The leaders of seven parliamentary parties from the Republic of Srpska will be meeting with Serbian President Boris Tadić in Belgrade on Friday. The RS politicians were invited to Belgrade ahead of the next meeting in Butmir between Bosnian politicians and American and EU officials.
Read More »Macedonian PM hopes for date of negotiations with EU
Macedonian prime minister hopes that Macedonian would receive a date for start of negotiations for membership in the European Union, now that the European Commission issued a recommendation for launch of the accession talks. In the letter sent to the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, PM Nikola …
Read More »Berlusconi and Borissov swap medals and vow to boost co-operation
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov became a bearer of the Cavalier of the Grand Cross for having achieved “great contributions to the Italian Republic”, a Bulgarian Government media statement said on October 15 2009. The award was given by Borissov’s Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi at a commemoration ceremony in honour …
Read More »Ambassadors Press Skopje On Name Dispute
The settlement of the Athens-Skopje name row is not an official precondition for Macedonia’s EU accession talks but will create a better climate for the same, ambassadors say. This according to the Swedish and EU ambassadors to Macedonia, Lars Freden and Erwan Fouere. Sweden currently holds the EU presidency.
Read More »Bishop Sentenced for Embezzlement
A renegade former Macdedonian Orthodox Church, MPC, bishop, Jovan Vraniskovski, has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for embezzlement by a Macedonian court. A court in the town of Veles found Vraniskowski guilty of embezzling 320,000 euros while in charge of three Macedonian dioceses. He was …
Read More »Bosnia Celebrates UNSC Berth
The UN General Assembly has elected Bosnia and Herzegovina a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, UNSC, to the delight of local officials. The country’s election is “The biggest achievement of Bosnia and Herzegovina foreign policy since independence in 1992,” boasted the main headline in Friday’s edition of Sarajevo …
Read More »Macedonia’s president visits Turkey
Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov is paying an official visit to Turkey, media reported. Ivanov will meet today in Ankara with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ivanov today will lay a wreath at the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Read More »Mali koraci u promjeni Ustava do kraja godine
BiH do kraja godine treba da napravi male korake u ustavnoj reformi, što je jedan od ciljeva butmirskog procesa, izjavio je juče Lars Vahland, zamjenik direktora za politička pitanja u Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova Švedske, zemlje koja trenutno predsjedava EU. “Bosna i Hercegovina mora imati efikasan sistem odlučivanja zato je potrebno …
Read More »BiH postigla mali napredak
BiH je postigla mali napredak u ispunjenju uslova za pridruživanje EU, a politička klima se pogoršala, navodi se u jučer objavljenom godišnjem izvještaju o napretku BiH ka EU. Izvještaj o napretku predsjedavajućem Vijeća ministara BiH Nikoli Špiriću uručio je šef Delegacije EK u BiH Dimitris Kurkulas.
Read More »“Medvedev to address Serbian parliament”
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will be addressing the Serbian parliament during his visit to Belgrade. Medvedev will be highlighting some of the key messages of his visit to Belgrade in his address to MPs. Đukić-Dejanović, who is the president of the Serbo-Russian Friendship Group, said that Russian Ambassador to …
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