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EU politicians said a decision would probably be made on Monday about further European aid to struggling Greece. Martin Kotthaus, a German Finance Ministry spokesman told a regular government

“Bulgaria has demonstrated and proved its support to Croatia many times over the last 20 years. Bulgaria was among the first to recognise Croatia’s independence, and then of the rest of the republics

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has met with Croatian Parliament Speaker Boris Sprem on Friday, announced the press service of the President’s Office. Boris Sprem is visiting Bulgaria on the occasion of

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 …