Balkans

Bosnia’s central government approved the budget for 2012 on Wednesday as the country seeks talks next month with IMF on a new loan deal. The adoption of the budget was delayed so far because misunderstandings of Serb, Croat and Muslim leaders.

Moldova’s Prime Minister Vlad Filat will pay an official visit to Sofia on Thursday. He is set to meet with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and President Rosen Plevneliev. The visit is just a week after Moldova restored centralized funding for the Bulgarian community in Taraclia, a move that was praised …

NATO should send a message to Western Balkans that the door is still open. This would be a strong motivation for countries to reform, said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov in Brussels, where he met alliance’s foreign and defence ministers. Mladenov gave Bosnia as an example, saying that it achieved …

Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac visited Serbian Army (VS) troops serving as peacekeepers in Cyprus. He said on Wednesday in Cyprus that members of the Serbian Army and the state are considering peacekeeping missions a highly honorable job. Sutanovac said that only 46 from 900 members of the Serbian military …

EC President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday that the total aid to Greece will be 380 billion euros. “We have put together a very ambitious programme of

Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says there are more than 100 outstanding arrest warrants for members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). “Once they are within reach of the Serbian authorities, they

Azerbaijani Agriculture minister Ismet Abasov met on Tuesday with a Bosnian delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Jerko Ivankovic-Lijanovic. The two sides discussed about bilateral cooperation in the field of agriculture. Abbasov said there are favorable soil and climatic conditions Azerbaijan, high export potential and favorable …

The Bulgarian Government has canceled the idea to construct a border fence with Turkey, a border aimed to stop infiltration of animals infected with foot-and-mouth disease. The government said it cannot afford the construction of the 181-km border fence. The project would cost almost 14 million euro, and the Bulgarian …

Hashim Thaci called for calm after the murder of five Macedonian men in Skopje last week. Rumours that the men were killed by Albanians raised the tension, but the police say there is no evidence to support the claims. Thaci added that both Albanians and Macedonians need to keep the country …

Bosnian FM Zlatko Lagumdzija said on Monday that he hopes Bosnia would join NATO by 2014, marking a hundred years since World War I started in Sarajevo. The ruling party in the Republika Srpska reacted on Tuesday saying that the FM was spreading his own personal views rather than the …