Eurasia

Romanian President Traian Basescu has today ended his visit to Azerbaijan. A guard of honor was lined up for the Romanian President at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport decorated with the national flags of the two countries. President Basescu was seen off by Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyyubov and …

Bulgaria would join the Schengen area, but France needs more time to be convinced of its readiness, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said on Monday. “Accession to Schengen requires a number of conditions to be completed — from technical preparedness and general behavior, to tackling crime

The Georgian Parliament is to ratify the Georgian-Bulgarian intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the transport sector on Tuesday.

Bulgarian Socialist MEP Kristian Vigenin’s appointment as the new rapporteur to the European Parliament on all matters concerning Macedonia, has made officials in Skopje unhappy, media reports in Macedonia said. “The next rapporteur on Macedonia has to be a MEP who enjoys a great reputation and is well respected,” Macedonian …

Bosnia’s two main Croat parties will officially launch the Croat National Assembly, HNS, on Tuesday in Mostar, a move they say will give a true voice to Croats in Bosnia. The Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, and its sister party the HDZ 1990, along with several minor Croat political organisations, launched …

Croatia plans to launch initiatives to refute the findings of the UN war crimes court that Croatian political and military leaders participated in a joint criminal enterprise during the war in the 1990s. Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Monday that the government was planning to take action to …

France is convinced Romania must join the Schengen Area and French authorities are prepared to help Romania meet all the technical requirements, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said Monday. Gueant met in Bucharest with his Romanian counterpart, Traian Igas. They discussed Romania’s Schengen Area accession and police cooperation between the …

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy for Cyprus, Alexander Downer, appeared to talk of a deadline for talks to reunite Cyprus, saying from March 2012 it will be difficult for Greek Cypriots to both prepare for their term at the helm of the European Union and to conduct talks with …

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, is meeting Monday with the French Minister of Interior, Claude Gueant, who will be on an official visit to Sofia. Gueant is also going to be in Bucharest in neighboring Romania.

The EU believes that the political differences in Serbia must be solved through normal political process, a spokeswoman has said. “We followed the development of the situation in Serbia this weekend with growing concern,” Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said in a statement …