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Thousands of Romanians are to be affected by the controversial plan to tax savings held in Cypriot banks.Some 40,000 Romanians who live and work in Cyprus could be hit by the controversial plan to tax bank deposits in order to fund a bank bailout. “All Romanians here will be affected. …

Serbia did its best to reach a compromise in the dialogue with Kosovo, said Marko Djuric, adviser of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic. According to Djuric, the success in the dialogue

European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule paid a visit to Belgrade on Monday. He said that: “Setting the date for the start of the EU accession talks for Serbia depends on the realisation of the

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to meet with the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia – Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic. The meeting will be held in New York in the frames of the debates on Kosovo during the UN Security Council meeting. The UN Security Council will debate …

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that “the information arriving in Washington did not correspond to the situation in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue”. The progress made in the dialogue was not being assessed correctly, he said after his meeting in Rome late on Monday with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden.

Enlargement Commissioner Fuele told Kosovo leaders to up the fight against corruption in order to boost its chances of opening a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Brussels. “Kosovo has to show even more courage. More efforts

European Union officials told the Serbian government that reform of the justice system was crucial if Belgrade is to reach the rule-of-law standards required for membership. Speaking to Serbian lawmakers who were visiting Brussels on Tuesday in the hope of boosting the country’s

Genc Mucaj, Albania’s new ambassador to Turkey, presented his credentials to President Abdullah Gul on Monday afternoon. The press was invited to attend the ambassador’s presentation of his credentials to the president.

Kosovo said that a peace treaty would facilitate the reconciliation but would also ensure that Serbia pays compensation for the late 1990s war, said Hajredin Kuci, Kosovo’s deputy prime minister and justice minister.

Leader of Macedonian oppositional party Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), Branko Crvenkovski, will ask for calling snap parliamentary elections in Macedonia no matter what the results of the March 24 local elections. “If we are united, if we stay firm and if we are decided