Eurasia

Romania’s President Traian Basescu on Thursday accused the Netherlands of abuse over its blocking of Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to the visa-free Schengen area. “I have noticed the Dutch abuse against Romania and Bulgaria,” the president said during a conference marking the fifth anniversary of Romania’s entry in the European …

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation will arrive in Belgrade on Thursday. The talks between the representatives of the IMF mission and the Serbian

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić’s bid for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) chairman has not yet been debated by officials in Sarajevo. This is according to Bosnia-Herzegovina Assistant Foreign Minister Ana Trišić-Babić.

Chairman of the Board of the Kazakh National Defense Company ‘Kazakhstan Engineering’ Bolat Smagulov and Ukrainian officials discussed the issues on inter-country cooperation in defense and machine building spheres. The negotiations were hold within the official visit of Kazakhstan Engineering’s delegation to Kiev on Jan.30- Feb. 2. and were centered on …

Issues of USA and Georgia’s transition to a new level of relations in the sphere of security and defense were discussed during Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s meetings at the U.S. Congress. According to the

Freedom and democracy must fought for and protected, said Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev at the Memorial for the Victims of Communism in Sofia. Wednesday Bulgaria is marking for the second time the official Day of Gratitude and Homage to the Victims of the Communist Regime.

Kosovo’s ruling party backs calls by Fatmir Limaj’s lawyers for EULEX prosecutor Maurizio Salustro to be stripped of immunity and made to testify. The ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, said the European Union Rule of Law Mission, EULEX, should

Bosnian forensic experts last year exhumed the remains of 413 people who went missing during the country’s 1990s war, bringing the total number of victims found to some 22,000.

On January 31 Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan received the EU Special Representative for eh South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Philippe Lefort. Issues related to the settlement of the Karabakh conflict and cooperation with the European Union in the field of defense were discussed. The parties attached …

The EU policies in favor of the Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo) began to develop in 2000, when the European Union established for the first time exceptional unlimited duty-free access to the EU market for nearly all products originating in the Western …