Balkans

The Greek government is preparing to remove visa requirements for Turkish citizens who make one-day visits to western Thrace. Greece started the legal process to remove the one-day visas and it is

EU facilitator in the Belgrade-Priština dialogue Robert Cooper will meet with the representatives of the Kosovo Albanian institutions in Priština on Monday. Head of the Kosovo Albanian delegation in the dialogue with Belgrade Edita Tahiri confirmed she will meet with Cooper, who

Bulgaria’s government has moved to absorb EU money for the creation of an information system of the navigation of the Danube River. The project will cost BGN 35.4 M, with 85% of that coming from EU funds under the Operational Program

French European Affairs Minister Jean Leonetti says Serbia will certainly become a full-fledged member of the EU and that its membership is not questionable. Pointing out that Serbia has already made significant progress on its EU pathway, the French minister said that “much more effort needs to be made in …

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) adopted late Thursday a resolution on the political situation in the Balkans. “The PACE urged all the countries of the region to work towards reconciliation and enhancement of dialogue”, head of the Serbian

Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović said Friday he and EU facilitator Robert Cooper agreed that the dialogue needed to continue as soon as possible. He added and that an independent investigation into the incidents at the Jarinje administrative crossing was necessary.

The Croatian government in Zagreb on did not back down from the draft law on the annulment of indictments issued in Serbia. Jadranka Kosor’s cabinet even proposed a declaration alongside this regulation claiming that

Kairgeldy Kabyldin, president of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas company KazMunaiGas discussed increasing Kazakh energy exports to Europe with Bulgarian Energy Minister Traycho Traykov during the latter’s visit to the Kazakh capital Astana.

Serbian President Boris Tadić has stated that “at this moment South-East European countries have no other choice but to continue with their EU integration”. Speaking in the town of Aranđelovac in central Serbia on Thursday, he noted that in that process, they have to at the same time rely on …

Romania resolutely supports the EU and NATO integration of Macedonia, stated Romanian President Traian Basescu after meeting Macedonian counterpart George Ivanov in Bucharest. Ivanov is on a two-day official visit to Romania in a bid