Balkan News

Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki is set to visit Albania on Monday. During his stay in Tirana, Minister Milososki will meet Foreign Minister Ilir Meta, President Bamir Topi, Parliament President Josefina Topali and Prime Minister Sali Berisha.

On the second day of his working visit to Britain Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov visits the British intelligence and parliament and confers with his British counterpart Gordon Brown.

Officials from the European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will arrive in Bulgaria 18 February to examine the country’s readiness to join ERM II, the so-called Eurozone waiting room.

There is no alternative to Macedonia’s EU and NATO future, Macedonian President Georgi Ivanov said Sunday after the completion of the Munich Security Conference. While the name row with Greece hampers this perspective, he said his country was doing everything in its power to overcome the obstacle.

The BiH Court on Friday (February 5th) convicted defendants Predrag Bastah and Goran Viskovic of crimes against humanity, sentencing them to 22 and 18 years in prison respectively. According to the indictment, Bastah, who was a police reservist in a public security station in Vlasenica, and Viskovic, who was a …

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Saturday (February 6th) that she would like all Western Balkan countries to be successful on their paths to EU integration. Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Ashton said progress depends on the pace of reforms, and that some countries are performing …

The Hague Prosecution has filed a new indictment against Vojislav Seselj for contempt of the Tribunal. For a second time, Seselj has been indicted for disclosing names of protected witnesses in one of his books. According the latest indictment, Seselj disclosed the names, occupations and residences of 11 witnesses. The …

Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin warned Serbia that if Serbia joins NATO that means that Serbia will have to recognize Kosovo independence. He said that Russia’s relation to other countries depends on whether they are NATO members on not. Ambassador Konuzin pointed out that if Serbia continues to insist …

The Macedonian parliament adopted a declaration of support to the European parliament (EP) Srebrenica Genocide Resolution of January 15, 2010. The Resolution condemns the massacre in 1995 in Srebrenica.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo intends to monitor the influence that the KFOR reduction is going to have on Kosovo communities. This is according to Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Werner Almhofer, who spoke id in Vienna on Thursday. Submitting his six-month report on the Mission’s activities to …