Eurasia

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Wednesday that it was not possible to re-negotiate an international aid plan for Greece. “This is an aid programme that was prepared down to the last detail, we cannot re-negotiate it,” Schaeuble said a day after the Greek political leaders announced that they are …

Greece will hold new elections on June 17, after members of parliament couldn’t agree on a coalition government following the last election earlier this month. A court official will be appointed PM of the interim government, but most likely will not influence internationally agreements.

On May 15, Armenian ambassador to Georgia Hovhannes Manoukian met with Georgian First Deputy Foreign Minister Nikoloz Vashakidze. The two discussed the collapse of the Armenian Surb Nshan Church in Tbilisi and launch of the overhaul of Armenian Drama Theater in Tbilisi, as well as bilateral relations.

The prosecution’s opening arguments mark the start of the trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, the last trial at the Hague Tribunal. Mladic entered the plea of not guilty to all 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the Srebrenica genocide calling the accusations …

Bosnia’s International high representative, Valentin Inzko, presented an optimistic half-year report on the implementation of the peace agreement in Bosnia to the UN Security Council on Tuesday. The report highlighted the long overdue

Resolving the “name” dispute with Greece remains the condition for Macedonia’s NATO accession, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. He said the Alliance’s position remains unchanged, and is still based on the

Ankara plans to promote NATO bid for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Georgia at the Chicago summit. Turkey will convey the

On 10 May, Moldova’s President Nicolae Timofti and his Romanian counterpart Traian Basescu agreed in Bucharest to accelerate the development of energy projects already established, including Iasi-Ungheni (north-east country) gas pipeline.

Bulgaria can play a crucial mediator role in getting Azerbaijan near to a European Union entry, according to Bulgarian Parliamentary Chair Tsetska Tsacheva. Tsacheva is currently on an official visit to Azerbaijan, where she has met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Tsacheva and Aliyev have discussed their countries’ cooperation in …

The regular quarterly report by the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, will be presented to the UN Security Council in New York today. In the latest report, UN Secretary General Ban