Balkans

Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where he met and talked with several MEPs. Poposki’s interlocutors said that the EP

Serbia’s chief negotiator in the dialogue with Pristina, Borislav Stefanovic, called the referendum in four Serbian municipalities in North Kosovo pointless. In Stefanovic’s words, the referendum will not bring any real result, since it is anti-constitutional and will worsen Belgrade’s position in the negotiations. “It [the referendum] will not leave …

As a vital decision on Serbia’s EU candidate status looms in Brussels, Belgrade and Pristina are hurrying back to the negotiating table. The next round of EU-mediated talks between Belgrade

Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, voted by an absolute majority on February 17 2012 to ratify Croatia’s European Union accession treaty. The speaker of the Croatian parliament, Boris Sprem, was

Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has praised the “courage” of the Greek public in tackling the country’s “demanding and challenging” crippling debts. But, speaking in Brussels on Thursday, he also described

The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Bosnian Serb forces, is set to start on May 14, when opening statements will be presented. The Chamber of the ICTY had announced last December

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has replied to Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski’s letter of invitation for a meeting. Papademos has accepted the invitation and has proposed the meeting to be held in the frames of the Council of the EU in March. According to the Greek prime minister the dispute …

Bulgaria’s government should respect the right of ethnic self-determination, as well as the right of free unification of the members of the Macedonian minority and the Bulgarian Mohammedan in the country, said Rita Isaak, independent

If they are to make real progress towards EU integration, both Serbia and Kosovo will need to improve their relations, EU Commissioner Stefan Fule said. The EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fule, said Serbia will need to honour all agreed deals with Kosovo if it wants to make progress on …

Polls are closed in the two-day referendum in the four, predominantly Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo; turnout of 75.28 percent reported. According to the first, unofficial results, 99.74 percent