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Bosnia’s Social Democrats have announced they will begin the official formation of the Federation government today without main Croat parties, who have suggested they will request early elections. The constituent session of the House of Peoples in Bosnia’s mainly Bosniak-Croat Federation

The main opposition party SDSM will not drop its boycott of parliament unless the ruling VMRO-DPMNE meets its key demands concerning the electoral code, updating voting lists and unfreezing the bank accounts of A1 TV, SDSM leader Branko Crvenkovski said on Tuesday (March 15th) after a marathon meeting wit

Political representatives and officials in Kosovo are lined up against a proposal by the International Crisis Group (ICG) that Kosovo should give extended autonomy to its north in exchange for Serbian recognition. Parliament Speaker Jakup Krasniqi said on Tuesday (March 15th) that any

Kosovo President Behgjet Pacolli is asking NATO countries to train the highest ranking Kosovo Security Force (KSF) officials in their academies. Pacolli thanked NATO for its contribution in Kosovo and its role in establishing and

written by: Ioannis Michaletos, Source: worldsecuritynetwork.com The outlook of Serbia in the field of regional cooperation and border issues, reveals that the country seem eager to implement regional cooperation policies aimed at the so-called “asymmetrical threats” of organized crime, international terrorism, illegal immigration, environmental pollution, money laundering and extremism. Most …

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has decided to dissolve the Macedonian parliament on March 31 and call early parliamentary elections. He made the decision after a ten-hour talk with biggest opposition party Social-Democratic Alliance of Macedonia (SDSM) leader Branko Crvenkovski. The early elections would be called within the next 60 days …

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić stated on Tuesday that Serbia is committed to the Dayton Accord, which ended the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. However he added, according to reports, that it was necessary that democratically elected representatives were in power in Bosnia-Herzegovina, rather than governors appointed from abroad.

Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor confirmed that her government would do everything needed to finish accession talks with the EU until the end of June. She met in Zagreb with European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Croatia Hanes Svoboda and a delegation from the EP’s foreign affairs committee. Svoboda expressed his …

A meeting of the leaders of Bosniak and Croat parties, which began about 4 pm yesterday at the Office of the High Representative, was completed last night after 9 pm, but the politicians did not announce that a government had been formed.

The war crimes court in Belgrade convicted four former paramilitary members Monday (March 14th) of killing civilians during the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. Cedo Budisavljevic, Mirko Malinovic, Milan Bogunovic and Bogdan Grujicic were sentenced to 12 years in prison each. They were found guilty of killing the five-member Rakic family …