Eurasia

Turkey is not simply a candidate for European Union membership, but is a candidate for the union’s leadership, EU Minister Egemen Bağış said today during his opening speech at the Town

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday discussed with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev the need for a negotiated settlement of the protracted conflict in Syria.

China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali in what would be its biggest contribution to the UN peacekeeping, diplomats said on Wednesday.

Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have agreed on a harmonized plan to implement the recent Brussels-led agreement, the EU foreign police chief announced. The EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said the prime ministers

The European Parliament will vote on the Resolution on the progress of Macedonia in 2012, proposed by British MEP Richard Howitt. “People in the country and the region should realise that the number of the amendments is really small and that there

Serbia’s First Deputy PM and Defense Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with Russian Defense Minister Segey Shoygu in Moscow on Thursday morning. The main topic of the meeting will be preparation of the agreement

The “Friends of Syria” meeting kicked off here on Wednesday, with the foreign ministers of 11 countries, together with Syrian opposition, coming together as part of preparations for Geneva II Conference on Syria due in June.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Tuesday briefed President Karolos Papoulias on his recent visits to China and Azerbaijan, describing the trips as positive.

President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy will visit on Wednesday the Turkish capital, Ankara. Rompuy will meet with to Turkish

Aleksandar Vučić is convinced Serbia will get the start date for the EU accession talks, and “not only because of the agreement with Priština. It will also happen “because EU institutions had commended the government for achieving progress in almost all areas,” the deputy PM said.