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The EU has earmarked 9 million euros for projects aimed at implementing a national plan for supporting refugees and internally displaced persons, IDPs, in Serbia. Josep Lloveras, head of the European Commission delegation to Serbian, yesterday told media that helping IDPs and refugees was a vital initiative, especially during the …

SARAJEVO – Predstavnički dom parlamenta BiH jučer nije prihvatio hitno smanjenje plaća svim uposlenim u državnim institucijama, čime je Vijeće ministara BiH planiralo uštedjeti oko 40 miliona KM. proceduri, odnosno na jednoj od narednih sjednica, a ne po hitnoj proceduri kako je tražilo Vijeće ministara BiH. “Poslije propasti pregovora s …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Local leaders criticised on Tuesday (June 23rd) Serbian President Boris Tadic’s visit to Banja Luka, arguing that he voiced support only for Bosnian Serb leaders.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Federation of BiH (FBiH) Finance Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda admitted on Tuesday (June 23rd) that BiH risks losing a 1.2 billion-euro loan from the IMF because the entity failed to cut its social and welfare budget by 10%.

Serbia, citing a 1960 bilateral agreement, has filed a formal request to Bulgaria for the extradition of Agim Ceku, the former Kosovo prime minister arrested at the Macedonian – Bulgarian border because of an Interpol warrant issued at the request of Belgrade that wants him on war crimes charges. In …

As a row between Slovenia and Croatia heats up, the European Union has cancelled the next round of accession negotiations with Croatia planned for Friday, giving no new date talks. EU officials said no progress had been made towards brokering a deal between Croatia and its EU-member neighbor Slovenia. Despite …

Bosnia’s state court on Tuesday refused to extradite a powerful Croatian parliamentary deputy who fled to Bosnia to avoid going to jail for war crimes. Branimir Glavas was the first senior Croatian official to be convicted of war crimes against Serbs during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the …

Serbia plans to ship thousands of kilograms of spent nuclear fuel to Russia as it seeks to avert security threats and decommission a research reactor, a government official said on Tuesday. The Vinca Nuclear Institute, 17 km (11 miles) southeast of Belgrade, will ship 2.5 tonnes of spent fuel rods …

BRUSSELS, Belgium Sweden, which takes over the rotating EU presidency on July 1st, does not plan to intervene in the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said in Brussels on Monday (June 22nd).

GENEVA, Switzerland The latest UN-mediated round of talks between Macedonia and Greece on their name dispute ended Monday (June 22nd) in Geneva without progress, media reported.