Eurasia

Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that the agreement reaches in Brussels about the customs stamps is an opportunity for lifting the embargo on Serbian goods set by Kosovo’s authorities. According to the minister, Belgrade will not accept Kosovo’s customs officers and neither would it accept for the revenues …

Montenegrin PM Igor Lukšić and opposition parties will hold today a new round of talks on the language taught in schools and the name of that subject. PZP will table the proposition that the school subject be called native language and literature.

Germany’s federal Ministry of Interior has no intention whatsoever to reverse its negative opinion on the readiness of Bulgaria and Romania to enter the Schengen free movement area. “At present, Sofia and Bucharest are still not ready to join the Schengen Agreement,” stated

EU president Herman Van Rompuy ruled out today any question of Greece leaving the euro zone and indicated he was willing to serve a second term to help Europe overcome the debt crisis. 

Stefan Fuele is due in Macedonia on Monday, conducting a closer inspection of recent reforms enacted with a view to meeting EU demands. Fuele’s visit comes one month before the expected publication of a European Commission report on the country.

Leaders of the six biggest political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina will meet in Mostar on Monday to discuss the formation of a new state government, eleven months after the country’s last election. Ahead of the meeting, members of two political parties in the Republika Srpska met in the mountain …

The IMF agreed standby loan of about 1 billion euro aimed at underwriting Serbia’s economic stability and attracting much-needed foreign investment. After a previous IMF deal expired earlier this year, Serbian officials sought a new precautionary arrangement with the IMF, worried

The Republic of Srpska (RS) will not give up on its request to have four ministries in the Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers. This was announced by RS president Milorad Dodik, who also specified that one of

Serbian President Boris Tadić opened the ninth UNESCO summit South-East European heads of state on Friday morning. The summit dubbed “Contemporary Art and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe” is held at the Viminacium archeological site, eastern Serbia.

The new European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Philippe Lefort, will be in Armenia on 7 September as part of his first visit to the region. During his stay in Yerevan, Ambassador Lefort is expected to meet the President of the …