CROATIA Croatian Justice Minister Ivan Simonovic has not given up on the extradition or imprisonment of suspected war criminal Dragan Vasiljkovic, the Croatian Times reports. Simonovic says he still believes that Vasiljkovic will be re-incarcerated or extradited to Croatia despite his seemingly imminent release from an Australian jail. The Croatian …

BiH Bosnia and Herzegovina has made no recent progress in its struggle against rampant corruption, the Bosnian branch of Transparency International, TI, reports. TI presented its findings at a Sarajevo press conference on Thursday. “Bosnia and Herzegovina has not achieved progress in implementing anti-corruption reforms and, unfortunately […] it is …

MOLDOVA The Constitutional Court of Moldova will consider on September 8 the Communist Party’s inquiry concerning whether or not the parliamentary majority acted in compliance with constitutional norms last Friday. According to the Court’s press service, reports concerning the MCP’s inquiry and its examination will be made by two CC …

MOLDOVA On Thursday, the Communists submitted corresponding documents to the Parliament Secretariat. MP Vladimir Turcan told Infotag the MCP faction consists of 48 lawmakers, who have elected Maria Postoiko, a former Deputy Speaker, as their faction chairwoman. Since the moment of the document filing with the Secretariat, the MCP faction …

SERBIA EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn says the EU Council of Ministers could soon take a decision on unfreezing the Interim Trade Agreement with Serbia. Speaking at a meeting of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Rehn said that Serbia was one step away from a surefire place on the …

SERBIA Besides the protocol on police cooperation, EULEX has drafted two more agreements on cooperation with Serbia in customs and justice, says a Priština daily. Quoting unnamed sources, daily Koha Ditore writes that the protocols on cooperation in the fields of customs and justice are due to be signed by …

SERBIA The Supreme Court will continue to hear Milorad Ulemek and Zvezdan Jovanović’s appeal against their conviction for the murder of late PM Zoran Đinđić today. The public part of the trial began yesterday in a courtroom at the Belgrade District Prison with a statement by Judge Bata Cvetković (presiding) …

UKRAINE Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday offered reassurances to Europe’s natural gas consumers, saying a recent agreement with the Kremlin on fuel deliveries had eliminated chances of another Russian gas blockade. ‘Ukraine and Russia are convinced, that this Christmas there will not be any of the traditional jokes, …

GEORGIA Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister, David Jalaganiya and Assistant to the Georgian honorary council in the Atlanta city, Scott Henwood held a meeting at the Georgian foreign Ministry. The meeting mulled cooperation between Georgia and the U.S state of Georgia, as well as the project on development of agrarian industry …

GEORGIA The next five-sided meeting on incident prevention will be held in the village of Ergneti in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone on September 3. The meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m., the head of the Analytical Department of the Georgian Interior Ministry, Shota Utiashvili, said. It is being held in …