Balkans

European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia, Jelko Kacin, said that the proclamation of the Vojvodina statute is a sign of maturity in Serbia. He said that it is also a sign of Serbia’s political will to turn itself into a modern and functional country.

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen will visit Belgrade on Wednesday, it was announced.

Albania’s opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama urged the government either to recount the ballots cast in June parliamentary elections or hold another.

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has been re-elected as leader of the governing Democratic Party (DP). The party convention voted 1.204 to 5 late on Monday to retain Berisha. He was the only candidate and will serve a four-year term. In his address to party convention, Berisha said the Democratic …

Bosnia and Herzegovina will chair the Ministerial meeting of the Adriatic group countries on Tuesday. The ministers will discuss the regional cooperation in the frameworks of the Adriatic group, NATO integration, ISAF mission as well as

Greece’s recently elected socialist government is to create a new social deal as it battles the country’s worsening financial crisis. Calling for national unity, the new administration has vowed to reduce Greece’s public debt deficit from the current 12 percent to under 3 percent by 2013.

Visoki predstavnik Valentin Incko produžio je jučer mandat stranim sudijama i tužiocima angažiranim na predmetima ratnih zločina za još tri godine. Međunarodne sudije i tužioci koji su radili na predmetima organizovanog kriminala, terorizma i korpucije nastavit će raditi u Sudu i Tužilaštvu BiH kao savjetnici bez vremenskog ograničenja trajanja angažmana.

The European Union’s new President Herman Van Rompuy on Monday praised the efforts of Bulgaria’s new government to fight recession and clean the Balkan country’s image marred by rampant corruption and crime. The center-right cabinet of Boiko Borisov, which won July general elections, has taken steps to punish corrupt officials, …

Montenegrin Deputy PM Svetozar Marović says his country “most sincerely wants to have the best possible relations with Serbia”. Podgorica will not establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules on the legality of the unilateral Kosovo Albanian proclamation, he said.

European Council President-designate Herman van Rompuy will pay a brief working visit to Bulgaria on December 14 2009, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told journalists in Brussels.