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I hope that Macedonian and Greek governments will use the remaining time of Spain’s mandate as the holder of the EU’s rotating presidency to solve name issue and finally get a green light by EU member states for start of accession talks with EU, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said.

SARAJEVO Problem raspodjele nepokretne vojne imovine neće biti riješen do predstojećeg NATO samita 22. aprila, na kojem će ponovo biti razmatrana aplikacija BiH za Akcioni plan za članstvo (MAP). Podjela vojne imovine jedan je od ključnih preduslova za BiH za dobijanje članstva u MAP-u, što je posljednji korak prije punopravnog …

Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said that Albania will continue to cooperate with Serbia for the sake of the Albanians in the Preševo Valley. He said that Tirana will cooperate with Belgrade to improve on the rights and integration of Albanians in southern Serbia. Meta said that policies of good …

Serbian President Boris Tadić said that even though 22 countries of the EU have recognized Kosovo, recognition is not a condition for Serbia’s integration. “Any other situation would be a very big problem and the integration process would be blocked,” Tadić said at a joint press conference held

Macedonia is fully committed to reaching a mutually acceptable solution to Greece-imposed name issue, which impedes Macedonia’s NATO membership, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said.

Serbian President Boris Tadic told EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday (March 26th) that Belgrade’s goal is to get EU candidate status by the end of this year or in early 2011. He reiterated that his country will continue to co-operate with The Hague war crimes

A draft resolution condemning crimes committed in Srebrenica in July 1995 moved to parliament’s docket Saturday (March 27th), submitted by 114 lawmakers from the ruling coalition. According to its text, parliament strongly condemns the 1995 Srebrenica crimes against Bosniaks, as confirmed by the

Leaders of the main political parties agreed on Friday (March 26th) that the arbitration border agreement with Croatia will be submitted to a binding referendum, once parliament ratifies the document. The Constitutional Court endorsed the agreement with Zagreb last week, giving parliament the green light to ratify the deal. Croatia …

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou late Thursday hailed as a “very satisfactory decision” a European move to extend a rescue package to debt-laden Athens, in comments to Greek public television. “Europe has taken a step forward … Europe and Greece will emerge stronger from this crisis,” Papandreou said.

A European Union office is set to be opened today in the northern, mostly Serb part of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica. The office’s main goal, it was announced, will be to promote EU values and lower tensions in this part of Kosovo. The office, dubbed “EU House”, …