Eurasia

The EU-Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee kicks off a two-day meeting in Brussels on Monday (November 29th). According to draft conclusions quoted by Macedonia’s MIA news agency, the committee will back the European Commission’s recommendation to open accession talks with Skopje. The panel is also expected to urge Macedonia and Greece …

An appeals chamber of the Court of BiH will discuss a motion Monday (November 29th) filed by Branimir Glavas against his war crimes sentence. The former Croatian lawmaker was sentenced in July in Croatia to eight years in prison for war crimes against Serbian civilians during the 1991-1995 conflict. Glavas, …

With 95.4% of the votes counted, the PCRM is in the lead with 40.5% of the vote and might hold 44 seats of MP. It is followed by the PLDM with 28.7% of the poll and, respectively, 31 seats. The PDM comes third with 12.9% of the vote and 15 …

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić says that Serbia had developed a strategy for its dialogue with Priština, which, he said, is still not ready to start the dialogue with Belgrade. As far as Belgrade is concerned, Jeremić said that a strategy for the talks on all issues had been developed in …

Kosovo’s Outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Vlora Citaku has said that Pristina’s platform for the upcoming talks with Serbia will be based on Kosovo’s Constitution and Martti

European Parliament (EP) rapporteur for Croatia Hannes Swoboda believes that Zagreb’s accession talks could be wrapped up in the first half of next year. In a draft report quoted by local media Friday (November 26th), he notes that accession negotiations could be completed by then if the country maintains its …

The EU might grant Montenegro candidate status next month, an official with the European Commission delegation to Podgorica said on Saturday (November 27th). Clive Rumbold was speaking at the annual session of the Central European Initiative Parliamentary Assembly in Budva. He recalled that each country will be assessed on its …

A meeting of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) foreign ministers took place in Thessaloniki on Friday (November 26th). Participants adopted a joint declaration on fighting climate change in the Black Sea region that will be submitted to the UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico next month. Romania takes over …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his visiting Croatian counterpart Jadranka Kosor agreed on Friday (November 26th) in Ankara that there are no open political issues between their countries and vowed to boost economic ties. Erdogan said he expects the Turkish-Croatian trade volume to rise to 1 billion euros …

Moldovans were on track to elect a new parliament Sunday afternoon, as voter turnout already exceeded the two-thirds required for a valid vote, dpa reported. The poll is the third parliamentary election in less than two years. The two previous legislatures were unable to muster the supermajority necessary to elect …