Balkans

Some progress made after second round of Kosovo talks

Kosovo and Serbia have said that some progress has been made on issues of cadastre and land registers, as well as energy supply, at the second round of talks in Brussels. “There has been some progress on the cadastre and registers and issues of energy supply (…) and we hope …

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Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian PMs to meet

Serbian President Boris Tadic will meet with the prime ministers of Slovenia and Croatia in Smederevo on Friday to discuss economic cooperation and international issues. The gathering in the central Serbia town will be the officials’ second trilateral meeting. The first was held in the Slovenian city of Ptuj in …

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Stefan Fule: Serbia may get EU member state candidate status by end-2011

It is possible for Serbia to obtain a status of EU member state candidate by the end of the year, said European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule. The European Commissioner also expressed his hope that the EU will make no difference between the member state status and the beginning of …

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Tadic: Serbia tries to solve historical conflict of Serbs, Albanians in Kosovo

Serbian President Boris Tadic said that Serbia is ready to solve the historical conflict between the Serbs and the Albanians in Kosovo. “Serbia is trying to solve the hundred-year old conflict of the Serbs and the Albanians,” Tadic remarked. In his words, if the Serbs are asked whether they are …

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Macedonia’s opposition says the country’s PM does not want democratic elections

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski does not want fair and democratic elections, said Radmila Sekerinska, MP with opposition Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM). In Sekerinska’s words, the elections should be based on a compromise between the ruling and the opposition. According to her, the elections were such when Gruevski’s …

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Bulgarian Parliament’s Speaker visits Georgia

A Bulgarian delegation headed by the Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva started official visit to Georgia on Monday. Tsacheva will hold the first meeting with her Georgian counterpart David Bakradze. The Georgian and Bulgarian parliaments’ speakers will hold a joint press conference after the meeting. After the meeting with Bakradze, Tsacheva …

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Bosnia: Serb, Croat leaders to co-operate in government formation

Leaders of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Croatian Democratic Union of BiH (HDZ BiH), and HDZ 1990 signed a declaration in Mostar on Friday (March 25th) on co-operation in efforts to overcome the crisis in forming a new central government. They urged …

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