Croatia and Serbia signed an extrensive economic cooperation agreement Wednesday, which will see the two former rivals join regional markets together. The agreement calls for cooperation in the sectors of shipbuilding, energy, electrical engineering, infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, as well as the food, pharmaceutical, tobacco, chemical and wood industries, news agencies …
Read More »Serbia To Host International Environment Meeting
Serbia will host a meetings of ministers on the environment in Belgrade from June 27-28, the Serbian Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning announced. Having recently assumed the two-year presidency of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, Serbia has become a central point for discussing issues …
Read More »EU Aid To Help Serbia Refugee Crisis
The EU has earmarked 9 million euros for projects aimed at implementing a national plan for supporting refugees and internally displaced persons, IDPs, in Serbia. Josep Lloveras, head of the European Commission delegation to Serbian, yesterday told media that helping IDPs and refugees was a vital initiative, especially during the …
Read More »Bosnian leaders criticise Tadic’s visit to Banja Luka
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Local leaders criticised on Tuesday (June 23rd) Serbian President Boris Tadic’s visit to Banja Luka, arguing that he voiced support only for Bosnian Serb leaders.
Read More »IMF loan to BiH in jeopardy
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Federation of BiH (FBiH) Finance Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda admitted on Tuesday (June 23rd) that BiH risks losing a 1.2 billion-euro loan from the IMF because the entity failed to cut its social and welfare budget by 10%.
Read More »Serbia formally requests Bulgaria to extradite Ceku
Serbia, citing a 1960 bilateral agreement, has filed a formal request to Bulgaria for the extradition of Agim Ceku, the former Kosovo prime minister arrested at the Macedonian – Bulgarian border because of an Interpol warrant issued at the request of Belgrade that wants him on war crimes charges. In …
Read More »EU Cancels Next Round of Croatia Talks
As a row between Slovenia and Croatia heats up, the European Union has cancelled the next round of accession negotiations with Croatia planned for Friday, giving no new date talks. EU officials said no progress had been made towards brokering a deal between Croatia and its EU-member neighbor Slovenia. Despite …
Read More »Bosnia Refuses to Handover Branimir Glavas
Bosnia’s state court on Tuesday refused to extradite a powerful Croatian parliamentary deputy who fled to Bosnia to avoid going to jail for war crimes. Branimir Glavas was the first senior Croatian official to be convicted of war crimes against Serbs during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the …
Read More »Serbs Send Nuclear Fuel to Russia, Citing Security
Serbia plans to ship thousands of kilograms of spent nuclear fuel to Russia as it seeks to avert security threats and decommission a research reactor, a government official said on Tuesday. The Vinca Nuclear Institute, 17 km (11 miles) southeast of Belgrade, will ship 2.5 tonnes of spent fuel rods …
Read More »Sweden steers clear of Croatian-Slovenian dispute
BRUSSELS, Belgium Sweden, which takes over the rotating EU presidency on July 1st, does not plan to intervene in the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said in Brussels on Monday (June 22nd).
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