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Tina Kaidanow, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs said that Macedonia will have to resolve the ‘name’ dispute with Greece before it receives an invitation. “Macedonia has fulfilled key criteria required of NATO members and has contributed to regional and global security”, Kaidanow …

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. President Ilham Aliyev said bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria were rapidly developing in various fields, including in the economic one. He noted there was good potential to boost energy cooperation and stressed the importance of developing …

Greece will hold general elections on May 6. A total of 32 parties will field candidates, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The conservatives and the socialists, who have alternated in power in the last three decades, have lost support to left-wing parties which are against austerity measures that brought Greece near …

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov starts on Thursday an official two-day visit to Azerbaijan. He will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the Prime Minister Artur Rasizade. The purpose of the visit is to discuss ways to boost the trade-economic relations between the two countries, gas supplies to Bulgaria …

Herman van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, paid a one-day visit to Romania and Bulgaria. In Romania, Rompuy met the President Traian Băsescu, the Prime Minister Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu and spoke in front of the Romanian Parliament

On April 25 in Strasbourg, Bosnian Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, expressed hope and commitment  that the country would soon implement the 2009 European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, ruling, which says Bosnia must change its constitution to allow ethnic minorities to run for top posts.

KFOR Commander Erhard Drews has stated that additional 700 NATO troops are expected to arrive in Kosovo by Friday. The Operational Reserve Forces (ORF) troops, would be sent to KFOR before the Serbian elections that will take place on May 6. The troops will be composed by 550 German and …

EU President Herman van Rompuy arrives on a one-day visit to Sofia on Wednesday to discuss the government’s plan for diversification of the natural gas supplies to Europe. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Herman van Rompuy will have a one-to-one meeting, followed by a joint news conference.

Fule said in Sarajevo on April 24 that Bosnian politicians should come to Brussels and sort out a programme of coordination of EU-related issues. He said agreement was needed between all

Croatian and Bosnian officials on April 24 exchanged views on a range of outstanding issues, ranging from the Neum corridor to the port of Ploce and EU-standard border checkpoints. Croatian officials on Tuesday presented Bosnia’s Foreign Ministry