Balkans

Philip Gordon, assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs will visit Skopje on Thursday and meet Macedonian top officials, US State Department said. Gordon is scheduled to meet Macedonian President Gjorgje Ivanov and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. Gordon will also visit Serbia and Kosovo.

Obnova sarajevske Vijećnice traje godinama i trenutno se ne nazire kraj radova. Odugovlačenje s obnovom jedne od najvećih znamenitosti Sarajeva, čije je spaljivanje dokaz barbarstva u proteklom ratu, dosad je pravdano nedostatkom novca. Računica pak pokazuje da je osigurano čak šest miliona KM više nego što je predračunom radova predviđeno …

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, is set to arrive in Belgrade today to hold talks with the Serbian government on the fourth review of the country’s stand-by arrangement. In an interview with daily Politika on Tuesday, the IMF’s representative in Serbia, Bogdan Lissovolik, said that agreement

Macedonia today takes over the rotating chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, holding the post for the first time since the country gained independence. Despite Greek opposition to the name “Macedonian Chairmanship 2010”, which Skopje chose to title its six month

Albania may be included in a list of countries where NATO’s missile defence shield will be deployed, local media reported on Sunday (May 9th). According to diplomatic sources, NATO is looking into whether to include Albania alongside Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. The issue was discussed last month when NATO Secretary-General …

Political and economic criteria that Kosovo is required to meet are the main priorities of the integrations ministry, Minister Besim Beqaj said on Sunday (May 9th), Europe Day, a state holiday in Kosovo. Speaking at a conference on EU integration, Beqaj said that Pristina is confronting the challenges it faces, …

“Bulgaria has always done everything it could to help Macedonia, since its independence. I think that this is well known by the Albanian political parties, as well as by the other parties,” Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov said.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made an official visit to Croatia over the weekend and praised the country for the progress it has made in the nearly 20 years it has been an independent nation. Speaking at a press conference in Zagreb, the prime minister noted that this was the …

It is in strategically importance for Bulgaria all neighboring states to meet the EU accession criteria and to become a part of the European Union. This is what Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov said. Today he is paying a visit to Montenegro, which puts the beginning of the second part …

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution believes that it has the location of a mass grave containing the bodies of ethnic Albanians. 250 bodies are believed to have been buried in the southwestern Raška area. “Thanks to our cooperation with EULEX, according to our information, we have a grave in the …