Balkans

Ukraine’s President Victor Yanukovych said Friday at the press conference, marking his 100 days at the presidential office, that he refuses to recognize independence of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Kosovo.

An unofficial deadline set in a meeting in Strasbourg for Albanian political leaders to resolve the country’s political crisis expired on Thursday with no solution in sight. After meeting with EU representatives in Strasbourg two weeks ago, Albania’s main political parties have failed to reach an agreement to overcome the …

Slovenians are voting in a referendum on Sunday (June 6th) on an agreement on settling their country’s border issues with neighbouring Croatia

Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik on Friday (June 4th) rejected a statement by Kosovo Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni, who said BiH

Kosovo’s judiciary is still too weak to handle the challenges it faces, and its reform capabilities are too fragile, EULEX said in a report on Friday (June 4th). The Programme Report 2010 is based on 12-month surveillance by EULEX monitors placed within Kosovo justice, police

BiH – Members of the European People’s Party (EPP) group gathered on Saturday (June 5th) at a conference in Sarajevo to discuss co-operation and EU integration. In a joint statement they voiced support for the EU perspective for all countries from the region. The participants also stressed that perpetrators of …

Talks to reunify Cyprus are continuing in line with the parameters that have already been agreed between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders and the UN, Alexander Downer, the UN secretary-general’s special adviser on Cyprus, said on Friday (June 4th). “All chapters are being negotiated with the aim of increasing …

Setting a date for Macedonia’s EU accession talks will double the country’s enthusiasm for adopting reforms, Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki told media on Thursday. Milososki made the remarks after a regular meeting of Macedonian government officials

The Greek army has stated that it will considerably reduce its presence in the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. This comes as Athens is fighting a large debt crisis, the Albanian language media in Priština reported on Friday.

Foreign ministers of Serbia and Slovakia, Vuk Jeremić and Miroslav Lajčak, met on Thursday on Bratislava. They said that the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sarajevo earlier this week had confirmed the EU’s commitment to continued enlargement.