Balkan News

Albania’s constitutional court annulled on Tuesday a territorial agreement signed with Greece which delineates the continental shelf between the two countries in the Ionian Sea, arguing that it had serious legal flaws. “In the agreement there are procedural and substantive infractions of the [Albanian] constitution and of the the 1982 …

Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz says that Croatia’s cooperation regarding a request for military documents is yet to produce desired results. The Hague prosecution’s request pertains to artillery log from the 1995 military and police onslaught against the country’s Serb areas, known as “Operation Storm”. Addressing the European Parliament foreign …

Austria and Greece have started an initiative for getting all Western Balkan countries into the European Union by 2014. These two countries submitted a letter to EU Foreign and Security Policies Chief Catherine Ashton and EU member-state foreign ministers, stating that it is their goal to get all the countries …

Regional Policy Commissioner Paweł Samecki urged Croatian authorities to speed up the preparations for usage of the pre-accession EU funds, which will enable Croatia to withdraw 2.2 billion euros. He said that Croatia will be able to withdraw about 2.2 billion euros, during the first two years of its EU …

European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to approve amendments to Macedonia report, demanding that EU sets a date for accession talks with Macedonia in March this year. A total of 56 MEPs hailed the amendments, with five MEPs opposing them.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic is to attend the celebrations in honor of Saint Sava in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro. Jeremic arrives at the invitation of bishop Joanikije of Budim and Niksic. The Montenegrin foreign ministry is officially informed about the Serbian foreign minister’s visit.

The Bulgarian Business Association took a decision to block the Ilinden and Kulata boarded checkpoints on February 1 in response to the protests of Greek agricultural producers along the Bulgarian – Greek boarder, the Chairman of the association Svetlozar Nikolov announced.

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, Serge Brammertz, says that the most wanted fugitives in the region, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, are hiding on Serbian soil. “On the basis of information received from Serbia we have no reason to believe that they …

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas confirmed that he will meet his Macedonia counterpart Antonio Milososki later on Wednesday at the sidelines of the international conference on Afghanistan being held in London. This meeting was announced in the latest press release by the Greek Foreign Ministry issued late Tuesday.

Negative political trends in Bosnia must be taken very seriously and require the urgent attention of the European Union, the international community’s High Representative to Bosnia Valentin Inzko said. “In the last four years Bosnia has been in a political stalemate…not a single new reform has been adopted that would …