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Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos he is resigning to lead the PASOK to general elections. “We have elections ahead and I had this morning the opportunity in a farewell meeting at the finance ministry to give my last instructions,” Venizelos said after he met with Greek President Karolos Papoulias. The …

Croatia has appointed its first Members of the European parliament, who will immediately have the right to participate in sessions but not to vote until Croatia joins the EU next July. The new Croatian MEPs were chosen on the basis of the last general election results held on December 4.

Skopje government is ready for high-level dialogue with the EU, since it has been waiting for the talks to start for a long time, said Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. “We are ready for this dialogue, as well as for the pre-accession talks, which was our goal. We hope that …

Catherine Ashton and Stefan Fule congratulates Moldova after electing new president: “We welcome the successful outcome of the presidential election in Chisinau, by which the members of the Moldovan Parliament have demonstrated their sense

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos was elected as the new leader of the socialist PASOK party on Sunday in internal elections, ahead of the early general polls due later this spring. Over 200,000 party members participated in the

Bulgaria is seeking a deal with Turkey to construct a short pipeline connecting the countries’ domestic gas networks. The issue is expected to be discussed when

Serbian government’s EU Integration Office head Milica Delević says that from the administrative and technical aspect Serbia is ready to start accession talks with the EU. She said Serbia has a foundation and an established mechanism for negotiating teams for the dialogue with the EU.

A mass grave has been found a few days ago in Croatia, near the town of Petrinja. Forensic experts have dug out the remains of eight people so far from the mass grave located near the town of Petrinja’s city rubbish dump.

Vojislav Seselj said on Thursday that ‘Seseljevci’ did not commit any crimes in Sarajevo. On the second day of his closing

Serbia and Bosnia have agreed to improve bilateral relations in what officials called the start of a new era since their 1992-95 war. On Wednesday, Serbian Foreign Minister