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The European Union should approve Serbia as a candidate to the bloc at its December summit, the head of the European parliament said Tuesday. “In December we should decide on Serbia as a candidate country to give them a signal that we are

The problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be resolved inside the country, said Serbian President Boris Tadic on the occasion of the anniversary of signing Dayton Agreement. According to Tadic the problems should be resolved in accordance with the Dayton Agreement, which brought peace and rule of law in Bosnia …

Macedonia launched a lobbying campaign in the EU, aiming at receiving a date for starting the EU accession talks. Foreign Minister Nikola Popovski has sent a letter to his EU counterparts asking them to be upright and not to follow the practice set by Athens. According to Popovski, the EU …

The latest round of the Belgrade-Priština dialog should be continued in Brussels on Tuesday, with talks on administrative line crossing in northern Kosovo. On the first day of the new round of talks yesterday, Belgrade and Priština reached an

Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says Serbia should not recognize the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo “even if this means not joining the EU”. “If the price is for Serbia to give up Kosovo to gain membership

The European Commission on November 21 offered more than €200 million in grant assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The funds come from the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) and were decided at a meeting on November 14 in which IPA priorities for 2012 and 2013 were set.

Germany does not plan to make a compromise about Serbia’s European integration. Berlin thinks Serbia has to meet all necessary criteria to obtain an EU candidate country status, despite some countries’ call that Belgrade should be awarded. The German diplomacy expects a resumption of the dialog with Pristina and application …

The EU-sponsored Kosovo dialogue will continue on Monday in Brussels after a break of some two months, when incidents on the administrative line stopped it. The topics of the talks between Belgrade and Priština today will be university diplomas, representation of Kosovo Albanian authorities in organization, as well as the …

Macedonia is not likely to get a starting date for EU accession negotiations as Greece blocks the move over the unsolved name dispute. According to the Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki his country will try to secure a deferred starting date at the upcoming EU Council summit, an idea that …

Bulgaria and Turkey will sign a political agreement to build a cross-border gas pipeline, thus declaring the strategic importance of this project to both states, Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry said on November 19 2011. The move was agreed at a meeting of Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Traicho Traikov