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Bulgaria has registered a significant progress and should really enter the Schengen Agreement, according to Margherita Boniver, chair of the Italian parliamentary committee on Schengen and immigration issues. “As you know, Italy has never had any objections

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has repeated his belief that Greece can recover from the crisis and said that Brussels could help Athens make progress «within weeks» on

Bulgarian Council of Ministers approved a draft bill on intergovernmental memorandum of Bulgaria and Turkey for the opening of cultural centres of the two countries. Under the document, the Bulgarian cultural centre will be opened in Istanbul, while the Turkish – in Sofia. The cultural centres will have a status …

UN mediator in the Greek-Macedonian name dispute, Matthew Nimetz, is ready with a new proposal envisaging the name issue to be solved at different stages. Nimetz’s new proposal envisages for Macedonia to

Bulgaria is now just one positive Cooperation and Verification Mechanism report away from its phased-in Schengen entry, according to Dutch Ambassador to the country Karel Van Kesteren. The Netherlands had already stated that it

Serbian President Boris Tadić met on Monday in Belgrade with Council of Europe (coE) Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland. They agreed that now that Serbia has been made

The Hague court issued an order for the Secretariat to appoint the committee consisting of three doctors and file a report on the defendant’s aptitude to be placed in detention having in mind his health. At the same time, the court called on Šešelj to cooperate and show good will …

The Bulgarian cabinet approved an agreement between Nabucco Gas Pipeline Bulgaria EOOD and Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH (NIC) on Tuesday for the further implementation of the gas pipeline project. The agreement between Nabucco consortium

Serbia’s government has decided to exclude its former province of Kosovo from the next elections. “The EU course has prevailed,” a cabinet source said, referring

Six civil society representatives are being included in the initial stage of negotiations between Montenegro and the EU. Montenegro’s government has included NGO