Balkan News

Slovenia will unblock two chapters of Croatia’s accession talks with EU on Friday. The decision for de-blocking the chapters for fishing and living environment has been brought by the Board for European Affairs with votes of the coalition. Even though the opposition was against this decision, PM Borut Pahor said …

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is starting her visit to the Western Balkans, says she wished to talk about Serbia’s next steps toward the EU.

Greek Ambassador in Serbia Dimosthenis Stoidis has denied that his country would recognize the unilateral declaration of independence made by Kosovo’s Albanians.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said that EU integrations and the Kosovo status question are two separate issues. “In the last two years of our diplomatic fight for Kosovo, we have preserved peace and stability in the region, began the historic process before the

A delegation of the European Parliament (EP) will pay a visit to Macedonia on Wednesday. The MEPs and their colleagues from Macedonian Parliament will hold the seventh session of the Macedonia-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee. 

Bulgaria will ask Russia for a loan of some 2 billion euros (USD 2.75 billion) to finance the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant over the next two years, the Bulgarian economy minister said Tuesday.

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha greeted the second anniversary of Kosovo’s independence in a letter sent to his Kosovo counterpart, Hashim Thaci, on Wednesday.

High Representative Valentin Inzko briefed a visiting US Congressional delegation Monday (February 15th) on obstacles BiH faces in its reform process. He insisted that the country’s territorial integrity will not be

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked on Monday (February 15th) that the UN war crimes tribunal force Germany, France, Croatia and Iran to give him documents related to arming Bosnian Muslims during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict.

Croatia will resume accession talks with the European Union Friday and is expected to open at least two more chapters in the negotiating process, which aims for the full membership of the country in the EU. The Netherlands had expressed its reservations about the possibility of opening the chapter on …