Balkans

The US Embassy in Sofia (Bulgaria) will adopt a new program with the objective to ease the visa renewal process. According to the new program, all bulgarian citiziens

Dimitar Arnaudov has handed over his letters of credence as an ambassador of Bulgaria to Albania to President Bamir Topi. Arnaudov discussed with the Albanian President about bilateral relations and the European prospects of the Western Balkan countries, including Albania. The two underlined that bilateral cooperation should enhance in fields …

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos will meet with President Karolos Papoulias on Wednesday afternoon. Papademos is leading the Greek interim government since November 2011. 

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and National Council of Switzerland President Hansjorg Walter met on Tuesday. The two expressed the willing of the two sides to continue

Milorad Dodik, the president of the Serb Republic (RS), said on Monday that the recent commemoration of the war in Sarajevo was another attempt to assign guilt only to Serbs. He said he does not oppose the remembrance of victims of the war, Muslim and Serb, but he thinks that …

Japan’s PM Yoshikiko Noda told Bulgarian Parliamentary Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva that his country wishes to improve business activity in Bulgaria if the business climate gets better. Tsetska Tsacheva stressed that Bulgaria will make efforts to improve bilateral relations in fields such as business and tourism. Noda said further that a …

Macedonia’s ruling coalition submitted a draft of the new Lustration law on Tuesday to the parliament which aims to dismiss ex-police informants from public offices. This comes after the Constitutional Court scrapped in late March the twelve controversial provisions of the existing law, which narrowed its scope.

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić stated on Monday that “the only realistic solution” for Kosovo was “demarcation of the territory”. Dačić, who heads the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and is running in the presidential election, added that “no one except from him” talked about essential …

Romania expects to reach an agreement with Bulgaria in their dispute over 17 square km of their economic zones in the Black Sea, Romanian Foreign Minister Crisian Diaconescu has announced. Diaconescu declared Friday that the dispute between Bulgaria

A home-made firebomb exploded in the early hours of Monday in Athens in front of a building housing offices of Greece’s administrative reform ministry. The explosion at 13:52 in front of the