Eurasia

The cooperation between Macedonia and Albania is highly significant to the stability in the region and to overall development of the Balkans, a senior Macedonian official said on Monday. Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Albanian counterpart Ilir Meta.

Ministarstvo pravde BiH pripremilo je, a Vijeće ministara BiH i parlament BiH usvojili izmjene Zakona o ministarstvima i drugim organima uprave, kojima je Ured za reviziju svrstan među upravne organizacije. Tim su izmjenama na mala vrata dokinuli nezavisnost ovog ureda.

SARAJEVO Jedini put u sigurnu i prosperitetnu budućnost za BiH su evropske i evroatlantske integracije. Poručili su to jučer senatori Džon Mekejn i Džozef Liberman, koji su predvodili delegaciju Kongresa SAD, koja je boravila u jednodnevnoj posjeti BiH. Naglasili su da BiH mora prestati gubiti vrijeme te krenuti putem jedinstva …

The International Monetary Mission Fund (IMF) will send its mission to Belgrade on Monday to assess the country’s bid for a third installment of the stand-by agreement of an IMF.

It looks likely that pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has won Ukraine’s presidential election – but only by a slender margin. Claiming victory, he told supporters: “People wanted change and I think this election was the first step towards the unification of the nation.”

On the second day of his working visit to Britain Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov visits the British intelligence and parliament and confers with his British counterpart Gordon Brown.

Officials from the European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will arrive in Bulgaria 18 February to examine the country’s readiness to join ERM II, the so-called Eurozone waiting room.

There is no alternative to Macedonia’s EU and NATO future, Macedonian President Georgi Ivanov said Sunday after the completion of the Munich Security Conference. While the name row with Greece hampers this perspective, he said his country was doing everything in its power to overcome the obstacle.

The Russian foreign ministry on Friday (February 5th) expressed concern and demanded an explanation after Romania announced plans to deploy elements of a proposed US missile defence shield. The Supreme Defence Council in Bucharest backed the idea Thursday. Romanian President Traian Basescu says the facilities should be operational by 2015 …

The BiH Court on Friday (February 5th) convicted defendants Predrag Bastah and Goran Viskovic of crimes against humanity, sentencing them to 22 and 18 years in prison respectively. According to the indictment, Bastah, who was a police reservist in a public security station in Vlasenica, and Viskovic, who was a …