Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has met with Croatian Parliament Speaker Boris Sprem on Friday, announced the press service of the President’s Office. Boris Sprem is visiting Bulgaria on the occasion of
Read More »Macedonia name still an obstacle for EU integration
Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where he met and talked with several MEPs. Poposki’s interlocutors said that the EP
Read More »Serbian negotiator says referendum in North Kosovo will not bring real results
Serbia’s chief negotiator in the dialogue with Pristina, Borislav Stefanovic, called the referendum in four Serbian municipalities in North Kosovo pointless. In Stefanovic’s words, the referendum will not bring any real result, since it is anti-constitutional and will worsen Belgrade’s position in the negotiations. “It [the referendum] will not leave …
Read More »Turkish President and Georgian counterpart to attend international conference in Azerbaijan
Turkish President Abdullah Gul and President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili are expected to attend the International Conference “Building Bridges”, to be held in September in Gabala, President of the Association for Civil Society Development (ACSD) in Azerbaijan, MP Elkhan Suleymanov told the press on Friday. He said the conference will …
Read More »Belgrade and Pristina will resume talks soon
As a vital decision on Serbia’s EU candidate status looms in Brussels, Belgrade and Pristina are hurrying back to the negotiating table. The next round of EU-mediated talks between Belgrade
Read More »Bulgaria ratifies Croatia’s EU accession treaty
Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, voted by an absolute majority on February 17 2012 to ratify Croatia’s European Union accession treaty. The speaker of the Croatian parliament, Boris Sprem, was
Read More »Jose Manuel Barroso praised Greeks for courage on budget cuts
Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has praised the “courage” of the Greek public in tackling the country’s “demanding and challenging” crippling debts. But, speaking in Brussels on Thursday, he also described
Read More »Ratko Mladic trial will start on May 14
The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Bosnian Serb forces, is set to start on May 14, when opening statements will be presented. The Chamber of the ICTY had announced last December
Read More »Greek PM accepts Macedonian counterpart’s invitation for dialogue
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has replied to Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski’s letter of invitation for a meeting. Papademos has accepted the invitation and has proposed the meeting to be held in the frames of the Council of the EU in March. According to the Greek prime minister the dispute …
Read More »Turkish former army chiefs to testify in court for 2003 Sledgehammer coup plot
Several former army chiefs were summoned to a Turkish court on Wednesday for the investigation of a coup plot that has already put dozens of high ranking military officials behind bars. The 10th Istanbul High Criminal Court demanded
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