Serbian President Boris Tadić said that he hoped the EU would set a date for the beginning of accession negotiations for early 2012. According to him, Serbia is not asking for a special treatment from the EU and expects to be treated exactly as Croatia, which obtained the EU candidate …

Serbian President Boris Tadić reiterated on Tuesday that Serbia was seeking and expected to be given a date for the start of accession talks with the European Union. “As far as our progress toward the EU is concerned, we are seeking and expecting a date for the start of talks …

At a ministerial meeting on the project of Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnecter (AGRI) in Bucharest representatives of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary expressed full support for AGRI, which envisages supply of the Caspian liquefied gas through the Black Sea coast of Georgia to Eastern Europe.

Serbian President Boris Tadić says the Serbian authorities arrested Hague indictee Ratko Mladić the moment they discovered him. He said that the remaining Hague fugitive, Goran Hadžić, will soon be arrested “in the next few weeks, a month, the year ahead of us”.

Serbian President Boris Tadić will miss the June 2 celebrations in Rome to mark the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. He said that decision came because Kosovo’s president, Atifeta Jahjaga, was invited.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited Romania on Monday and said that Italy supports Romania’s bid to join the Schengen Area. “We wanted Romania to join the EU with all our heart and we are now siding with you again for acquiring full-scale EU membership,” said the Italian premier, making

Thousands of supporters are protesting the arrest of Ratko Mladic. The Tuesday’s gathering is the biggest demonstration so far in Bosnia in support of Mladic, arrested last week in Serbia after 16 years on the run. Gathered in Banja Luka, the crowd chanted Mladic’s name, and carried his picture alongside …

The arrest of Ratko Mladic shifts the spotlight to Goran Hadzic, who is now the most wanted man in the Balkans. Serbian Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric said that search for Hadzic is now the country’s priority, explaining that Serbia will not stop until Goran Hadzic is captured.

Ukraine hopes for a breakthrough in the Transnistria settlement process in 2011 and for resumption of official negotiations in 5+2 format, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Constantin Grishenko stated at the session of profiled Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe being held in the Ukrainian …

The extradition of Ratko Mladić to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will last at least two and maximum four days, according to Serbian government’s coordinator for public relations