Eurasia

The Serbian government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will wrap up talks on the first review of the current precautionary arrangement on Thursday. The meeting will not be followed by a press conference, but

Romania’s Parliament is to vote to approve the country’s new government, which the ruling coalition hopes will

After the release in Brussels of a European Commission report containing mixed messages for Bucharest on justice and corruption, Romania insists it will do whatever is required. Romanian officials pledged to continue the fight against corruption and

UN Security Council will discuss UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s report on the situation in Kosovo on Wednesday. EULEX should submit its report on results of the investigation into human organ trafficking in Kosovo.

EU mediator in the Belgrade-Priština dialogue Robert Cooper and head of the Belgrade negotiating team Borislav Stefanović conferred in Vienna on Wednesday. They discussed the possibilities of continuation of the Kosovo talks, which

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Philippe Lefort discussed the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict during a meeting in Moscow. The sides also exchanged views on other issues of the South Caucasus, including the situation at …

Bulgaria has taken some measures to improve its justice system and the prosecution of organised crime but more convincing results are needed, according to an interim monitoring report by the European Commission. The February report — released by Brussels on Wednesday — focuses on the

Croatian President proposes arbitration to solve Croatia’s oustanding border disputes with Serbia and Bosnia. Croatian President Ivo Josipovic says if more

No ethnic community in Kosovo can expect special treatment, Hashim Thaci said, urging Serbs in the north of the country to recognize the Pristina government and its institutions. Thaci told reporters in Pristina that he felt encouraged by the willingness

Historical background It is without a doubt that the attitude of the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, towards the First World War had global consequences, many of them unintended, according to his own words. His infamous Address to the Congress, made in January 1918, stirred up the hopes …