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On Tuesday, the General Affairs Council today adopted its conclusions

EP president Martin Schulz will express the European Parliament’s solidarity with the Greek people when he addresses the national parliament this evening. Today he is on his first official visit to Athens, where he will meet the country’s political leaders. Mr Schulz will be meeting president Karolos Papoulias, prime minister …

Greek Cypriot leader Dimitris Christofias has told the United Nations and other international actors that his government was ready to continue talks with the Turkish Cypriots on reunification of the island after

Greek lawmakers are to vote on a package of tough salary and pension cuts Tuesday as part of measures needed to secure the payout of the debt-ridden country’s second international package of bailout loans. Greek Cabinet ministers were also

If EU facilitator Robert Cooper proposes to resume the Kosovo talks after elections in Serbia, Belgrade will accept that, negotiator Borislav Stefanović says. “We will definitely consult with Cooper and if that is

The adoption of the EU resolution on Macedonia’s progress for 2011 will open the dossiers of the secret services, since the report of MEP Richard Howitt envisages continuation of the lustration process with the possibility of public declassification of the archives. The report calls for the authorities to announce the …

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany kept her strategy for attacking Greece’s debt problems on track with a victory in Parliament yesterday but won the vote only with the help of opposition parties. Without votes from the Social Democrats and the

Bulgaria probably will host one of the meetings on the humanitarian aspects of the crisis in Syria in April, being co-organized by the United Nations, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has announced. Mladenov made the announcement Monday in Brussels where he was taking part in a meeting of the EU …

At an opposition protest on Monday Vevendosje leader Albin Kurti pledged to organize rolling demonstrations, demanding the government’s resignation over the deal with Serbia. Several hundred opposition activists demonstrated in Kosovo’s

Brussels diplomats say Serbia will soon start accession talks with EU. Jelko Kacin, the EU Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia, said that