Britain has ratified Croatia’s accession treaty to the European Union, paving the way for Croatia to join the union after six years of tough negotiations.

Ivica Dačić and Hashim Thaci, who head the governments in Belgrade and Priština, are once again meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. They are discussing the concrete steps to implement the Brussels agreement, which they initialed on April 19.

Westerwelle said that if tangible results are achieved in the implementation of the Belgrade-Pristina deal, he could send a positive signal to his country’s parliament as it deliberates over whether to recommend granting a start date for EU accession talks with Serbia. “Serbia can do good for Europe, and Europe …

After winning adulation across Mali for a five-month military offensive that crushed Al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg rebels.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria’s civil war but had no plans to resign. “To resign would be to flee,” he said on Saturday when asked if

The governments of Bulgaria and Turkey will start this week negotiations for an agreement regarding the freight traffic between the two countries, said Bulgarian Minister of Transport Kristian Krastev Sunday. Krastev will meet Turkish counterpart Binali

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić on Monday in Belgrade met with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, and the two held a news conference afterwards. The German foreign said that he could not prejudge the decision

Germany should understand that it is no use trying to blackmail us into slitting our wrists or committing suicide, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić says. He added that Serbia would not “give Kosovo away”.

Aiming to build up a permanent fleet in the region, Russia has sent warships from its Pacific Fleet to the Mediterranean for the first time in decades.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang offered a four-point proposal on boosting the country’s cooperation with Greece on Thursday. The proposal was raised by Li during his talks with his visiting