Eurasia Press & News
Bulgaria could get back 13.5 million euro of its installment to the European Union as part of an amount that is in excess of the bloc’s 2010 budget, socialist MEP Ivailo Kalfin said on May 5 2011.
Read More »Serbia’s visa liberalization could be temporarily suspended due to false asylum seekers
Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Vincent Degert has stated that Serbia’s visa liberalization could be temporarily suspended due to false asylum seekers. He added that the discussion had only recently started.
Read More »Croatia will continue to cooperate with ICTY
Croatia’s Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor vowed on Wednesday (May 4th) continued co-operation with The Hague war crimes tribunal. She met in Zagreb with tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz, ahead of his report
Read More »Bulgaria supports proposals to adjust Schengen rules
Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said on Wednesday (May 4th) that Sofia supports French and Italian proposals to reform Schengen rules, even though the country is still a candidate to join the border-free
Read More »EU facilitator in talk between Belgrade and Pristina presents proposal for solutioning the issues
EU facilitator in the talks between Kosovo and Serbia Robert Cooper presented a proposal Wednesday (May 4th) in Pristina for the solution of issues discussed in the dialogue so far. The possible framework of the agreement
Read More »Serbian President opposed to “one-sided solutions in Bosnia”
Serbian President Boris Tadić has said that he is against imposing any solution on Bosnia-Herzegovina and “suspension of certain politicians”. He has also assessed that speculations that some politicians could be excluded from political life over a referendum called in Bosnia’s Serb entity, the Serb Republic, RS, were “dangerous”.
Read More »Hungarian President visits Serbia
Hungarian President Pal Schmitt is to pay a two-day visit to Serbia on Thursday. He is scheduled to meet with the Serbian state leaders and officials of Vojvodina. Besides the capital Belgrade and the northern city of Novi Sad, the Hungarian president will visit also the northern city of Subotica.
Read More »Greece rejects Schengen reinstatement of border controls
Greece rejects a backtrack in EU’s Schengen free passport zone treaty through the reinstatement of border controls within member countries, said Greek Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis on Wednesday.
Read More »Valentin Inzko says he will veto RS Referendum
Bosnia’s top international figure, High Representative Valentin Inzko, has said he will suspend any decision to call a referendum on the state court and prosecutor if the Bosnian Serb entity, the Republika Srpska, does not do so itself.
Read More »UN Secretary General is expected in Bulgaria today
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Bulgaria on Wednesday for the first leg of a three-country European tour. Ban will meet with Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Foreign Minister
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