Eurasia

Kosovo Serbs shot and wounded two soldiers from the NATO-led KFOR force stationed in northern Kosovo during clashes on Monday. The violence erupted after KFOR seized control of a roadblock in Zupce on the Mitrovica-Brnjak road, the latest incident between the peacekeepers and Serbs. “The demonstrators used small firearms, wounding …

KFOR soldiers this morning used an armored vehicle “to move a barricade” set up in the village of Jagnjenica, near the town of Zubin Porok, said reports. After this action by the members of the NATO forces in Kosovo, sirens were heard alerting the population of this Serb region in …

The Parliamentary Committee on Kosovo-Metohija is expected to meet today and discuss the results of the latest round of the Belgrade-Priština dialogue. 

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received today EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Philippe Lefort. The interlocutors discussed issues related to Armenia’s cooperation with the European Union and the settlement of regional conflicts.

Armenian Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandyan has met visiting Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Theodore Bakonski on a recent visit to Armenia. Nalbandyan said that the traditional friendship between the two countries created a favourable ground for the further

Turkey offered to bow to EU demands and open its ports, airports and airspace to Greek Cyprus under what it called a “Taiwanese-style” diplomatic arrangement to help drive Cyprus reunification talks resuming on Monday under UN pressure for a breakthrough.

Support for EU membership has hit an all-time low in Serbia as the public recoils from Brussels’ demands to resolve differences with Kosovo. In a referendum on joining the EU, 44.5 per cent would support membership while one-third would be against it, latest research from the government shows. This is …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Greek counterpart, Lucas Papademos, agreed this week on the importance of pursuing cooperation between Turkey and Greece. Speaking on

Serbian President Boris Tadić stated on Friday he could not say that Serbia would get the EU candidate status on December 9 but that it would fight for it. He noted that he was optimistic, but also aware of the dangers and risks of the entire process.

The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 5 will deliver its judgement in Macedonia’s case against Greece for breaching the 1995 Bilateral Interim Accord by blocking country’s accession to NATO at a summit in Bucharest in 2008.