Balkan News

Judges of Karadzic trial visit Srebrenica sites to gather information

Four judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), who are in charge of the trial of Radovan Karadzic, started on Tuesday tour of the Srebrenica sites which will last for 5 days. The judges, who are from Trinidad, South Korea, Italy and Great Britain, are accompanied …

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Montenegro and Bosnia to sign border and dual citizenship agreement

Montenegrin President, Filip Vujanovic, announced that his country will sign agreements on border and dual citizenship with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The President of Montenegro met his Bosnian counterpart on Sunday at UNESCO’s Summit of Heads of State in South East Europe, held in Mostar (the southwest of Bosnia). After this …

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Brussels to discuss visa-free regime with Georgia

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 …

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Cyprus could ask for EU bailout by June 30

Cyprus’ central bank chief, Panicos Demetriades, announced that it’s very possible to be in situation to ask for an EU bailout agreement to help rescue its banking sector, adding that “it is hard to see where (the money) is coming from, if not Europe.”

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Serbia held meeting on recent Kosovo events

Serbian President together with several ministers held a meeting to discuss the latest events between from northern Kosovo between Serbs and NATO peacekeepers. The meeting was held on Friday, right after KFOR started to dismantle the Serb barricades near Zvecan, a Serb-run area in northern Kosovo. Serbia’s Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac, …

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European parliament started debate on strategic revision for EULEX

The European Parliament started on Thursday a debate on strategic revision of EULEX’s activity. The revision seeks to reduce the number of EULEX members and to switch the missions focus from police to judicial work. EULEX currently has more than 1,300 international police officers, prosecutors and judges.

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Montenegro to open embassy in Kosovo

Montenegro announced on Thursday that it had decided to open an embassy in Kosovo. The Montenegrin government’s said the decision to open the embassy “confirms that good relations with neighbours and development of regional cooperation represent a lasting goal, stimulating progress in the countries of the region when it comes …

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