Balkans

BiH Bosnia’s top western envoy has urged Croatia, Slovenia and Turkey to provide further support to Bosnia’s bid for full NATO and EU membership. On Monday, Bosnia’s High Representative Valentin Inzko met Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, oin the …

BiH Vlada Federacije BiH, odnosno njena resorna ministarstva, u protekloj godini nisu naplatili više od 165 miliona KM koncesionih naknada, potvrđeno je u Komisiji za koncesije FBiH. Predsjednik Komisije Šefik Koričić tvrdi da se situacija u ovoj godini nije promijenila u odnosu na prošlu. Kaže da ne zna zašto nadležna …

BiH Hrvatska stranka prava (HSP) Đapić-dr Jurišić mogla bi, umjesto HDZ BiH i HDZ 1990, postati novi partner SDA u formiranju vlasti u Federaciji BiH. Ova najava uslijedila je nakon što su u četvrtak ministri iz dva HDZ-a napustili sjednicu Vlade FBiH nezadovoljni promjenom trase koridora 5c na području Hercegovine. …

BiH Vijeće ministara BiH u prvih šest mjeseci ove godine usvojilo je manje od deset odsto planiranih zakona dok je državni parlament uspio realizirati tek 23 odsto svog plana. Podaci su ovo o radu Vijeća ministara i parlamenta BiH koje su juče predstavili Centri civilnih inicijativa (CCI), nevladina organizacija koja …

BULGARIA Bulgaria’s Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov has rejected as untrue media reports that talks were to be held with Arab investors interested in the country’s Belene nuclear power station project. On August 30 2009, quoting a report by a Kuwaiti news agency that interviewed Traikov, Bulgarian newspaper Standart …

SERBIA The EU is currently not disposed to further enlargement, says Erhard Busek, the special coordinator for the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. “It’s very thankless to predict the speed of Serbia’s European integration, or that of the other countries in the region,” the Austrian politician told daily Večernje …

BiH Parties from the Bosnian Federation have condemned Serbian President Boris Tadić’s meeting with Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović. Amir Zurkić from the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) said that Tadić’s meeting with the leaders of the Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) and the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina …

BiH International High Representative to Bosnia Valentin Inzko has asked Slovenia to mediate in the EU for liberalization of the visa regime for Sarajevo. “Slovenia is the only country in the EU that has experience in Bosnia-Herzegovina, they lived together in the same country,” said Inzko, adding that, in that …

MACEDONIA, GREECE Greece has toughened its stance in the dispute over Macedonia’s name, making it more likely to block Macedonia’s EU entry bid, Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki said. Milososki made the remarks in an interview for Reuters on the sidelines of a regional security conference in Slovenia. Greece had …

BiH It’s hard to expect quick progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) towards EU, while the country’s progress towards NATO is more certain, senior official said. The Chairman of BiH collective presidency, Zeljko Komsuc, made the remarks, adding that Sarajevo must improve the cooperation with neighboring countries. BiH’s main problem …