Balkans

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon discussed impacts of the global economic crisis on Greece with Antonis Samaras, the Prime Minister of the financially-troubled southeastern European country. “The Secretary-General and the Prime Minister discussed preparations for the resumption, in the fall, of negotiations

Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Tuesday that Turks living in Bulgaria were acting like bridges between two countries. “The social, political, and cultural relations between the neighbouring countries Turkey and Bulgaria are so strong,” said Bozdag during his 3-day visit in Bulgaria adding he believed the relations would even get better.

Croatian rights activists called on the Zagreb authorities to show respect for victims and deal with war crimes committed by the army during its 1995 Operation Storm. Croatian human rights organisations have sent a letter to the country’s president, prime minister

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is to pay a visit to Washington on Thursday and meet with U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.

Pristina and Belgrade have agreed to set up permanent border checkpoints during the first part of next year as part of their deal to normalise relations. “The establishment of permanent border-crossing buildings will be financed by the European Commission…which plans to

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag is paying a three-day unofficial visit to Bulgaria. On the first day of his visit he went

Belgrade and Pristina plan to hold a joint investigation at the site of a suspected mass grave from the 1999 Kosovo war near the south Serbian town of Medvedja. 

Ministers in Bulgarian Parliament will not have a summer break, it has been announced.

Serbia’s Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday there were many problems with holding the local elections in Kosovo.

The Foreign Minister of Cyprus, Ioannis Kasoulides, met yesterday with Qatar’s Ambassador in Nicosia Hussein bin Ahmed Al Hemaid on the diplomat assuming his duties.