Eurasia

Basescu: “In 5 months, since Moldova has a new government, we are sure that we can have a partnership with Moldova, in order to get it close to EU, because Moldovan’s are European citizens by birth”.

Romanian President Traian Basescu landed in Republic of Moldova’s capital Chisinau on Wednesday morning, January 27, 2010. The Romanian delegation was received with military honours, and the traditional bread and salt. Moldavian temporary president Mihai Ghimpu greeted Basescu at his plane stairs. Before leaving Bucharest, the chief of state declared …

Regional Policy Commissioner Paweł Samecki urged Croatian authorities to speed up the preparations for usage of the pre-accession EU funds, which will enable Croatia to withdraw 2.2 billion euros. He said that Croatia will be able to withdraw about 2.2 billion euros, during the first two years of its EU …

European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to approve amendments to Macedonia report, demanding that EU sets a date for accession talks with Macedonia in March this year. A total of 56 MEPs hailed the amendments, with five MEPs opposing them.

The situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia will be the main topic of the meeting of Georgian Parliamentary Speaker David Bakradze and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to be held in Brussels today.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic is to attend the celebrations in honor of Saint Sava in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro. Jeremic arrives at the invitation of bishop Joanikije of Budim and Niksic. The Montenegrin foreign ministry is officially informed about the Serbian foreign minister’s visit.

The Bulgarian Business Association took a decision to block the Ilinden and Kulata boarded checkpoints on February 1 in response to the protests of Greek agricultural producers along the Bulgarian – Greek boarder, the Chairman of the association Svetlozar Nikolov announced.

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, Serge Brammertz, says that the most wanted fugitives in the region, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, are hiding on Serbian soil. “On the basis of information received from Serbia we have no reason to believe that they …

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas confirmed that he will meet his Macedonia counterpart Antonio Milososki later on Wednesday at the sidelines of the international conference on Afghanistan being held in London. This meeting was announced in the latest press release by the Greek Foreign Ministry issued late Tuesday.

Negative political trends in Bosnia must be taken very seriously and require the urgent attention of the European Union, the international community’s High Representative to Bosnia Valentin Inzko said. “In the last four years Bosnia has been in a political stalemate…not a single new reform has been adopted that would …