Eurasia

„Politica este arta de a-i face pe oameni să creadă” (Machiavelli) Disputele care există la Chişinău în legătură cu semnificaţia zilei de 7 aprilie trebuie aşezate pe ecranul mai larg al bătăliei pentru simboluri care a marcat istoria RM de la constituirea ei recentă până astăzi. Bătălia pentru simboluri Confruntarea …

Rapporteurs of the Council of Europe Monitoring Committee Matyas Eorsi and David Wilshire will pay a working visit to Georgia April 11. They will meet Special Representative of the Council of Europe’s Secretary General Boris Vodz.

Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Michael Spindelegger will pay a working visit to Chisinau on April 9 on the invitation of his Moldovan colleague – Deputy Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Iurie Leanca. The diplomats will discuss bilateral relations and possibilities of providing assistance by Austria to …

Slovakia will not change its stand on recognition of Kosovo, Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčak has told Kosovo Albanian officials. “We will not recognize it (Kosovo) and this remains our stand,” Lajčak said after a meeting with Skender Hyseni, appointed by the government in Priština as its foreign minister, late …

Bosnia will not get on the white Schengen list in July, experts of the EU and Bosnia working on the visa regime liberalization have agreed. Tanja Fajon, European Parliament rapporteur on visa liberalization in the Western Balkans, confirmed that visa liberalization is

Russia’s Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko says Austria will join the Russian-backed South Stream gas pipeline project in April. Russian news agencies are quoting Shmatko as saying Thursday that this would be the final deal before construction begins later this year.

Romania readies to adhere to Schengen Area, a difficult procedure that will impose some limits regarding foreign citizens’ access in Romania, according to Attila Korodi, president of the committee for foreign affairs from the Chamber of Deputies.

Serbian President Boris Tadić says that he and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg agreed that “information that Bosnia is threatened by war” was untrue. “This isn’t about any sort of war, the situation is being overdramatized, I don’t know to what end. The problems should be identified through a …

Turkey and Greece on Thursday announced a series of measures to build confidence between the two neighbors. The deal was reached in the course of the meeting between Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The five measures include joint educational programs

The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has refused wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s request to issue “a stay of proceedings” in his case.