Albania’s opposition Socialist Party is expected to stage a major rally in Tirana on Friday through to Sunday, calling for a recount of the ballots from the 28 June parliamentary elections, which it considered to have been marred by fraud. The protest, which is expected to begin on Friday afternoon …

At its ordinary working meeting held on Wednesday afternoon, the Moldovan Government decided to revoke home a number of its Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

European Commission (EC) Vice-President Jacques Barrot says Serbia has fulfilled all conditions for visa liberalization. As of December 19, its citizens should be able to travel freely in the Schengen space, said this EC official in charge of justice, freedom and security.

The crime in the town of Vukovar in 1991 was premeditated, just like in Srebrenica, Croatian President Stjepan Mesić said yesterday. Croatia is marking Nov. 18 as Vukovar Victims Remembrance Day. Mesić went on to say: “I simply cannot understand how wounded civilians could have been taken out of the …

Moldovan PM Vlad Filat says that up to 1.2 million Moldovans –more than one-quarter of the population – will be able to travel easily to EU-member Romania. This will come due to an agreement he signed in Bucharest last week.

Bulgaria will receive 75 million euros from the 2010 EU budget, part of the recently approved 300 million euros in further compensation for the early shutdown of two nuclear reactors at the Kozloduy power plant, Bulgarian media said.

Montenegrin minority in Albania urged the authorities to establish schools where children can study in their native language, local media reported.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry sent a protest note to the Russian Foreign Ministry. “The ministry invited Swiss Deputy Ambassador Ms. Schleicher and gave her a notification to pass to the Russian side to protest the visits of Russian Federation Security Council Secretary Deputy Yuriy Zubakov and Russian ministerial delegation representatives …

The next round of Georgian-South Ossetian negotiations to prevent tensions in the Caucasus failed. The meeting originally scheduled for Nov. 19 was canceled by the South Ossetian side, Georgian officials reported. 

The ongoing political crisis in Romania has reached a new high point, just days before the November 22 presidential elections. It is becoming increasingly evident that what is at stake is a bitter struggle between rival cliques within the ruling elite over power, influence and money. The country has been …