to Warsaw to attend …

NATO’s secretary-general has reiterated his call for closer cooperation with Russia on the issue of the European missile defense. “Together NATO and Russia should explore cooperation on missile defense – a security roof that will give real security to our people,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a video address posted …

The reforms for the country’s EU accession have been seriously delayed, which is dangerous for the future of the country, said Radmila Sekerinska, chairperson of the Macedonian National Council for European Integration and MP from the oppositional Social Democratic Union for Integration (SDSM).

Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov will meet Thursday with Branko Crvenkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia in the period 2004-2009, the President’s press secretariat informed. The meeting will take place at 11:00 a.m. local time.

Ukrainian politicians say that Romanian would have territorial pretention upon Maican island, an element of the Ukrainian border. “Slowly, without a war declaration, our neighbor Romania is trying to “bite””, writes Segodnea, which accuses that “a year ago Romania has sued Ukraine for a couple tens of square kilometer on …