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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Albania Court To Review Greek Territorial Deal
Albania’s constitutional court accepted on Thursday an appeal by the opposition Socialist Party to review the legality of a territorial agreement with Greece, which delineates the continental shelf between the two countries in the Ionian Sea.
Read More »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 …
Read More »SPC to appoint new Patriarch in January
Serbian Orthodox Church will choose new Patriarch on January 22 next year, church’s Holy Synod said. Serbian Orthodox Church didn’t give any details, but said that the new Patriarch has to be chosen by February 15 the latest.
Read More »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 …
Read More »EULEX accuses judge of taking bribes
EULEX has accused Judge Elez Hodzu from the District Court of Priština of taking bribes and he will be put on trial at the beginning of next year.
Read More »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 …
Read More »Macedonia’s Ahmeti Optimistic on Name
The head of Macedonia’s junior governing party, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, Ali Ahmeti has expressed optimism about a possible solution to the on-going name row with Greece.
Read More »Western Envoy: Situation in Bosnia “Worrisome”
Bosnia’s top envoy Valentin Inzko met US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, on the second leg of a US tour in which he has highlighted the growing sence of urgency in Bosnia’s worsening political crisis.
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