Eurasia News

A court in Belgrade convicted two men Monday (November 22nd) of war crimes committed in the Bosnian municipality of Zvornik in 1992. Branko Grujic got six years in prison and co-defendant Branko Popovic was sentenced to 15. The two former local officials were found guilty of illegal detention, inhumane treatment …

Greece will propose 2018 as a target EU entry date for the Western Balkans countries, Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas said on Monday (November 22nd) at a seminar in Brussels. He added that the EU could adopt a political declaration to clearly state its commitment to integrate Southeast Europe. Droutsas …

Croatian President Ivo Josipović says he and his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadić will not discuss the withdrawal of Croatia’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia. Tadić is due to pay an official visit to Croatia on Wednesday. “The government is the one to decide on the possible withdrawal

A two-day forum of EU and Western Balkans justice and home affairs ministers begins in Brussels on Tuesday. The forum will review the progress in the stabilization and association process in the field of home affairs. The meeting will focus on improving

Serbia is interested in joining the construction of Bulgaria’s second nuke plant of Belene as one of the investors in the project. This is said in a letter sent by Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic to Bulgarian counterpart

Greece’s international lenders have agreed the latest instalment of a loan to the debt-stricken country, but say Greece must make “an extra effort” to address its deficit next year.

President of the Serb republic (RS) in Bosnia Milorad Dodik announced on Tuesday that he has named Aleksandar Džombić prime minister designate. The 42-year-old previously served as minister of finance of the

The President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili will pay an official visit to Moldova during November 23 – 24, at the invitation of Acting President Mihai Ghimpu. Mikhail Saakashvili will meet with Moldovan President Mihai

Bosnia is a country “irreversibly divided” along ethnic lines, Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik told a Serbian paper on Monday, 15 years after a peace deal ended the country’s inter-ethnic war in the 1990s. “Bosnia is divided in an irreversible way” and “they (the international community) will

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey is ready to open its ports to Greek Cypriot vessels and aircraft if the European Union takes steps to end the economic isolation of Turkish Cyprus. Erdoğan, speaking to reporters on Monday, said Turkey would not change its position on Cyprus …