Balkans

Bulgaria will inaugurate a new consulate in Montenegro, which will be located in the town of Budva and it will cover the area of the municipalities of Herceg Novi, Tivat, Korot, Budva, Bar and Ulcinj. The new consulate will be run by Nivica Jovovic. The government’s press office announced that …

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday in Vukovar that his country seeks to create good relations with every country, and that includes Serbia. “I hope that the positions of newly elected Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will change. We have made significant progress in relations in the past two to …

Four judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), who are in charge of the trial of Radovan Karadzic, started on Tuesday tour of the Srebrenica sites which will last for 5 days. The judges, who are from Trinidad, South Korea, Italy and Great Britain, are accompanied …

Montenegrin President, Filip Vujanovic, announced that his country will sign agreements on border and dual citizenship with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The President of Montenegro met his Bosnian counterpart on Sunday at UNESCO’s Summit of Heads of State in South East Europe, held in Mostar (the southwest of Bosnia). After this …

Georgia and the EU started communication on a visa-free regime on June 4. 8 EU countries voiced on November 2011 the intention to start the negotiations on visa-free regime and free trade with Georgia. The agreement on “Simplification of visa issuance procedures” in a single package with the agreement on …

Cyprus’ central bank chief, Panicos Demetriades, announced that it’s very possible to be in situation to ask for an EU bailout agreement to help rescue its banking sector, adding that “it is hard to see where (the money) is coming from, if not Europe.”

The European Commission adopted on 27 May proposals to allow Albanian and Bosnian citizens to travel to Schengen area without visas, if the two countries satisfy a number of requirements. “I know how much visa-free travel means to the people

EULEX will start to exhume a possible mass grave in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, after two bodies were found  by local residents during construction works. A team of EULEX experts and war

Albanian PM Sali Berisha discussed on Sunday with opposition leader Edi Rama about agreeing on a candidate for president, but failed to reach any positive results. The opposition rejected Zaganjori’s candidature and asked for talks between

Serbian President together with several ministers held a meeting to discuss the latest events between from northern Kosovo between Serbs and NATO peacekeepers. The meeting was held on Friday, right after KFOR started to dismantle the Serb barricades near Zvecan, a Serb-run area in northern Kosovo. Serbia’s Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac, …