Eurasia

Albania’s parties failed to elect a president in the third round of voting by MPs for the presidency. The main opposition Socialists blamed

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic believes that Serbia has done everything asked of it in order to start EU accession talks in the fall. “I expect to finally find out in Brussels what no one in Serbia has heard so far, which is whether

Vuk Jeremic, the outgoing Serbian Foreign Minister, has become the first Serb to preside over the UN General Assembly. Representatives of the UN member states have elected Vuk Jeremic of the Democratic Party in Serbia as president of the UN General Assembly.

Turkey has never had and will never have territorial claims to Bulgaria and other neighbors, Turkish ambassador to Bulgaria Ismail Aramaz said at a meeting with Bulgarian Foreign Minister

Montenegrin President refuses to appoint an ambassador to Pristina until Montenegrins obtain ethnic minority status in Kosovo. “I will neither sign the decree on the appointment

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov says Sofia would object to any solution to the Greece-Macedonia name dispute that resulted in the former becoming known as Northern Macedonia. Borisov said his country objected to the idea of neighbouring

Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to the Schengen Agreement is expected to be a key priority for the upcoming Cypriot EU Presidency, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry announced. He discussed about Schengen his counterparts from Romania and Cyprus. The three

The EU Committee called after a meeting on Tuesday on the European Council to end the three-year stalemate over Macedonia’s EU accession, imposed by Greece. For the third consecutive year, the European Commission last autumn

Romania has approved the Iasi-Ungheni gas pipeline which will allow gas transport between Romania and Moldova. Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta classified this project as strategic for political cooperation between the two sides. “It is about a draft law agreed for longer time at the principle, political

Finland supports Skopje’s EU aspirations. This was officially announced by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto after a meeting with Nikola Gruevski in Helsinki. Prime Minister Gruevski explained that talks with President Niinisto were focused mainly on bilateral relations, Skopje’s EU enlargement and accession and the country’s name issue.