Eurasia News

Grecia accepta ca Fosta Republica Iugoslava a Macedoniei (FYROM) sa se numeasca “Macedonia de Nord”, a declarat primul adjunct al ministrului afacerilor externe grec Dimitris Droutsas, transmite Agerpres. Daca premierul macedonean Nikola Gruevski respinge propunerea, “va trebui sa explice el insusi poporului sau pentru ce il priveaza de perspectiva europeana”, …

Jerzy Buzek, presedintele PE, va efectua o vizita la Bucuresti in perioada 11 – 12 aprilie, in cadrul careia se va intalni cu presedintele Traian Basescu, presedintii celor doua Camere ale Parlamentului, premierul Emil Boc si cu ministrul de Externe, Teodor Baconschi.

US State Department spokesperson Philip Crowley on Friday hailed progress made in the Cypriot reunification talks and promised Washington’s support for a “just and lasting” settlement. Crowley said the US was “encouraged” by a statement of progress following the latest meeting of Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader …

The Greek government is getting back to work after a brief Easter holiday to meet an International Monetary Fund team in Athens on Wednesday.

Romanian Ambassador to Azerbaijan and Head of NATO representation in Azerbaijan Nicolae Ureche will speak at the Center for Strategic Studies under the Azerbaijani President Apr.9, the center said.

The natural gas in Serbia can hike now; however, everything depends on Serbian government and the Energy Agency, the general director of Serbiagaz Dusan Bajatovic said. Bjatovic said that the Company had not filled in a claim on hiking gas price in a compliance with the political agreement.

Tbilisi will host the first session of the NATO-Georgia Inter-Parliamentary Council. Members of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Civil Dimension of Security’s Committee’s Democratic Governance Sub-Committee arrived in Tbilisi.

Romania’s main goal, now that it is a member of the EU and NATO, is to join Schengen by March 2011, Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Saturday. He added that Romanian authorities will exert the maximum effort toward achieving that goal. Speaking at the opening of an immigration service …

Senior EU and US officials will visit BiH this week to encourage local leaders to speed up reforms needed for the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of the country, an unnamed representative of the US embassy in Sarajevo announced Sunday (April 4th). US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Spanish …

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will appear at The Hague war crimes tribunal (ICTY) on April 13th for the resumption of his trial, a member of Karadzic’s defence team, Peter Robinson, said on Saturday (April 3rd). According to Robinson, Karadzic plans to participate fully in the hearings. On Thursday, …