Eurasia

NATO Secretary General on South Caucasus, James Appathurai, said that Georgia needs to continue implementing necessary reforms, in particular democratic reforms to advance its Euro-Atlantic aspirations. 2011 is an important year in this regard and Allies will follow carefully the developments in Georgia. They will also continue assisting these reforms …

Bulgaria cannot commit to taking part in direct military action against the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi authorised by the UN, the country’s foreign minister has said. “Bulgaria is going to comply fully with the UN Security Council resolution adopted last night. This morning I started the process of …

Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov will pay an official visit to Croatia on 21 March 2011 at the invitation of his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic. The two presidents will discuss trade and economic exchange and investments. They will

Bulgarian Prime Minister met with Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Rocen, who is on an official visit to Sofia at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Nikolay Mladenov. The two have discussed the good political dialog

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will visit Belgrade on March 29. He will have talks with the country’s top officials. The visit pertains to the ongoing process of reviewing Serbia’s answers to the EC questionnaire. To that end, EC expert missions have been visiting Belgrade since late February.

A Serbian delegation led by PM Mirko Cvetković is today in Banja Luka in the Serb republic (RS) of Bosnia-Herzegovina, for a series of meetings. A joint session of the Serbian and RS governments will also be held on Friday. The session represents continued cooperation in the area of special …

A solution for the Serbian-Albanian conflict cannot be a scenario in which Serbia will recognize Kosovo’s independence, said Serbian President Boris Tadić. He believes that the solution must not be such that one side wins everything while the other loses everything.

The capability to hold democratic elections has to be proven on May 8th, when Albania will hold local elections, Albanian President Bamir Topi told foreign ambassadors in Tirana. He met on Wednesday (March 16th) with

The head of the EU delegation to Serbia, Vincent Degert, said on Wednesday (March 16th) that the European Commission (EC) will present its opinion on the country’s EU membership application by October 12th. Degert attended a meeting of EU ambassadors in Smederevo. EU expert missions are visiting Belgrade to assess …

European Parliament (EP) members backed a draft resolution Wednesday (March 16th) calling for the opening of EU accession talks with Macedonia. The resolution, drafted by EP Rapporteur Zoran Thaler, was adopted in