Balkans

A visiting U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday that Serbia and the United States had improved their bilateral relations. They shared the same vision of Serbia in the European Union, said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon.

Greece has decided to inform its partners, allies and international organizations about plans for a monument to be constructed in Skopje. Athens believes that the decision to build the monument, named “Warrior on a Horse”, is an act of provocation.

Angry youths hurled petrol bombs at Greece’s Finance Ministry and tens of thousands of protesters marched on parliament on Wednesday to oppose government efforts to pass new

Kosovo’s foreign minister Enver Hoxhaj on Wednesday accused Serbia of stalling tactics similar to those employed in the hunt for Ratko Mladic to delay any outcome of Belgrade’s talks with Pristina.

As Serbia delays the start of the fifth round of Belgrade-Pristina talks, the Kosovo side suggests that Belgrade just doesn’t want to sign any firm agreements. The fifth round of Belgrade-Pristina talks scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday has been postponed as a result of procedural issues, Milivoje Mihajlovic, head of …

Bulgaria and Romania cooperated well in their efforts to enter the Schengen Area, the countries’ interior ministers said days after their bids to join the zone were blocked by the EU. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov and his Romanian counterpart Traian Constantin Igas met in Sofia on Tuesday for a …

Participants of the Strategic Military Partner Conference in Belgrade will adopt conclusions and wrap up the conference on Wednesday. Representatives of 60 countries, including members of NATO, Partnership for Peace, Mediterranean

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon met on Wednesday in Belgrade with Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić. Gordon started his tour of the Balkans in Bosnia-Herzegovina and will also visit Priština, and then Croatia by June 17.

Testifying at Radovan Karadzic’s trial, an expert witness says that Bosnian Serb authorities organised the removal of the non-Serb population from areas under their control. Dorothea Hanson, an expert witness who drafted a report on the establishment and functioning of Serb crisis committees and wartime presidencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, …

Bosnia’s central presidency on Tuesday finally nominated a prime minister to end an eight-month political impasse but warned that the crisis would be exacerbated if the candidate is rejected. The chairman of the rotating three-man presidency, Bosnian Serb Nebojsa Radmanovic, announced the nomination of Bosnian Croat Slavo Kukic but added …