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Changes to the Lisbon Treaty will not slow down Croatia’s EU accession, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Saturday (October 30th), adding that her government expects to close all negotiations chapters in the spring of

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu for talks in New York, the UN announced on Saturday (October 30th). The meeting is to take place at UN headquarters on November 18th. The latest round of direct talks to reunify the divided …

NATO is going into the second stage of reduction of its military presence in Kosovo to 5,000 troops, Priština-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore writes. Quoting NATO sources, the daily points out that the decision

A former policeman from Sarajevo testifies at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and says that more than 1,000 children were killed in the city during the course of the war. “According to Safety Services Centre’s estimates, between 10 and eleven thousand civilians were killed in Sarajevo. …

Vuk Jeremić said that Serbia was ready for dialogue with Priština and that “it would be better for everybody if the process started as soon as possible”. “As far as we are concerned it can begin right now. Officials from Brussels, who will play a mediator role, are also ready,” …

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.