Balkans

Tadic: Different approach to Kosovo issue

Serbian President Boris Tadic announced that Serbia needs to take different approach regarding Kosovo issue and added that Serbia’s inflexibility is the main problem. “Different approach in the negotiations with Kosovo is what Serbia needs to do. Inflexibility is one of the key problems we are facing. Today, more than …

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Swedish FM in Macedonia ahead of name row talks

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt visited Skopje Thursday on the eve of a meeting of Macedonian and Greece officials aimed at resolving an 18-year-old name dispute, officials said. Bildt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, met Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, the government said …

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Kuper: Za EU potrebne skromne promjene Ustava

Za otvaranje puta BiH prema EU su potrebne skromne promjene u Ustavu, izjavio je juče u Banjaluci Robert Kuper, generalni direktor za inostrane i vojnopolitičke poslove pri Generalnom sekretarijatu Savjeta EU. Kuper je nakon sastanka s Miloradom Dodikom, premijerom RS i liderom SNSD-a, kojem je dostavio nove prijedloge u vezi …

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Serbia, DCAF sign protocol in Geneva

Serbia’s Interior Ministry and police (MUP) have very good cooperation with the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). This is according to Interior Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dačić, who added in Geneva on Wednesday that Belgrade wants to improve it with the aim of …

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Hopes for help for Western Balkans to join the EU, but ‘will not be quick or simple’.

Enlarging the European Union to bring in further countries from South Eastern Europe will mean 100 million new EU citizens and will “not be a quick or simple process”, Carl Bildt, foreign minister of Sweden, told the European Parliament on November 25 2009.   Sweden currently holds the presidency of …

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