Eurasia

Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the European Integration Teuta Arifi will visit Bulgaria tomorrow (11 April). Arifi will meet with Bulgarian FM Nikolay Mladenov and Minister of European Funds Management Tomislav Donchev. After the meetings, a press conference will be held on 13:30 local time.

The Bulgarian and Moldovan governments decided to sign an agreement about cooperation in case of disasters. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has been assigned to carry on with the negotiations. The deal will be signed when the Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat will pay a visit to Sofia on 19 …

A second ordinary plenary session of Euronest took place in in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 2-4 April. The forum’s purpose is to promote political and economic integration between the EU and Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. 

Lucas Papademos, the Greek PM, is expected to announce on Wednesday the snap election date for May 6. Papademos will meet later today with the country’s president, Karolos Papoulias, and ask for elections to take place 18 months ahead of regularly scheduled elections.

The US Embassy in Sofia (Bulgaria) will adopt a new program with the objective to ease the visa renewal process. According to the new program, all bulgarian citiziens

Dimitar Arnaudov has handed over his letters of credence as an ambassador of Bulgaria to Albania to President Bamir Topi. Arnaudov discussed with the Albanian President about bilateral relations and the European prospects of the Western Balkan countries, including Albania. The two underlined that bilateral cooperation should enhance in fields …

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos will meet with President Karolos Papoulias on Wednesday afternoon. Papademos is leading the Greek interim government since November 2011. 

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and National Council of Switzerland President Hansjorg Walter met on Tuesday. The two expressed the willing of the two sides to continue

International envoy Kofi Annan arrived in Turkey on Tuesday to visit refugees along Turkey’s border with Syria. He is expected to visit camps along the border where shootings from the Syrian side wounded six on Turkish soil Monday.

Milorad Dodik, the president of the Serb Republic (RS), said on Monday that the recent commemoration of the war in Sarajevo was another attempt to assign guilt only to Serbs. He said he does not oppose the remembrance of victims of the war, Muslim and Serb, but he thinks that …