Eurasia

Spain, the current holder of the European Union Presidency, believes that progress in the Athens-Skopje talks can be made soon, the Spanish Ambassador to Macedonia Maria Garcia de Lara told media.

Ukoliko se pitanje ukidanja viza bh. građanima s tehničkog prebaci na političko polje, moguća je i odgoda primjene odluke o liberalizaciji viza za postizborni period, kaže Samir Rizvo, šef interresorne radne grupe BiH za liberalizaciju viznog režima. Rizvo, ipak, vjeruje da će Evropska komisija građanima BiH ukinuti vize već u …

Građani Sarajeva, prihvati li Vlada Kantona Sarajevo prijedlog Zavoda za zdravstveno osiguranje, od početka narednog mjeseca mogli bi sami birati lijekove s esencijalne liste. Građanima bi bilo omogućeno da, uz minimalnu doplatu, umjesto lijeka koji im je propisan na receptu, mogu uzeti drugi lijek koji smatraju boljim. Vlasti računaju da …

EP and former Greek Foreign Ministry spokesperson George Kumucakos will arrive on a working visit to Skopje on Thursday, as a member of EU mixed parliamentary committee. The EU mixed parliamentary committee will hold a session on February 18-19 in Skopje. The committee holds this meeting regularly in order to …

Ukraine’s president-elect Viktor Yanukovych said on Sunday he would not let his rival Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko remain on her post. Bu he also pledged to take into account the interests of her supporters. In line with the official results, the presidential election’s second round on February 7 gave Yanukovych …

Romania’s decision to allow elements of the US missile defense in Europe will not affect the US-Russia START nuclear talks or the situation with Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria.

Russia is waiting for Bulgaria to explain its intention to join a new US missile defence system in Europe which came as an unwelcome surprise to Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday.

Crotian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor on Friday (February 12th) said that a successful fight against organised crime requires close and lasting co-operation between police across the region. Opening the fourth meeting of interior ministers from the six former Yugoslav republics in Zagreb, Kosor said that without joint efforts against organised …

The Hague war crimes tribunal (ICTY) on Friday (February 12th) rejected an appeal of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to fire his court-appointed lawyer. According to the court, the appointment did not violate the legal rights of the defendant. The ICTY appointed British lawyer Richard Harvey to represent Karadzic …

Prime Minister George Papandreou on Friday (February 12th) accused the bloc of using Greece as a scapegoat to hide the 27-member group’s own failures. Speaking at a government session only a day after the EU leaders agreed to help Greece deal with its financial woes, Papandreou stressed that because of …