Eurasia

Ahead of the NATO summit in Chicago, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski harshly criticised the Alliance for nurturing what he described as double standards and selective respect of international law when it comes to country’s accession. 

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he hopes the European Commission, EC, will take note of Bulgaria’s progress. “It is very important to show voters that we can hand you the key of the

Foreign ministers of Georgia and Azerbaijan discussed the situation of the Udabno monastery of David Gareja monastery complex on the Georgian-Azerbaijani border. The two sides agreed to meet within the NATO Chicago Summit to address this issue. Besides this, intensive contacts will be maintained between the border services of the …

Serbia will hold second-round of elections for the new head of state on Sunday, May 20. Two candidates will confront each other – Democratic Party (DS)-led coalition candidate Boris Tadic and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)-led coalition candidate Tomislav Nikolic. Tadic, who won 25.31 percent or 989,454 votes in the first round, …

On May 18 a tripartite meeting of the Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Qatar and Turkey will take place in Varna, Bulgaria. Varna will welcome Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Qatar’s Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani who is already on a two-day visit to Bulgaria. After …

Baku will host the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly summer session in 2014, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE PA Bahar Muradova announced. “Today, a letter with the consent of the Azerbaijani parliament will be sent to the OSCE secretary general. Holding session in Baku is very important in terms of …

Yuri Sterk, Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel, has been appointed on 16 May along as chief of the EU delegation in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is the second Bulgarian diplomat to manage an EU delegation. The

Social Democrats will start a series of anti-government protests from June onwards, with the purpose to increase the party morale before the local elections which are to be held in early 2013. The protests, aimed against the government of Prime

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said in New York that Chicago NATO summit is very important for his country and its useful for progress towards joining the Alliance. “Recognition of our progress on the part of NATO is very important for us, and even though

Greek former prime minister Lucas Papademos said on Thursday that rejecting the tough terms of EU-IMF bailout would be “disastrous”. “Any modification…must be pursued in a spirit of consensus and with the full agreement of European peers,” Papademos said in an open letter posted on the prime minister’s website. “A …