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United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague says the new British government firmly supports the EU integration prospects of Turkey and the Western Balkans, the Spanish daily El Pais reported on Tuesday (May 18th). Hague, who was in Spain to attend the
Read More »EC requests clarifications from Albania
The European Commission (EC) has asked Tirana to answer 170 additional questions, to supplement the questionnaire submitted last month when Albania applied for candidate country status. Integrations Minister Majlinda Bregu said on Tuesday (May 18th) that Albania will send “clarifications” regarding issues raised by the Commission. According to media reports, …
Read More »Kosovo receives invitation to Sarajevo conference
The government has received an official invitation to attend the EU-Western Balkans conference in Sarajevo next month, Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuci said on Tuesday (May 18th). Kosovo will be on equal footing with other participating countries, with an equal right to express its opinion on regional developments and European
Read More »Croatian panel reaches consensus on constitutional amendments
The parliamentary committee on the constitution has agreed on almost all proposed amendments, the sole exception being the controversial issue of the expatriate vote, committee chairman Vladimir Seks said on Tuesday (May 18th). That one amendment has been the subject of lengthy negotiations between the ruling Croatian Democratic Union and …
Read More »Bulgarian MEPs discuss with European Enlargement Commissioner challenges before Macedonia’s European integration
At the initiative of the MEP from the Group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Evgeni Kirilov, Bulgarian MEPs (representatives of all political parties – Bulgarian Socialist Party, Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, Blue Coalition, National Movement for Stability and Progress, Movement for Rights
Read More »Serbia: Probe of Raska Mass Grave Site to Begin
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office has called for an investigation to begin at a mass grave site in the southwestern Serbian town of Raska. Ten days ago Serbia announced that with the help of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, it had uncovered a mass grave …
Read More »Serbia hands over Mladic diaries to Hague
Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal say Serbia has sent the court a bundle of diaries written by Bosnian Serb wartime military commander General Ratko Mladic. They have filed a motion seeking to have the notebooks included as evidence in the case against Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime …
Read More »Macedonia, Germany to hold security conference
The conference cycle titled, “Ohrid talks“, which represent the continual bilateral meetings for exchange of opinions and experiences between representatives of Interior Ministries from Republic of Macedonia and German province of Brandenburg, is due to begin on Wednesday in Ohrid.
Read More »ICTY to Deliver Final Verdict on Boskoski, Tarculovski
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, on Wednesday is set to deliver the final verdict in the case of former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskoski and police officer Johan Tarculovski. Boskoski and Tarculovski are the only people from Macedonia to be indicted by the UN war crimes …
Read More »Bulgarian Nationalists Closer to Referendum on Turkey EU Accession
The Bulgarian nationalist party VMRO and its partner cable TV channel SKAT have collected 200 000 signatures in support of their demand for a nation-wide referendum on Turkey’s EU accession. The VMRO press center announced Tuesday that the signatures were collected in one month, and that the initiative of the …
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