Eurasia

Enlarging the European Union to bring in further countries from South Eastern Europe will mean 100 million new EU citizens and will “not be a quick or simple process”, Carl Bildt, foreign minister of Sweden, told the European Parliament on November 25 2009.   Sweden currently holds the presidency of …

The Russian and Moldovan prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Vlad Filat, had a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze will visit France on Thursday, French Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday in a statement.

Socialists and Liberals have teamed up to oust Romania’s centre-right president in next month’s crucial run-off election vote. Social Democrat Mircea Geoana, who came second in the first round of Sunday’s presidential vote, has signed an agreement with the Liberal party, which came third.

The head of Macedonia’s junior governing party, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, Ali Ahmeti has expressed optimism about a possible solution to the on-going name row with Greece.

Bosnia’s top envoy Valentin Inzko met US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, on the second leg of a US tour in which he has highlighted the growing sence of urgency in Bosnia’s worsening political crisis.

Bosni i Hercegovini ne treba ovakav OHR jer trenutno ne zna je li zadužen za mirovni sporazum ili za evropske integracije, kaže predsjednik Socijaldemokratske partije BiH (SDP) Zlatko Lagumdžija. “Nama treba izuzetno snažan evropski ured u BiH koji će nam reći šta jeste, a šta nije evropski standard na našem …

Predstavnički dom parlamenta BiH potvrdio je jučer odluku o imenovanju Sadika Ahmetovića na mjesto ministra sigurnosti i zamjenika predsjedavajućeg Vijeća ministara BiH. Predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH Nikola Špirić Ahmetovića je imenovao protekle sedmice, a jučerašnjom potvrdom njegove odluke, nakon četiri mjeseca, okončana je procedura popune funkcije ministra sigurnosti.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament will render assistance to the Moldovan legislative forum to help make more efficient the work of the Parliament’s apparatus and the forum’s standing committees at decision-making.

The Swedish EU presidency presumes the Republic of Moldova may be admitted to the European Union even before Western Balkan states, Moldova’s Acting President, Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu stated to the press after his meeting with the First Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag parliament] of Sweden, Jan Bjorkman.