Balkans

Head of the Russian Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev said that Serbia has to decide on its own whether it wants to join NATO. He added however that he doubts that the Serb people, after the tragedy they endured during the Alliance bombing of 1999, would want to join …

Serbian and Croatian Presidents Boris Tadić and Ivo Josipović could meet on January 18, the inauguration day of the new Croatian leader. Josipović announced that we will be meeting with his Serbian counterpart soon. 

Serbian President Boris Tadić said that there will be a resolution on Serb victims adopted along with the resolution condemning the Srebrenica crimes. He said that he initiated the Srebrenica resolution, which has been finished, because he believes that “this question is not a partisan or a political one, but …

Serbian President Boris Tadić said on Tuesday that he expects the negotiations on the status of Kosovo to continue after the ICJ ruling. The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) is expected to give its advisory opinion this year on the legality of the February 2008 unilateral independence declaration, made …

Greece shall not be excluded from the euro zone, but Athens must take serious measures to decrease the budget deficit, European Commissioner Olli Rehn said during his address to the Parliament on Tuesday. Rehn pointed out that Greece is a special case and pointed out that in February Athens will …

The former EU envoy for Kosovo, Wolfgang Ischinger, says Serbia should resolve its disagreements with Kocoso as a part of its EU accession process. The German Ambassador said that Serbia knows about these conditions and there is a general acceptance to find a solution within the context of Serbia’s EU …

Newly elected Croatian President Ivo Josipović says he believes relations between Croatia and Serbia are strategic. He also expressing belief that he will soon meet with Serbian President Boris Tadić. Josipović said that the idea that both countries should drop the lawsuits for genocide before the International Court of Justice …

The Kosovo government and political parties in Priština reject all possibilities of new status negotiations with Serbia regarding the status of Kosovo. Kosovo Albanian government spokesman Memli Krasniqi said that “the Kosovo government will never agree to negotiations with Belgrade regarding Kosovo’s status. The status of our country is irreversible.”

The main opposition party claims that the government is secretly preparing constitutional changes that should impede the free work of the constitutional court. Prime Minister and ruling VMRO DPMNE head, Nikola Gruevski wants to deal with the judges who constantly reassess and annul his laws, an opposition legislator from the …

Administrativna komisija parlamenta BiH jučer nije prihvatila inicijativu SDP BiH o smanjenju plaća i naknada dužnosnicima u institucijama BiH. Predsjedavajući ove komisije Remzija Kardić potvrdio je da su juče ukinute dnevnice od po 50 KM za dolazak na sjednice redovnih parlamentarnih komisija. “Nismo mogli prihvatiti inicijativu SDP-a o smanjenju plaća …