British Foreign Secretary William Hague has arrived in Belgrade on Thursday and met with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić. The two officials met
Read More »Macedonia President will not attend SEECP summit
Macedonian plans to host a summit of regional presidents end in fiasco after most of the guests pull out for a variety of reasons – forcing Macedonia’s president to call off the meeting. Gjorge Ivanov said there was no point in holding the summit, or the complementary
Read More »Belgrade and Pristina hold new meeting in Brussels
Talks on the implementation of the Belgrade-Priština agreement and electric power and telecommunications started in Brussels at 11:00 CET. Belgrade’s implementation team is led by
Read More »UN could allow Serbian war criminals to serve sentences in their country
The UN secretary-general has asked the Hague Tribunal to examine the possibility of Serbian war crimes convicts serving their sentences in their home country. Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic asked the UN
Read More »Serbian PM to visit Brussels
Serbia’s Prime Minister Ivica Dačić will attend the plenary session of the European Parliament (EP) Foreign Affairs Committee in Brussels on Wednesday.
Read More »Albanian President says it will not attend Balkan Summit because of Kosovo
President Bujar Nishani on Tuesday said he would not participate in the summit of the South-East European Cooperation Process, SEECP, after his Kosovo counterpart was not invited. Nishani said he would not be going to Macedonia out of “disappointment with the destructive conditionality that
Read More »Former Bosnian Croat President convicted 25 years for war crimes
Former Bosnian Croat president Jadranko Prlic and five co-defendants were jailed on Wednesday for between 10 and 25 years for murdering and deporting Muslims in Bosnia in the early 1990s to create a “greater Croatian state”. The six former top Bosnian Croat officials faced 26 counts
Read More »EU wants Kosovo to attend Ohrid meeting
EU Delegation head Vincent Degert says the South-East European Cooperation Process is not covered in the Brussels agreement between Belgrade and Pristina. However, the EU “would like to see Kosovo take part in the gathering.”
Read More »Turkey rejects Cyprus link to new EU chapters
Ankara quickly rejects a tentative proposal from the European Union on accession negotiations, refusing to open its ports to Greek Cypriot shipping in return for speedier chapter negotiations.
Read More »Bulgarian parliament to vote on new government
The 42nd National Assembly is to vote on a government headed by Plamen Oresharski on Wednesday at its regular meeting. On Tuesday Oresharski, who is nominated for prime minister by the Coalition for Bulgaria, presented President Rosen Plevneliev with the fulfillment of the government formation mandate, which he received last …
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