Balkans

The first prosecution witness at the trial of Ratko Mladic will be examined on June 25 announced the Trial Chamber of the Hague Tribunal, ICTY. Mladic’s defence complained on May 14, two days

Barbara Prammer, President of the National Council of Austria., said that the name dispute between Athens and Skopje should not be related with the EU accession talks for Skopje. According to her, the high-level dialogue between Skopje and the EU allows the country to register progress on five goals until …

Tomislav Nikolic, the Leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SDS), will resign from chairperson of the party. He promised to step down as head of the party if he will be elected as Serbian President. The Constitution of Serbian allows to the president to also be a member and leader …

Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak visited Belgrade on Thursday as an envoy of EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton. He met with Serbia’s Interior Minister and with newly elected president

Albania’s parliament will start the procedure for the election of a new head of state on Thursday. Candidates must have the backing of 20

Newly elected President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic, will visit Moscow on May 26 to attend the congress of Russia’s ruling party, United Russia. He has accepted a long-standing invitation to take part to the congress of Russia’s ruling party. This will be Nikolic’s first visit abroad since he was elected …

Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will meet with Serbian officials in charge of cooperation with the court on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Brammertz met with Serbia’s Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević to talk about cooperation in ongoing cases against Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić. After this visit, Brammertz …

The Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, and his Georgian counterpart, Miheil Saakashvili, met during the NATO summit in Chicago and agreed to exchange official visits in near future. The two discussed a few ‘common grounds’.

Bulgaria’s government has welcomed the election of the new Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in a statement of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov. “We welcome the election of Tomislav Nikolić as President of the Republic of Serbia and congratulate the Serbian people

Macedonian opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of damaging the national interest by unnecessarily antagonizing NATO in a recent interview. Opposition politicians have called on Prime Minister