Eurasia

The Republic of Moldova’s Acting President and Parliament Speaker Marian Lupu, who is on a visit to Brussels this week, was received by President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek on Tuesday. The interlocutors discussed situation in Moldova, progress of the negotiations on the EU-Moldova Association Agreement

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Božidar Đelić conferred with ambassadors of EU countries on Tuesday in Belgrade. He informed them about the progress Serbia has made on its EU path since February 2011. During the regular quarterly meeting, Đelić informed the EU ambassadors about the organization of the …

On April 13 Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan received the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Armenia, Tengiz Sharmanashvili. Seyran Ohanyan congratulated the Ambassador on assuming his new diplomatic mission and voiced hope that his appointment would

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy held meeting with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Athens, Greece, April 12, 2011. During his one-day visit to Greece, Rompuy expressed confidence the country will overcome a severe debt crisis.

Croatia and Slovenia managed to increase trade by ten percent last year, officials said at a joint meeting on Tuesday. The increase in trade indicates a new development in the countries’ economic relations, participants at a round table in the northern Croatian town of Tuheljske Toplice agreed.

The OSCE hopes that Albania will hold free and fair local elections on May 8th, the mission’s head Eugen Wollfarth said on Monday (April 11th) in an interview with Top Channel TV. The OSCE’s Office for Democratic

UN war crimes tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz said on Monday (April 11th) that BiH’s co-operation with the court is good. After meeting with BiH Presidency Chairman Nebojsa Radmanovic and BiH presidency member Bakir Izetbegovic in Sarajevo, Brammertz stressed that the arrest of the two remaining war crimes fugitives, Ratko …

EULEX insists on concrete evidence before it starts investigating Council of Europe Rapporteur Dick Marty’s allegations against former Kosovo Liberation Army members. “We have opened a preliminary investigation. Of

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Serbia on April 19th, it was announced on Monday (April 11th) by diplomatic sources in Moscow. Belgrade will be the first leg of a Balkan tour that will include Montenegro, Slovenia and Macedonia.

The Macedonian parliament has selected Boris Kondarko for State Electoral Commission chairperson. Kondarko was nominated by the opposition Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), whose MPs did not attend the session, because they were boycotting the institutions’ work. The move fulfills all requirements for dissolving the parliament and organizing early …