Eurasia

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has expressed satisfaction with the European Commission’s report which he received on Tuesday from the head of the EU delegation in Macedonia Erwan Fouere. Gruevski says the report assesses the progress in all areas. According to him there are remarks the government will pay much …

Macedonia has received an invitation to participate in Belene nuclear power plant. Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Traycho Traykov told Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Pesevski during the Vienna Economic Forum

Participants in a Danube summit that started in Bucharest on Monday (November 8th) adopted a declaration on the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia reiterated in the document their commitment to implementing the strategy

Croatian police arrested on Monday (November 8th) former Bjelovar wartime official Jure Simic on suspicion of war crimes committed against prisoners of war during the 1991-1995 conflict. Prosecutors say Simic ordered the murder of three members of the former Yugoslav Army, part of a larger group of military officers captured by …

EULEX head Xavier Bout de Marnhac said on Monday (November 8th) that corruption investigations are ongoing and that new developments can be expected soon. “This is a very serious issue … There will

José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, has advised Romania to speed up efforts to reform its judiciary system and combat corruption if it wants to join the EU’s border-free Schengen area. Speaking to the press following a meeting with Romanian President Traian Basescu

Croatia will not participate in the construction project of Belene nuclear power plant, said the country’s Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor. Bulgaria offered Serbia and Croatia

The European Commission will today in Brussels publish its report on Serbia’s EU accession. It is expected that Serbia will be called on to invest more efforts to find and

Turkish President Abdullah Gul has told European leaders that the EU needs his country as a member if it wants to remain a global force. “It is sad to observe that some European leaders do not properly see the future

The European Commission has revealed that it is not ready to start negotiations with Kosovo over visa liberalisation because Pristina does not have a reintegration package for its returnees.