Eurasia

Labour unions on Monday (May 17th) rejected a government plan that envisions cutting salaries in the public sector by 25%, and pensions by 15%. During a meeting with government officials and business representatives, unions called for a compromise, warning that without one, about 40,000 workers will stage a general strike …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Azerbaijan on Monday and discussed bilateral cooperation with Azerbaijani leaders, Xinhua informed. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who had a meeting with Erdogan in Baku, expressed satisfaction with the current state of cooperation between the two countries.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday signed a series of important accords with Ukraine’s new leadership as he paid his first official visit to Kiev. The accords, including one on using a Russian satellite navigation system in Ukraine, were signed after the third meeting of the Ukrainian-Russian interstate commission in …

The European Union must assume its role in the process of resolution of name dispute between Macedonia and Greece to ensure an accelerated EU integration of the entire region, Slovenian MEP Jelko Kacin said.

The Congress of Georgian Azerbaijanis will hold activities to celebrate May 28 – 92-nd anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and May 26 – Independence Day of Georgia, the Congress said. Before the event, wreaths will be laid to the bust of national leader Heydar Aliyev and the monument to …

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski met his Greek counterpart George Papandreou last evening in Madrid during the EU-LAC summit, the government informed. During the meeting, the two prime ministers discussed name issue and Greece’s financial crisis.

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, Vice President of the European Commission, said the EU remains fully committed to resuming the talks in the 5+2 format without preconditions or delay, by observing the fundamental principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova.

SARAJEVO Policija, sud i zdravstvene ustanove ne znaju gdje će, nakon što se probudi iz kome, biti smješten Nedim Fejzić, osumnjičeni za ubistvo tri i teško ozljeđivanje sedam osoba u blizini Visokog. Ne postoji specijalna pritvorska jedinica za osobe s psihičkim poremećajima koje su osumnjičene za teška krivična djela, kao …

SARAJEVO Međunarodni monetarni fond (MMF) zatražio je u ponedjeljak od vlasti BiH da u narednoj godini rashode zadrže na ovogodišnjem nivou. Čelnici Vijeća ministara i entitetskih vlada na sjednici Fiskalnog vijeća BiH, kojoj su prisustvovali i predstavnici MMF-a, prihvatili su ovaj zahtjev, ali nisu postigli saglasnost o podjeli prihoda s …

Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčak said that the solution for the Kosovo problem needs to be found within the region. He confirmed once again that he had “no ambitions of personally offering a plan for solving the Kosovo problem”. “For me it is important for the European Union to be …