Balkans

European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso will kick off a Balkan tour next week. He will start by visiting Croatia on April 7th, then he will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia.

The justice ministry has approved Milojko Nikolic’s extradition to Serbia, media reported on Friday (April 1st). A former member of a Serb paramilitary group and a member of “The Jackals” paramilitary unit suspected of

Macedonia’s Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska and her visiting Kosovo counterpart Bajram Rexhepi signed an agreement on Friday (April 1st) establishing joint patrols at the Macedonia-Kosovo border. The deal will enable better border management and contribute to increasing of the overall security, the two officials estimated. They also discussed the possibilities …

Serbia’s President Boris Tadic and Prime Ministers of Croatia and Slovenia, Jadranka Kosor and Borut Pahor, reaffirmed on Friday (April 1st) their will to boost economic co-operation and participate together on

The Belgrade-Priština dialogue has no alternative and its goal is to close some of the open topics, Head of Belgrade’s negotiating team Borko Stefanovic says. He announced at the panel discussion organized by the New Policy Center on Friday that the third round of the talks, which were first launched …

Delegation from the Kosovo Ministry of Interior, headed by Minister Bajram Rexhepi, will pay a working visit to their Macedonian counterparts today. Macedonian Minister of Interior Gordana Jankuloska will have a tete-a-tete meeting with colleague Rexhepi, followed by a plenary session of the two delegations. The two will sign a …

Serbian President Boris Tadic has began his meeting with PMs of Slovenia Borut Pahor and Croatia Jadranka Kosor in the central Serbian town of Smederevo today. The meeting would be held at the Golden Hill (Zlatni Breg) villa near Smederevo. After the talks, Tadić, Pahor and Kosor will address the …

There is ambiguity over Kosovo’s Behgjet Pacolli’s status as president Thursday (March 31st), following a full ruling Wednesday by the Constitutional Court. The court agreed that Pacolli’s election by parliament last month violated

The Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Steering Board wrapped up two days of meetings in Sarajevo on Wednesday (March 30th) expressing deep concern that six months after the October 3rd general elections, BiH still

The second round of talks between Belgrade and Pristina has led to some progress, although not within the expectations of Serbia. According to the head of the Serbian delegation Borislav Stefanovic there is progress on issues related to the cadastre and birth certificates.