Eurasia

Germany does not plan to make a compromise about Serbia’s European integration. Berlin thinks Serbia has to meet all necessary criteria to obtain an EU candidate country status, despite some countries’ call that Belgrade should be awarded. The German diplomacy expects a resumption of the dialog with Pristina and application …

Turkey offers the EU more than just security, says the president on the eve of his UK visit and the EU minister adds: ‘Today’s Turkey is much better than yesterday’s.’ Turkish President Abdullah Gül said Turkey could offer the EU more than security assistance with its growing energy resources, population

The EU-sponsored Kosovo dialogue will continue on Monday in Brussels after a break of some two months, when incidents on the administrative line stopped it. The topics of the talks between Belgrade and Priština today will be university diplomas, representation of Kosovo Albanian authorities in organization, as well as the …

Macedonia is not likely to get a starting date for EU accession negotiations as Greece blocks the move over the unsolved name dispute. According to the Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki his country will try to secure a deferred starting date at the upcoming EU Council summit, an idea that …

Turkey has completed construction of a tunnel to Georgian border within Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project. At present, the operations are underway to complete the project on the Turkish territory.

Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre Adam Kobieracki will arrive from Georgia to Azerbaijan on Nov.22, the OSCE Office announced. The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial

Bulgaria and Turkey will sign a political agreement to build a cross-border gas pipeline, thus declaring the strategic importance of this project to both states, Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry said on November 19 2011. The move was agreed at a meeting of Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Traicho Traikov

Three ex-Soviet states were Friday to agree the first steps towards creating a Eurasian economic union, a project backed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to bind closer the former USSR.

An official Armenian delegation led by PM Tigran Sargsyan will head to Batumi, Georgia, on Friday, for a two-day working visit. In Batumi, the delegation will attend 9th Session of the Armenian-Georgian Inter-Governmental Joint Committee. Along the lines of the visit, Tigran Sargsyan will also meet with Georgia’s PM, Nika …

The EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule on Thursday welcomed the apparent end of a two-year political stalemate in Albania, after parliament approved two laws that required cross-party consensus.