Balkan News

Kosovo’s Integrations Minister Besim Beqaj is optimistic that Kosovo will be offered a roadmap leading to eventual visa-free travel with the EU. “I have received confirmation that an official dialogue will start soon and we will get the questionnaire,” Beqaj was quoted by media as saying on Sunday (May 30th). …

Soon, Albanian citizens will need only an electronic ID card to travel to neighbouring Kosovo, according to an agreement effective on Tuesday (June 1st), for the tourist season and possibly beyond. A reciprocal summer agreement for Kosovo citizens has been in effect in Albania for years.

Germany is one of the biggest opponents to further enlargement of the EU onto the West Balkans. Its stance towards the Balkans shall be also demonstrated at the forthcoming meeting in

Since Bosnia and Herzegovina has not met the conditions for extending the standby agreement, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will postpone the agreed sum of EUR 38 million.

Balkan leaders agreed at a meeting in Sarajevo on Saturday that cooperation and dialogue are two of the most important conditions for progress in the region. At the 10th anniversary celebration of the Igman Initiative, a network dedicated to normalising relations in the region, the presidents of Bosnia and

UN war crimes tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz met on Friday (May 28th) with Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor to discuss Croatia’s level of co-operation with The Hague. He urged the country to do more to boost the tribunal’s investigations, reiterating that Croatia’s co-operation is an essential

The government decided on Friday (May 28th) to allow EU citizens, as well as those of Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, to enter Serbia and travel around the country without a passport this summer, relying instead on an identity card. The announcement, made at a joint press conference in Belgrade by …

A two-day conference on regional stability and NATO integration begins today in Bitola, local media reported on Friday. The event will focus on developing a common trans-Atlantic vision and the future prospects of the Balkans, Macedonia’s defence ministry said on its website. Defence ministers and top defence officials from 11 …

A parliamentary investigation must be conducted in Albania to pave the way for eventual EU integration, the world organisation, Socialist International (SI), said on Saturday (May 29th) in Tirana. SI Secretary-General Luis Ayala of Chile stressed that the ongoing political stalemate is the direct result of a lack of transparency …

The government of Kosovo signed an agreement for its very first International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan on Thursday. Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Thaci at a news conference in Pristina said the terms of