Eurasia

Presidents of Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro will gather in Kosovo next month, local media said. The aim of the mini-summit, due to take place in the town of Prizren, is to promote regional cooperation.

Serbian Deputy PM Božidar Đelić stated in Zagreb on Friday that Serbia supports Croatia’s accession in the European union in 2012. It is seen as a signal of further enlargement of the union and an incentive to the region countries to persist on their path to the EU, he explained.

Johannes Swoboda, vice-president of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with south-east Europe said one of the solutions for Serbs in Kosovo would be autonomy as was the case with Serbs in BiH with the help of the Dayton treaty.

Federatia Rusa are in vedere deschiderea de noi baze militare, nu numai in Crimeea, dar si in Nikolaev, Odesa si chiar la granita cu Romania, scrie azi.md. Aceasta intentie ar putea fi realizata cu succes dupa modernizarea Flotei maritime militare rusesti din Crimeea, a declarat publicatiei ruse Nezavisimaia Gazeta, fostul …

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković will meet with his Croatian counterpart Jadranka Kosor in Zagreb. With recent improvements in relations between Serbia and Croatia, started by several meetings between President’s Boris Tadić and Ivo Josipović, the two prime ministers will meet on Friday in hopes of continuing the trend. Along …

Turkish Prime Minister Redzep Erdogan will kick off his 2-day visit to Greece, aimed at improving Greek-Turkish ties. He will be accompanied by another 10 Turkish ministers and over 100 Turkish businessmen. A visit to Greece by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week marks “the start of a …

The process of Western Balkans EU integration depends mainly on the domestic politicians and not on Brussels, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said. Asked about the progress made by Western Balkan countries, Fule said that EU needs one’ country’s green light in order to start accession talks with Macedonia.

Romania is no case in the situation of Greece, and has all the instruments necessary to avoid such situation, President Traian Basescu told a press conference Thursday. “Contrary to what some say on TV that Romania is in the same situation as Greece, we still have 2011 and 2012 … …

Bulgarian Foreign Minister was in the Albanian capital of Tirana on May 14 2010 at the close of his Western Balkans tour that has taken him to Skopje, Belgrade, Podgorica, Pristina, Sarajevo and Banja Luka underlining his message that Bulgaria wants to do its utmost to assist the region’s European …

Bulgaria will help the Republic of Srpska overcome the obstacles Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing in its quest to join the EU, Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov stated. “We are glad that with our visit here, we can see other viewpoints. But what is more positive is that the Euro-Atlantic integration …