European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said that the EU sees Azerbaijan as a strategic partner in the region. His statement was announced by the head of the EU office in Azerbaijan Roland Kobia during the 19th International Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference in Baku. “With a strong pipeline …

Georgia and the EU started communication on a visa-free regime on June 4. 8 EU countries voiced on November 2011 the intention to start the negotiations on visa-free regime and free trade with Georgia. The agreement on “Simplification of visa issuance procedures” in a single package with the agreement on …

The European Commission adopted on 27 May proposals to allow Albanian and Bosnian citizens to travel to Schengen area without visas, if the two countries satisfy a number of requirements. “I know how much visa-free travel means to the people

EULEX will start to exhume a possible mass grave in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, after two bodies were found  by local residents during construction works. A team of EULEX experts and war

Romania’s newly appointed Justice Minister Titus Corlatean has stated that EU’s Co-operation and Verification Mechanism for his country should be reviewed later this year. Five years after Romania’s accession to the European Union, it should be

The Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, and his Georgian counterpart, Miheil Saakashvili, met during the NATO summit in Chicago and agreed to exchange official visits in near future. The two discussed a few ‘common grounds’.

Germany and France pledged Monday to do whatever was needed to keep Greece in the eurozone, as political turmoil in the debt-wracked country threatens to force it out of the club. “We agreed that we have to do everything to keep Greece in the euro club,” Schaeuble told a joint …

Serbia will hold second-round of elections for the new head of state on Sunday, May 20. Two candidates will confront each other – Democratic Party (DS)-led coalition candidate Boris Tadic and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)-led coalition candidate Tomislav Nikolic. Tadic, who won 25.31 percent or 989,454 votes in the first round, …

On May 18 a tripartite meeting of the Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Qatar and Turkey will take place in Varna, Bulgaria. Varna will welcome Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Qatar’s Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani who is already on a two-day visit to Bulgaria. After …

Greek former prime minister Lucas Papademos said on Thursday that rejecting the tough terms of EU-IMF bailout would be “disastrous”. “Any modification…must be pursued in a spirit of consensus and with the full agreement of European peers,” Papademos said in an open letter posted on the prime minister’s website. “A …