Balkans

Serbian customs officials are respecting the new deal on trade exports from Kosovo but Kosovo businesses have yet to take advantage of the new market, Kosovo Trade and Industry Minister Mimoza Kusari-Lila has said. Kusari-Lila said that seven trucks carrying Kosovo-made products had been allowed to enter Serbia, which had …

Albanian Foreign Minister Edmond Haxhinasto has asked the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council, Muhammad Jibril, to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, when the government is formed in Tripoli. Haxhinasto and Jibril met on Friday on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in …

Efforts to resolve the two-decade long name dispute between Macedonia and Greece have been overshadowed by escalating concerns over the Euro crisis. Gerald Knaus, head of the European Stability Initiative, ESI, a multi-national research and policy institute told Macedonian media that the Euro crisis had distracted

Serbia’s Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković has said that Serbia has fulfilled all conditions necessary to get the EU candidate status. He added, however, that Serbia would not give up on its state policy.

The European Commission’s report on Macedonia’s progress will be fair and based on facts and will cover the country’s achievements made in the past 12

The next round of talks between Belgrade and Pristina scheduled for next Wednesday will take place most probably. Belgrade keeps on insisting on a special status for North Kosovo. However, Brussels thinks it is impossible to give Kosovo a special status, but in future it might become something like an …

Serbian President Boris Tadić will address the UN General Assembly on Friday, within the General Debate that began on September 21. The Serbian president will hold a series of bilateral meetings with officials from around the world on the sidelines of the session. 

Serbian Army (VS) Infantry Squad will take part in a UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus. VS Chief of General Staff General Miloje Miletić and his associates saw off from the Nis military airport Friday morning VS members to Cyprus.

Bulgaria will try to persuade the Netherlands and Finland to change their opposition to Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to the Schengen visa zone, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) on September 22 2011.

The European Union warned Bosnia on Thursday it could lose almost 100 million euros (135 million dollars) of the bloc’s funds for 2011 due to internal political disputes and gave it a few days to agree over the issue. EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele “regrets that Bosnia-Hercegovina is the