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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia The European Commission (EC) has declined to comment on the agreement among Slovenian political leaders concerning EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn’s proposal for resolving the border dispute with Croatia.

Slovene politicians have finally agreed on amendments necessary for Slovenia to accept the proposal of European Union expansion commissioner Olli Rehn, but not many believe that Pahor`s terms will be acceptable for the European Commission and Croatia, Slovene press assessed on Wednesday. Furthermore, Olli Rehn`s spokesperson Krisztina Nagy reiterated that …

ZAGREB, Croatia Employees of elementary and secondary schools, as well as the staffs of research institutions, went on strike Wednesday (May 12th) despite encouraging negotiations between their trade unions and the cabinet, which dragged on through the night.

Slovenia said it will reject an EU proposal to use international arbitration to settle the ongoing border dispute with Croatia which threatens to stall Zagreb’s accession to the bloc, unless Brussels accepts Slovene amendments “Unless amendments which are of major importance to Slovenia are included, Slovenia will not accept the …

Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor and President Danilo Tuerk on Monday advocated the “balancing” of EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn’s proposal about solving the border dispute with Croatia. They announced changes to the text of the agreement the Croatian parliament had already adopted last week. – If an agreement on …

A powerful Croatian politician, who was sentenced by a Croatian court in the first instance to 10 years in prison for murdering Serbs during the 1992-95 wars, is hiding in Bosnia and Herzegovina, media in the region reported on Monday. After four years of complicated investigations and trials, a Zagreb …

The right-of-centre Macedonian Government is waging an “undeclared war against the Albanian option”, the head of the ethnic Albanian opposition said. Menduh Thaci, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, made the remarks at a session of DPA’s branch in the town of Debar, local Makfax news …

Although Croatia has adopted the proposal of European Union expansion commissioner Olli Rehn on resolving the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, an agreement cannot be reached without Slovenia, which has still not submitted its official response to the European Commission. Slovene Foreign Affairs Minster Samuel Zbogar said that Rehn …

ZAGREB, Croatia Parliament member Branimir Glavas received a ten-year prison sentence on Friday (May 8th) for war crimes committed against Serb civilians during Croatia’s war of independence in the early 1990s.

If we want the current initiative of the European Commission on resolving the border issue between Slovenia and Croatia to work, “Slovenia would have to receive a much better proposal that Olli Rehn`s latest proposal”, former Slovene prime minister and the president of the most powerful oppositional party, the Slovene …