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MACEDONIA Visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu reiterated his country’s support to Macedonia’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic community as well as to good relations between Macedonia and Turkey. Davutoglu held talks with his Macedonian counterpart Antonio Milososki on Friday. The two reaffirmed the good political, economic and cultural ties between …

Cancelarul german a declarat, miercuri, in cadrul unei interventii in parlament, ca la reuniunea Consiliului European de primavara, care se desfasoara joi si vineri la Bruxelles, va insista ca Fondul Monetar International (FMI) sa participe si el la un eventual spijin acordat autoritatilor de la Atena, alaturi de statele din …

There were no breakthroughs in the Athens-Skopje name gridlock after the prime ministers of the two countries, Nikola Gruevski and George Papandreou, met on Thursday in Brussels. “The positions of Macedonia and Greece on the name issue in general remain far apart even after today’s meeting,” Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio …

The European Union-backed gas pipeline Nabucco is likely to begin operations in 2018, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said, a statement which was later denied by the consortium behind the project. “I hope we will make the final decision in 2010 to build the pipeline,” he said. The odds of …

The European Commission (EC) will publish a report on April 15th regarding Albania’s progress in meeting criteria for EU visa liberalisation. A similar evaluation will be made for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH); a high-ranking EC official was quoted as saying on Wednesday (March 24th). Brussels has reportedly urged officials in …

The meeting between Macedonian and Greek prime ministers has ended without comments for the press. As the Macedonian government said earlier the two ministers discussed the name

Dutch FM Maxime Verhagen says Serbia’s progress in EU integration will not be on the agenda before Serge Brammertz submits his next report. The chief Hague prosecutor’s new report is due in June. “The position of the Netherlands remains unchanged in principle. Last December we responded to Brammertz’s positive report …

The EU enlargement commissioner said that “border demarcation is part of good neighborly relations and regional cooperation, which countries should solve bilaterally.”

SARAJEVO Strane državnike tokom posjete BiH osigurava posebna jedinica Državne agencije za istrage i zaštitu (SIPA) i njeni djelatnici štitili su u utorak brojnu delegaciju NATO-a koju je predvodio generalni sekretar ove organizacije Anders Fog Rasmusen.

MADRID, SARAJEVO, BANJALUKA Predstavnici američke administracije i španskog predsjedništva EU ovih dana vode razgovore sa liderima bh. političkih stranaka o tekstu nove deklaracije o opredijeljenosti BiH za evroatlantske integracije, potvrdio je za “Nezavisne” Dragan Čović, predsjednik HDZ BiH. On je u srijedu u Madridu razgovarao sa Miguelom Angelom Moratinosom, španskim …