Balkans

Ivo Josipovic, Croatia’s newly elected president, in an interview for Bosnian media this weekend, said it is too early to talk about withdrawing the law suit at the International Court of Justice, ICJ, against Serbia for genocide, filed in 1999. “With that suit certain goals should have been achieved. When …

Serbain President Boris Tadić says that Serbia would never support a referendum that would lead to the splitting of Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Serbia will not support any act or referendum that would lead to the splitting of Bosnia, since Serbia is a guarantor of the Dayton Agreement,” Tadić old Sarajevo …

Komisija za odbranu i sigurnost parlamenta BiH trebalo bi da raspravlja o zakonitosti odluke direktora Državne agencije za istrage i zaštitu BiH da policajca pod istragom za ratne zločine rasporedi na dužnost načelnika Odjela za zaštitu svjedoka u SIPA. Raspravu o ovoj odluci direktora SIPA Mirka Lujića na jednoj od …

Vlada Federacije BiH najavila je realizaciju deset milijardi KM vrijednih projekata u elektroenergetskom sektoru. Federalni premijer i ministar industrije, energetike i rudarstva, koji potiču iz dvije bratske, ali zaraćene stranke, udružili su snage i javnosti poručili da slijedi gradnja nekoliko termoelektrana i hidroelektrana. Lijepo zvuči, ali… Gradnja elektroenergetskih objekata svakako …

The Name dispute must be solved in order Macedonia to join NATO, NATO Secretary General Andres Fogh Rasmussen said at the meeting with Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski in Brussels. Rasmussen urged for name settlement and expressed hope to see Macedonia as NATO member state very soon. Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola …

Situation along the Bulgarian –Greek border is so far calm. This is what head of Smolyan Border Police Regional Directorate Commissary Todor Georgiev said. Although all checkpoints work normally and there are no lines of waiting vehicles, Commissary Georgiev warns people to restrict from travelling to Greece. The reason is …

Greek officials are bracing for a European Union grilling next week over faulty national statistics as the country awaits approval of a national crisis plan on its debt-hit economy. European finance ministers on Tuesday are to tell Athens to clean up its accounting practices and improve the administration of key …

Cypriot President Dimitri Christofias started an official visit to Greece Saturday. Christofias was received by his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias at the Athens Presidential Mansion. Christofias, who is also the leader of the Greek Cypriot community, briefed Papoulias on his talks last week with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat …

NATO reiterated that its doors remain opened for Macedonia, but only after a solution to its name dispute with Athens is reached. “There is not shortcut: we made the decision in Bucharest, that we will start accession talks with Skopje immediately after a mutually acceptable solution is found. I encourage …

Serbia’s foreign minister Vuk Jeremic has ordered the immediate withdrawal of Serbia’s ambassador in Podgorica following Montenegro’s decision to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo. Jeremic asked the ambassador to return to Belgrade for consultations. After much discussion about when the right time is to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo, Montenegro’s …