Eurasia News

European Parliament rapporteur for Croatia Hannes Swoboda is optimistic the country will be able to wrap up its EU accession talks by next spring, local media reported on Sunday

UNMIK believes that talks between Belgrade and Priština should be direct and without mediators, stated UNMIK Spokesman Russell Geekie. He told Radio Television Kosovo (RTK) that it is still early

The opposition Moldovan Communist Party (MCP) expressed satisfaction over the September 5 constitutional referendum failure. MCP leader and Moldova’s former president [2001-2009] Vladimir Voronin stated to journalists last midnight, “The ruling Alliance for European Integration has received the result it deserves. Their power-usurpation actions and unwillingness to dissolve the Parliament …

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić stated that Serbia does not plan to withdraw its resolution on Kosovo it has submitted to the United Nations General Assembly. He said that Serbia is not negotiating its withdrawal but its text.

A delegation of 131 former world leaders arrived in Georgia today. Half of the delegation will stay in Batumi for several days, while the other half travels to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The visit is part of a

Polonian foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski is visiting Romania for meetings with Romanian foreign minister Teodor Baconschi for talks on bilateral issues and European Union issues. “Talks will centre on regional

Romanian president Traian Basescu said today the country should reconsider its loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund in October. During a meeting with IMF mission

The constitutional referendum held Sunday on directly electing the Moldovan president was declared invalid after turnout fell short of the 33 percent minimum required, official results showed. “The provisional turnout figure of 29.67 percent is representative of the results and is considered quasi-final,” the head of the Central Election Commission …

Moldova’s Acting President Mihai Ghimpu said on Sunday he was convinced Moldovans would go to the polls and end the country’s political deadlock. Moldova held the first-ever referendum Sunday to decide whether the country would transfer the power of electing a president from parliament consent to popular votes.

The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic could take more than four years, judges at the UN war crimes tribunal warned on Friday (September 3rd). The trial opened in October 2009 and was