Balkans

Germany’s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is set to meet Serbia’s top officials today. This will be his first official Balkan tour. Westerwelle is scheduled to meet Serbian PM Mirko Cvetkovic and Serbian President Boris Tadic. In the afternoon he is set to meet his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic.

Helmuth Lohan, the outgoing head of the EU delegation in Tirana, praised the work of Albanian institutions and said he is convinced that EU integration is a process that is

Opposition leader and former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Ramush Haradinaj will be banned from taking part in politics if he is released from The Hague while he awaits a war crimes retrial, EULEX officials have stated.

The EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has provided guarantees for the temporary release of Ramush Haradinaj. The Kosovo Albanian politician and

UNMIK chief Lamberto Zannier will be in Belgrade today for meetings with Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dačić and Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović. Kosovo and Metohija Ministry

The State advisor for foreign affairs of Macedonian President Gjorgje Ivanov, Darko Kostadinovski said that Macedonia and Russia will soon sign a cooperation and friendship memorandum, adding that

The European Parliament’s (EP) Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will discuss a report next week assessing whether BiH has met conditions required to scrap visa requirements for its citizens. The panel

Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni said on Monday (August 23rd) that Kosovo will not offer a counter resolution to the document Serbia has submitted to the UN General Assembly for discussion next month. Kosovo

Bulgaria and Macedonia have agreed on using every occasion and all opportunities in order to intensify economic and trade relations, the Bulgarian President’s press office informs.

The newly appointed Turkish Ambassador to Macedonia Gjurol Sokmensuer has handed in his credentials to Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio Milosksi on Tuesday. During the meeting the officials saluted the positive and successful development of relations between the two countries.