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Former Transport Minister Fatmir Limaj handed himself in to District Court of Pristina at a detention hearing at on Thursday. An international judge is soon to decide whether the EULEX arrest warrant for Limaj is to be executed.

Mission to close down by the middle of next year; functions to be handed to EU delegation in Sarajevo. The member states of the European Union have decided to close its 300-member police mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM) by the middle of next year. The decision, which has not …

The Netherlands and Finland have vetoed the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the visa-free Schengen Area at the meeting of the EU Interior Ministers in Brussels today.

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