Balkans

Serbian Deputy prime minister Vucic said on Saturday that politicians in both Belgrade and Zagreb have “the obligation to make violence impossible”. “I’m convinced that our countries will never again confront each other,” Vucic said.

The Stabilisation and Association Agreement, which Serbia signed with the EU five years ago, became active on Sunday as Belgrade made another step towards membership of the European club.

On Sunday, First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić offered Tanja Miščević the post of Serbia’s lead negotiator in EU membership talks, which she accepted. Vučić conferred with Miščević in the Serbian government building, after

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić called on Priština on Thursday to respect the agreements reached so far and asked the UN to stay in Kosovo and Metohija. The UN is an “honest broker and a guarantor that the other side will not undermine the

“Croatia will undertake the necessary measures to harmonise its law on judicial cooperation with European acquis communautaire,” Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said in a letter to the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barrosso.

President of the Republic of Bulgaria and Commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian Army, Rosen Plevneliev, and Minister of Defence, Angel Naydenov, took part in the presentation of the purposes and tasks of the military training

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić is in Shanghai on Thursday, where he is wrapping up his four-day visit to the People’s Republic of China. On Wednesday, he conferred with the governor and other officials of the Zhejiang province, who, according to reports, voiced strong friendly ties with Serbs and expressed the …

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold a debate on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija in New York on Thursday. The council will look at the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s latest report, in which he

Croatia refused to abolish a law exempting crimes committed during the Communist era and war crimes. Therefore, the European Commission (EC) may put EU’s newest member state

“Over the next few days the Security Council with the Prime Minister will hold a sitting over the situation in Syria,” Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kristian Vigenin said after a meeting with Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski and Secretary General of the Council on Regional Cooperation Goran Svilanovic. “We will …