Balkans

The prospects for bilateral political and economic cooperation will be considered in Baku. The negotiations will be held within Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis’s visit to Azerbaijan on November 28-29. Kouvelis, as a co-chairman of the intergovernmental

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) politicians Wednesday (October 27th) to come up with a new development strategy for the country. In an address to the European Parliament’s (EP)

Montenegro’s government will declassify all documents related to the deportation of Bosnian refugees in 1992, in order to shed full light on the events, Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marovic announced

Two independent lawmakers, Naim Rrustemi and Driton Tali, have asked the Central Elections Commission (CEC) to exclude the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) from participating in the next general elections, local media

The European Parliament welcomed the decision of the EU ministers to approve a new step toward Serbia’s membership in the union. The EP also and called on all EU countries to ratify the agreement as soon as possible.

Serbia plans to offer EUR 10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the Balkans’ most wanted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, an official said Thursday. Earlier this week, European Union foreign ministers agreed to ask the bloc’s executive commission

A meeting between the prime ministers of Macedonia and Greece is to take place in Brussels on Thursday. The meeting is scheduled for this afternoon, within the framework of the European Council summit. The two prime ministers will have a dialogue on the name issue.

The Croatian parliament has voted down the no-confidence vote in the government of Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor. After a 15-hour debate 79 MPs voted against and 62 in favor of the motion, which was tabled by 58 MPs from opposition parties.

A conference on the fight against organized crime and corruption in the Balkans will be held in Brussels on Thursday. The gathering will be organized by the Serbian Justice Ministry.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Wednesday that the date and topics for the Belgrade-Priština dialogue are up to the sides. “Serbian President Boris Tadić and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci are now ready to start the dialogue,” she said answering questions of MPs in the European Parliament …