Eurasia Press & News
The UN Security Council will debate on the situation in Kosovo in New York this Friday, at a session to be addressed by the Serbian President Boris Tadić. Tadić is due to speak at the council at 21:00 CET. The session will consider the latest three-monthly report of UN Secretary …
Read More »Quarrel at EP over Macedonia
The last sitting of the European Parliament (EP) delegation in Strasbourg on Wednesday, held to work out the details around the meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee EU-Macedonia scheduled for February 18-19 in Skopje, ended up with a severe discussion, which looked like a quarrel between German and Greek MEPs. …
Read More »Bosnian parliament meets last condition before visa liberalization
Bosnian MPs passed the amendments and supplements to the Criminal Code, which was the last condition before the lifting of the visa regime in the European Union. Thus, the Bosnian parliament met all conditions on the road map for liberalization of the visa regime for Bosnian citizens before the arrival …
Read More »Serbia May Be EU Candidate by Year’s End
Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic has said his country could become an EU candidate by the end of this year. Djelic said that this could happen if the country gets it candidacy questionnaire from the EU by mid spring and fills it out by the summer. The questionnaire aims …
Read More »US Supports Montenegro’s Euro-Atlantic Integratioon
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed her country’s support for Montenegro’s Euro-Atlantic integration. Clinton congratulated Montenegro on receiving its Action Plan for membership to NATO, MAP, in December last year. “I offered, and support US efforts to establish rule of law by seeking membership to NATO and the …
Read More »Lifting blockades at border checkpoints is expected as early as beginning Feb: Lachezar Ivanov
Lifting blockades along border checkpoints could be expected as early as beginning of February. Unfortunately I couldn’t give more optimistic prognosis. This is what interim Bulgarian Consul General to Thessaloniki Lachezar Ivanov declared. “Greek government and especially the Minister of Agriculture and Foods stated their readiness for dialing and solving …
Read More »Austrian FM visits Skopje
Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Michael Spindelegger will present, Friday the initiative for Euro integration of Western Balkans in Skopje, which is aimed at speeding up the Euro integration process of the countries in the region, media reported. Yesterday Spindelegger presented the initiative in Athens. It is expected Michael Spindelegger …
Read More »The President of the European Court of Human Rights may visit Republic of Moldova
Moldovan interim president Mihai Ghimpu invited the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Jean Paul Costa, to Moldova. „I invited you to come to Republic of Moldova in February or in another period of time suitable for you”, Mihai Ghimpu said. Mihai Ghimpu considers that Jean Paul Costa would …
Read More »Romanian President Traian Basescu: „Moldova’s accession to EU is Romania’s soul project”
On Wednesday, during his meeting with ambassadors to Bucharest, Traian Basescu stated that supporting Republic of Moldova in term of accession to European Union is a “dear project” of Romania. He specified that he would make his first visit as a head of state to Chisinau in one week. President …
Read More »Swedish embassy in Sofia to close
Sweden announced on January 21 that it would close six embassies, while at the same time opening 10 new embassies by upgrading section offices in those countries. Among the embassies to be closed was the Swedish embassy to Bulgaria. Besides the embassy in Sofia, other Swedish embassies to be closed …
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