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Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said on Wednesday (May 26th) that Serbia may stop co-operating with EULEX following the mission’s decision to ban unauthorised visits by Serbian officials. They have been travelling there to campaign ahead of Sunday’s unauthorised elections in northern Kosovo. Bogdanovic accused EULEX of taking the …

Working groups from Kosovo and Serbia met on Wednesday (May 26th) in Pristina to discuss technical details ahead of the exhumation of a mass grave discovered in Raska, southern Serbia, earlier this month. “We expect the work to begin intensively in two to three weeks at the latest,” Pajazit Nushi, …

Representatives of Serbian government and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, have reached agreement on the fourth review of the country’s stand-by arrangement, which will enable Serbia to draw down €380 million. Addressing reporters on Wednesday, Serbian Minister of Finance Diana Dragutinovic said that due to slowed economic growth in Serbia, …

US and UK diplomats think that Serbian President Boris Tadic could use his authority to be the mediator and influence a positive outcome of the Slovenian referendum for the arbitrary agreement for the border dispute with Croatia, scheduled for June 6, and also for

Serbian President Boris Tadić will next week pay a three-day visit to Greece, his office told Tanjug on Wednesday. Tadić’s visit was also confirmed in Athens. The president will visit Greece from June 1 to 3 at the invitation of his counterpart Karolos Papoulias.

Pieter Feith, head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, believes the International Court of Justice’s ruling on the legality of Kosovo’s independence will be delivered before the end of July.

Romanian President Traian Basescu is on an official visit to Skopje today, where he is meeting with his Macedonian counterpart George Ivanov. Speaking at a joint press conference with Ivanov in the Macedonian capital, Basescu said that Bucharest would accept any solution on the name issue that is reached between …

Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, will join prosecutors from the region for a two-day conference in Brioni, Croatia on cooperation in war crimes prosecution.

The European Commission announced today its adoption of a proposal to lift the visa regime for Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the two countries must still fulfill remaining benchmarks before their citizens can travel without a visa in the Schengen zone.

The Prime Ministers of Serbia and Slovenia, Mirko Cvetkovic and Borut Pahor, on Wednesday expressed their desire to deal with unresolved issues from their shared past and to focus on the shared future of EU membership for the west Balkan region.