Eurasia

“Greece has avoided meetings for months, whereas the ones held lack essence,” Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said. “The economic crisis has even given the country a better position among the international community. They

Mayors of Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo have offered KFOR a compromise solution for the current problem regarding the barricades, said reports. Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Krstimir Pantić said the convoys of the NATO troops were offered to be able to “periodically pass through the municipalities in the north, but this …

“Part of the international community or some of its representatives have adopted a new policy for exerting pressure on Macedonia over the name issue by saying that Macedonia is not concentrated enough on the reforms but this approach is wrong and it would not bring the needed effect,” commented Macedonian …

The EU has decided to extend duty-free goods imports from Western Balkan countries until 2015 and the European Parliament approved the decision. This will be retroactively applied from Jan. 1 this year, by passing a regulation.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will visit Georgia in early November, Georgian official Manana Manjgaladze said at a press briefing on Tuesday. She said Sargsyan’s visit will last three days.

A delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe will observe the holding of local elections in Bulgaria on October 23, which coincide with a presidential vote, the CE announced. The delegation of the Council of Europe will meet with government representatives, including members …

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Serbia and Kosovo to patch up their boundary dispute, saying blocked borders were unacceptable. “I am urging them to resolve all the pending issues, it is unacceptable that the borders are blocked,” said Ban in Bern. “It is a many-year conflict, a political …

Macedonia is ready to start the accession talks with the EU, said Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. In his words, the recommendation of the European Commission (EC) for launching the negotiations conforms the progress of the reforms and the positive results achieved over the last year. “We have done everything …

Turkey will freeze its relations with the EU if Cyprus takes up the rotating presidency of the Union in the second half of 2012 as scheduled, stated Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish PM stated that his country does not wish to hold diplomatic relations with the “so-called state” …

Officials of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) proposed to parliament on Monday an urgent adoption of their draft declaration regarding Serbia’s EU bid. The opposition party is suggesting that there should be an end to political talks between Serbia and the EU and NATO, regarding the country’s rapprochement and full …