Eurasia Press & News
Filip Vujanović says that he will sign a decree appointing an ambassador to Priština “once Kosovo recognizes Montenegrins as an ethnic minority”. “I am convinced that this issue needs to be addressed before we appoint ambassadors, because it is correct toward our community in Kosovo. It would also be a …
Read More »Action Team “has idea” on Mladić whereabouts
It is obvious that Ratko Mladić is still hiding well and successfully, and that he can postpone his extradition in this way, says Rasim Ljajić. “If the services continue to work in this way, the arrest of Mladić cannot be avoided,” he said, and added that he could not specify …
Read More »Serbia “on right path again”, Serbian FM
Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić says Serbia has the capacity and resolve to “break all records in 2010”, when it comes to the speed of joining the EU. “From a hyperactive year in the foreign policy domain, Serbia is entering another of the kind. We are resolved to catch up with …
Read More »Mesic: Declaration of Kosovo independence marks the end of SFRJ
Kosovo’s independence marks the end of Former Yugoslavia and has set a new architecture in South-east Europe, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said. The Croatian President is scheduled to visit Kosovo on January 8. “If Serbia can’t recognize Kosovo’s independence, no one can force her to do so”, Mesic added.
Read More »Meglena Kuneva: “Suspension of EU funds of any EU member states is not always over safeguard clauses”
The safeguard clauses imposed by the European Union over the job of a country in certain sectors are not the only Bulgaria should fear in the first three years of its membership in the European Union, said EU Commissioner for Consumer Protection Meglena Kuneva, commenting of the first three years …
Read More »Macedonian FM: “International right is Macedonia line in name issue”
“With the blockage imposed on Macedonia’s accession to the EU and NATO at the sitting of the Alliance in Bucharest Greece laughed in the face of the most serious military-political organization-NATO. However, this speaks more about Greece than about Macedonia,” said Macedonian foreign minister Antonio Miloshoski in an interview with …
Read More »Bulgaria, Azerbaijan to start energy cooperation
The memorandum for understanding and cooperation between the energy ministries of Bulgaria and Azerbaijan, inked by both parties 13 November, provides for wrapping up the talks between Bulgargaz and GNKAR and sealing a long-term natural gas delivery contract for at least 1 bcm in 2011-2012. Deliveries can be made through …
Read More »Russia ready to finance two years of Belene NPP construction
Russia was ready to finance the next two years of construction on Bulgaria’s second nuclear power plant in Belene on the Danube, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said. That way the plant’s construction will not be put on hold, he said, noting that money needed for construction of Belene …
Read More »Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov opens first information centre in Hadzhidimovo
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Chairperson of the National Assembly Tsetska Tsacheva opened the first European information centre in the region of Hadzhidimovo on Wednesday. The ceremony was attended by the regional governor Valeri Smilenov, MPs from Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB) etc.
Read More »Municipal official elected in Serb enclave
Goran Lazić of the Independent Liberal Party (SLS) was named the assembly speaker in Gračanica at the assembly’s constitutive session. Lazić receive 14 votes from officials elected during the local elections in Kosovo held on November 15, organized by the Kosovo Albanian government in Priština. Ignored in the northern, Serb-dominated …
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