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Czech candidate for EU Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule considers Croatia will close the EU accession talks in 2010. According to Fule his main talks will be each future expansion to be fell prepared. “The judicial reforms and the main rights are big challenge for Croatia,” Fule noted.
Read More »Tadic Slams Mesic for Serb Killer Sentence
Relations between Serbia and Croatia reached another critical juncture after Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Thursday decreased by one year a jail sentence of a convicted war criminal, who took part in the executions of ethnic Serb civilians in the Pakracka Poljana region of western Slavonia in late 1991. Serbian …
Read More »Kosovo Honors Croatia’s Mesic
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic during his visit to Kosovo on Friday was honored by the Kosovo’s President with the “Golden Medal of Independence”, while Pristina declared him an honourary citizen. During the meeting with his Kosovar counterpart Fatmir Sejdiu, Mesic said the award is the highest the newest state in …
Read More »Croatia Prepares for Presidential Runoff
Croatians will vote in a presidential runoff election this Sunday, which polls and analysts indicate will be won by jurist and classical music composer Ivo Josipovic of the main opposition Social Democratic Party, SDP. Josipovic, who has campaigned under the promise of “new justice” for Croatia, will face populist independent candidate …
Read More »Tadić’s office denies there was “agreement”
Serbian President Boris Tadič did not reach any agreement with the temporary institutions of Kosovo regarding his stay during Christmas in the monastery of Dečani.
Read More »Stjepan Mesic to visit Kosovo
Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesic sets off for a visit to Kosovo. At the end of December he accepted the letters credential of the Kosovan ambassador to Zagreb Valdet Sadiku and said he would visit Kosovo a day after Orthodox Christmas to avoid offending Serbian President Boris Tadic. The Serbian …
Read More »Kosovo’s Sejdiu asks international community to help dissolve Serb parallel structures
Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu has asked EULEX and the International Civilian Office (ICO) to support authorities in their efforts to dissolve Serb parallel structures in Kosovo. Sejdiu met on Tuesday (January 5th) with EULEX chief Yves de Kermabon and ICO official Fletcher Burton to discuss the recent appointment of judges …
Read More »Croatia’s Kosor insists ruling coalition is stable
Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor reassured her government’s coalition partners that the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) is stable and stronger than ever. This follows the expulsion of former prime minister and honorary party president Ivo Sanader, which sparked fears of a split in the ruling party. Sanader was expelled from the …
Read More »Opposition parties in Serbia to seek early elections
The opposition Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will take concrete steps to force early elections, leader Tomislav Nikolic said. He noted that one possibility would be to launch a nationwide petition to collect signatures for the move. Nikolic added that his party will seek the early vote in order to receive …
Read More »OHR in warning over RS independence referendum
The Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia says a referendum on independence of the Republic of Srpska (RS) would violate the Dayton agreement. The 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina ended with the peace deal, and organized the country into two entities: the Serb RS, and the Muslim-Croat Federation. “The …
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