Eurasia

Turkey’s minister of EU affairs and the chief negotiator Egemen Bagis said Monday that Turkey would carry on with the reforms within the framework of EU focusing more on the process rather than the outcome.

PACE has decided to “step up and expand” its presence in Macedonia and its cooperation with the Macedonian authorities. The PACE’s Skopje-based monitoring mission in Macedonia closed in 2000.

Cooperation between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia is very important for the states at this development stage, former Serbian President said.

EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis said on Sunday during a press conference that Turkey’s membership in the European Union has been delayed due to political reasons. “One would wish to see that we were a member of the bloc

Croatia has become the 28th member of the European Union, with crowds joining celebrations in the capital Zagreb. It comes almost two decades after Croatia’s brutal war of independence.

United Nations soldiers will take over from African troops in conflict-scarred Mali from Monday, making up the organisation’s third-largest peacekeeping force by the end of the year. A 12,600-strong force will take over security duties from French troops who entered Mali in January to halt an Islamist advance

President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy will on Monday confer with Serbian officials in Belgrade. Several other EU officials will visit next week as a result of the Council’s decision to open membership talks with Serbia.

he French government on Friday said it welcomes the entry of Croatia into the European Union, thus becoming the EU’s 28th member. Croatia is due to officially join the EU on July 1 after more than eight years of

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has called the new Greek foreign and defense ministers to congratulate them on their new posts. In a recent Cabinet reshuffle, Evangelos Venizelos, the leader of the Socialist Pasok party, was

China will send peacekeepers to Mali and it is the first time that China’s armed forces dispatch security forces for peacekeeping mission, a Ministry of National Defense official said on Thursday. At the request of the UN, the Chinese government will dispatch nearly 400 servicemen