Eurasia

A conference on the fight against organized crime and corruption in the Balkans will be held in Brussels on Thursday. The gathering will be organized by the Serbian Justice Ministry.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Wednesday that the date and topics for the Belgrade-Priština dialogue are up to the sides. “Serbian President Boris Tadić and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci are now ready to start the dialogue,” she said answering questions of MPs in the European Parliament …

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s official visit to Ukraine started today. He took part in the wreath-laying ceremony to the Grave of Unknown Soldier in Park of Glory and ceremony of honoring a memory of Holodomors victims in

The final tally showed that 218 MPs voted for the opposition’s motion, 18 votes shy of the 236 needed for the motion to pass. Parliamentarians from the ruling coalition were not present for the vote.

The court of BiH accepted on Tuesday (October 26th) a plea bargain between prosecutors and Bosnian Serb Dragan Rodic, sentencing him to eight years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Bosniak and Croatian

The first annual Balkans special operation forces conference opened on Tuesday (October 26th) in Sarajevo. Organised by NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command Naples, the conference runs through Thursday and aims to build

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday (October 26th) that Turkey should pay 15m euros in compensation for damages caused by violations of property rights in Cyprus. The money must be paid out within

Slovakia’s Parliament unanimously adopted a government plan Tuesday (October 26th) to withdraw Slovak military personnel serving with KFOR. A total of 140 troops will leave by the end of the year. Slovakia has not recognised Kosovo’s independence and has had a military presence on its territory since 1999. The troops …

The New Kosovo Alliance (NKA) party plans to submit to parliament a no-confidence motion against the government Wednesday (October 27th), in a bid to end the institutional crisis that has gripped the country since

Romania hosted an international conference on Azerbaijan’s role in energy security of Europe. The event was held in Bucharest with the organizational support of the State Committee for Diaspora of Azerbaijan and the Romanian-Azerbaijani Association of Culture and Youth, the Azerbaijani Embassy in Romania reported.