Balkans

Finland will follow the Netherlands’ examples and veto Bulgaria and Romania’s Schengen accession, Romania’s Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi has revealed after meeting his Dutch and Finnish counterparts. “However, we need consensus and we need a positive vote on behalf of all EU member states,” Baconschi has declared after he met …

Tuesday night was peacefully in northern Kosovo. Several Serb citizens spent the night at the roadblocks at the

Serbia’s PM Mirko Cvetković said Wednesday that EU membership was Serbia’s strategic goal and that the government had been working hard on it for years. He added that it would guarantee a better future for all its citizens. Speaking at a business conference entitled Euro Vision, Cvetković

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk officially delivered Croatia’s EU accession treaty text to the head of the Croatian government, prime minister Jadranka Kosor, at a ceremony in Zagreb on the weekend. “The great effort of the Croatians, and your government will pay off in the future. I say

Macedonia could get its much-desired start date for EU accession talks by the end of this year provided it reaches a “name” compromise with Greece by then, says European Parliament rapporteur on Macedonia, Richard Howitt. 

Macedonia will keep the European Commission recommendation to start negotiations for EU membership, but the country will not negotiate while Brussels sees no progress in talks on the name. That is what unnamed

Bulgaria will join the Schengen zone for sure, but the exact date is the issue, according to US Ambassador in Sofia, James Warlick. The diplomat said on Tuesday, pointing out that Bulgaria had fulfilled all technical requirements and Brussels will give it a green

KFOR members removed on Tuesday morning barbed wire from the Brnjak administrative crossing, which was shut down on September 16. German and French troops of the NATO forces in the province removed the barbed wire from the checkpoint.

In a letter to Brussels, Pristina warns that it will reactivate its trade ban with Serbia if Belgrade fails to honour the September 2 deal. Kosovo’s government on Monday sent a letter to the European Union, calling

The UN envoy in the Greece-Macedonia ‘name’ talks, Matthew Nimetz, has no plans to visit Athens and Skopje any time soon, Greek media report him as saying in New York. Greek media reported that Nimetz said this after a meeting in New York with the Greek Foreign Minister, Stavros Lambrinidis, …