Balkan News

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is to leave for an official visit to Croatia on April 27, the government’s press office informed. Borisov’s agenda includes meeting with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Parliament Chairperson Luka Bebic.

The EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, which has authority over justice, police and customs, could stay in Kosovo until 2014. The mandate is two years, but EULEX will leave Kosovo once the government is experienced enough to guarantee the rule of law for all its citizens, EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic …

A trilateral summit of Serbia, Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) takes place on Tuesday (April 26th) in Karadjordjevo. President Boris Tadic, his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and members of BiH tripartite presidency — Nebojsa Radmanovic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic — will discuss co-operation among their countries.

The EU is ready to help find a way out of the situation created when Republika Srpska’s (RS) parliament decided recently to call a referendum on High Representative-imposed laws, particularly on the BiH Court and

The European Parliament (EP) is expected to send a group of observers to monitor the May 8th local elections, media reported on Sunday (April 24th). The observers will come as an independent group to join other international teams monitoring the process. The presence of observers was requested by Prime Minister …

Edita Tahiri, Kosovo’s chief negotiator in the dialogue with Serbia, is down playing any possibility of Kosovo’s division being a future subject of negotiations. Officials in Serbia have mentioned the possibility, stating Belgrade

European Commission (EC) is of the opinion that there is no need for early elections in Serbia. According to an unnamed source from Commissioner Štefan Füle’s cabinet, EC has communicated

The OSCE is urging Albania to limit the immunity of public officials by changing laws and the constitution. The organisation’s Ambassador to Tirana, Eugen Wollfarth, said on Tuesday (April 19th) that the “volunteer

The census process in Kosovo ended on Tuesday (April 19th), four days later than initially planned. The Bureau of Statistics decided last week to extend the headcount in seven municipalities and according to reports, there

Relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Macedonia are not at all marred by open political issues. Our duty is only to resume the cooperation, urged Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after meeting with his Macedonian host and counterpart Antonio Milososki on Wednesday in Ohrid.