Eurasia

Kutaisi will host the conference of the Association of Local Authorities of the South Caucasus on Oct. 29-30. According to the Bureau of the Council of Europe (CE) in Georgia, the two-day conference has been initiated by the Association of Local Democracy Agencies and the CE Congress of the Regional …

13 polling stations for Romanian presidential elections to be opened in Moldova. Moldovans with Romanian citizenship and permanent residentship will be able to vote at the elections. Four polling stations will be opened in Chişinău. The organization of the elections in Moldova will cost Romania about USD 1.3 mln

The Bulgarian government has approved a package of measures for energy cooperation with Montenegro. The accord encompasses segments like oil, natural gas, electricity, renewable energy resources and energy efficiency. The paper will be signed during the upcoming visit of Montenegro’s President Filip Vujanović to Bulgaria.

The Croatian authorities claim to be fighting corruption and reforming the judiciary, but they will have to do more before joining the EU, European Voice says.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation, which is on a working visit to Bucharest on October 28 – November 9, is to meet Thursday with Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc. It is not expected for the IMF mission to sing any agreement on the memorandum during the meeting, Minister of Transport …

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic will again boycott his genocide trial when it resumes at a UN tribunal in The Hague next week, one of his legal advisers said Wednesday. “He will not attend Monday,” Marco Sladojevic said after a meeting with the 64-year-old Karadzic. Karadzic, who is defending …

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana opposes the holding of referendum on any putative agreement to end the Skopje-Athens name row. “I don’t think [in] parliamentary democracies the referendum is the best solution,” Solana said. “Look at our experience,” he added, referring to the complications the Irish referenda caused for …

Odgovornost za napredak BiH je na domaćim političkim liderima koji moraju imati mnogo ozbiljniji politički angažman, upozorio je Karl Bilt, ministar vanjskih poslova Švedske i predsjedavajući Vijeća EU, po okončanju dvodnevnog zasjedanja ovog vijeća. “Naša glavna poruka bosanskohercegovačkim liderima je – sjedite, razgovarajte, dogovorite se. Imamo veliku podršku za razgovore …

The first meeting of the commission that is investigating the April protests was marked by misunderstandings. The commission’s head Vitalie Nagacevschi and deputy head Vadim Misin could not agree on a report on the accuracy of the parliamentary elections. At the first meeting held on Tuesday, October 27, the members …

The Court also wrote that in order to ensure a continuity of state power, speaker becomes Acting president from the moment the presidential post becomes vacant. The Republic of Moldova’s Constitutional Court has ruled that Parliament Speaker becomes Acting President immediately upon the outgoing president’s resignation, the Court wrote in …