Eurasia

Anti-government protesters demanded the resignation of Romania’s President Trian Basescu on Monday during the fifth day of demonstrations across the country sparked by a controversial healthcare bill.

The NATO’s Military Committee (MC) will meet in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Kosovo and Afghanistan. The meeting will debate on Kosovo and it will be addressed by KFOR Commander Erhard Drews and EULEX Chief Xavier Bout de Marnhac. The MC will also meet in NATO-Russia Council …

On Tuesday morning in Georgia paid an official visit the delegation of Foreign Relations Committee of the Turkish Parliament. During the visit the delegation will meet today with the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the

Azerbaijan and Georgia should expand cooperation in mutual recognition of place names. It was mentioned at a meeting between the Azerbaijani State Standardization, Metrology and Patents Committee Chairman Ramiz Hasanov and Georgian National Intellectual Property Center Chairman (“Sakpatenti”) Irakli Gvaladze and Deputy Chairman Ekaterine Egutia.

Romanian Justice Minister Cătălin Predoiu said his country had made unprecedented efforts to reform its law enforcement system, suggesting that Bucharest wanted to see the EU monitoring mechanism put in place five years ago removed by the summer. Predoiu met with several EU officials and

Thousands of angry Greek workers marched to parliament on Tuesday to protest against austerity, waving banners reading “EU, IMF out!” as Athens’ lenders arrived for talks in a race against the clock to avert a bankruptcy.

As Vjekoslav Bevanda started official consultations with his proposed ministers, he expressed confidence about the future priorities of the new state government. After receiving the necessary approvals last week, Bosnia’s new Prime Minister, Vjekoslav Bevanda, on January 16 officially opened consultations with future ministers.

Serbia’s foreign minister Vuk Jeremic says that if Belgrade is asked to renounce UN Resolution 1244 on Kosovo, it is unlikely the country will become an EU candidate in March. “As the president has said, the condition posed in December 2011 was a condition Serbia could not accept – renouncing …

Montenegro’s foreign minister says that establishment of the rule of law will be the priority as Podgorica forms its negotiating team for accession talks with the EU. “The priority is to establish a negotiating structure and a working group that will stick to the rule of law,” said Foreign Minister …

The ruling Alliance for European Integration will hold a referendum by the end of April about amendment of the constitution. Then a president of Moldova will have to be elected within a month.