Eurasia

Croatia could end its pre-accession talks with EU before the end of the year, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandroković announced. Jandroković also pointed that he expected the report of Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, to allow Croatia to open 23rd pre-accession chapter for …

SARAJEVO Ministar sigurnosti BiH suspendirao je jučer svog pomoćnika za borbu protiv organiziranog kriminala, terorizma i trgovine narkoticima Vjekoslava Vukovića, jer ga je Županijski sud u Rijeci osudio na devet mjeseci zatvora. Vuković je suspendiran do okončanja sudskog procesa koji se protiv njega vodi u Hrvatskoj zbog nabavke eksploziva za …

The Steering Committee of the Joint Program between the Council of Europe and the European Union, entitled “Democracy Support Program in Moldova”, met for the first time in Chisinau on Thursday. During the meeting, the Joint Programme work plan until June 2011 was discussed and unanimously adopted.

President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Mevlut Cavushoglu arrived in Tbilisi. Chavushoglu stayed at Tbilisi Marriott hotel. President of PACE will begin official meetings on Monday. Meeting with Vice-Premier, State Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili at the State Office is scheduled. After that, Chavushoglu will …

The mediator in the Skopje-Athens “name” dispute, Matthew Nimetz, is in contact with both parties, and he will set a fresh meeting if and when he sees appropriate, the UN press office said on Friday. “Ambassador Nimetz is in very frequent contact with both parties, but he will not be …

Croatia has extradited to Bosnia a Slovenian national wanted for his role in the genocide in Srebrenica. Fran Kos was arrested this April in Croatia on a warrant issued by Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Various groups in Bosnia have reacted to Thursday’s ruling by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague that found two Bosnian Serbs guilty of committing genocide and five others guilty of a variety of war crimes for their role in the killings in Srebrenica.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Thursday (June 10th) that his country is committed to its links with both the East and the West. Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul, meanwhile, denied there

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Friday (June 11th) that a 440 billion-euro EU stabilisation fund should be made permanent in order to strengthen the regional economy. Speaking at a banking conference in Vienna, Papandreou supported the idea of “a new European monetary fund financed by contributions of eurozone …

„Nu tot ce străluceşte este aur” (proverb) Lumea devine din ce în ce mai complicată, iar sistemul se reconfigurează. Dacă cu ceva vreme în urmă războaiele mondiale îndeplineau această „sarcină”, astăzi criza globală devine catalizatorul şi pretextul. Criza financiară, devenită economică, va afecta cu siguranţă şi arhitectura politică şi geopolitică …