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Serbia’s next EU goal – obtaining a start date for accession talks – depends on further progress in talks with Kosovo, Enlargement Commissioner says . After the country became an EU candidate last Thursday, President Boris

Turkey would consider annexing northern Cyprus, which is technically EU territory, if talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots fail to reach a deal on reunification of the island, Turkey’s European Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış told a Turkish Cypriot newspaper.

Behlul Limaj, one of the defendants in the Klecka Case, was taken ill during the court session on Thursday and sent to hospital. The trial should resume on Monday. The trial of ten former Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, fighters for war crimes

The EC will recommend a date for the start of Serbia’s accession talks “as soon as it reaches agreements with Priština on energy and telecommunications”. This was heard from EU Enlargement

A convoy of EULEX vehicles with cisterns and customs booths was stopped at about 11:00 CET in the village of Banov Do near Zvečan, in northern Kosovo. “The vehicles were stopped on a section of the

European Union leaders have cleared the release of second bailout package for Greece by the end of the week. This is to enable Greece avoid a default on paying back €14.5 billion debts due on March 20. Finance ministers of the euro group, during a two-day

Bosnia’s war crimes prosecutors on Friday indicted five former members of a Croat paramilitary force for the torture of hundreds of Bosnian Serbs, most of them civilians, in the south of the country during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Bulgaria and Romania will spend further months in the waiting room to join the European Union’s Schengen visa zone after the Netherlands continued to insist that the two countries have not made sufficient progress against organised crime and corruption.

The governments of Bulgaria and Israel are going to hold a second joint sitting, the two countries’ Foreign Ministers Nikolay Mladenov and Avigdor Lieberman have made it clear. Mladenov explained in Sofia Friday that his meeting

New Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija says European integration is more of a priority now that neighbouring Serbia has obtained candidate status. Serbia’s success this week in obtaining EU candidate status should encourage Bosnia to