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Serbia’s President has rewarded sympathetic international public figures with special merits as part of celebrations ahead of Serbia’s Statehood Day on February 15.President Nikolic has bestowed the Sretenje medal, second class, on the US lawyer Ramsey Clark for his public and humanitarian work, according to the latest Official Gazette. Clark …

Croatia must show the EU in January that it is moving towards fulfilling the final criteria for membership in the bloc, an official said following meetings on Wednesday.Zagreb is expected to submit a report by the end of January on its progress towards completing the 10 tasks highlighted in the …

Trust is key in the relationship between NATO and its partners, Bulgaria’s foreign minister said in an address to the alliance on Wednesday.”The best way to achieve this is through all partners being involved in the decision-making process,” Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov said at a meeting of NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Partnership …

Burning Macedonian flags in Albania, and pelting the Macedonian Prime Minister’s car, were unacceptable incidents, the Presidents of Macedonia and Albania agreed in Montenegro.Macedonia’s President, Gjorge Ivanov, and his Albanian counterpart, Bujar Nishani, met on Wednesday at the sidelines of the fourth regional presidential summit under the working title, “Cooperation …

Prime Minister expresses sorrow over the shock death of the ambassador to NATO, Branislav Milinkovic, who was reported to have killed himself in Brussels on Tuesday.Serbia’s Prime Minister on Wednesday expressed his sorrow about the death of the country’s NATO ambassador who committed suicide in Brussels on Tuesday. Media reports …

The Hague Tribunal verdict in the case of the former intelligence chief of the Bosnian Serb army, Zdravko Tolimir, will be delivered on December 12.The International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has announced that the verdict in the case of Zdravko Tolimir, a former high ranking official of …

The Council of Ministers has asked the Bosnian Parliament to adopt a new draft Law on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in order to solve their most pressing needs.The draft law – which was done by the Bosnian Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees – ensures that all refugees …

Ruling coalition has proposed changes to the law on public companies, obliging the state to withdraw from day-to-day management of public enterprises.Mladjan Dinkic, Finance Minister, told parliament on Tuesday that amendments to the Public Companies Law envisage the state withdrawing from company management roles.

Skopje had agreed to the three terms that Sofia has set as preconditions for Bulgaria’s support for Macedonia’s EU integration process.In a letter sent on Tuesday, Macedonia’s Foreign Minister, Nikola Poposki, wrote to tell his Bulgarian counterpart, Nikolay Mladenov, that the proposals contained in Mladenov’s earlier letter were acceptable. They …

After parliament endorsed the programme and structure of his goverment late on Tuesday, Milo Djukanovic has officially returned as Montenegro’s Prime Minister.Milo Djukanovic’s new government, led by his Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, has 16 ministers and 4 vice prime ministers. The former Prime Minister, Igor Luksic, has been appointed …