Eurasia

Romania appeals to the European Union (EU) member states to support bridging the gaps between the old and new members of the EU, namely to attain the goals proposed by the European Commission in the Europe 2020 Strategy, Romanian President Traian Basescu said.

After years of opposing the project, Romania is now ready to join the Russian-backed South Stream gas transit pipeline, officials in Bucharest said. “We have been able to start a dialogue, including with Russia. South Stream will pass through Romania,” the country’s Economy Minister Adriean Videanu said Thursday.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is scheduled to leave Monday for an official trip to Serbia, his office has informed. Borisov is set to meet with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković and President Boris Tadic and is expected to

Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodic said that Bosnia and Herzegovina shouldn’t recognize Kosovo’s independence. He made the remarks, following his meeting with representatives of Kosovo Serbs.

Council of Europe will shutdown its information centers in Skopje and Ljubljana as well as in Podgorica.  Secretary General of Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland made the proposal, while the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to close the info-centers in the three towns. „The Council of …

„Istoria se repetă pe ea însăşi, mai întâi ca o tragedie, apoi ca o farsă” (Karl Marx) Luni, 26 aprilie, deputaţii din primul Parlament urmează să se întrunească într-o şedinţă specială pentru a semna din nou textul Declaraţiei de Independenţă. Prilej de bilanţ, de numeroase şi necesare reflexii. Multe s-au …

The EU in the end of 2009 took the decision of liberalizing the regime concerning visas by the citizens from several Western Balkan countries. It is also, widely discussed in Brussels, that after Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Fyrom, Bosnia will also have a visa-free regime by mid-2010, followed perhaps by …

Serbian and Croatian defense ministry officials Dušan Spasojević and Pjer Simunović, harmonized a defense agreement in Zagreb on Thursday. The deal should be signed by the two countries’ ministers of defense, reports said.

Greece on Friday requested the activation of a European Union/International Monetary Fund aid package. Athens is currently negotiating details of a 40-45 billion euro aid package with officials from the European Union and Monetary Fund aimed at pulling the country out of a debt crisis which has skaken the euro.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry protested a meeting on post-conflict settlement between PACE Monitoring Committee Co-Rapporteur David Wilshire and Special Representative of South Ossetian de facto President Boris Chochiyev in Moscow.