Eurasia Press & News
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said Friday he doubted EI foreign ministers would agree to start Macedonian membership talks next week because of a long-running name dispute.
Read More »Radovan Karadzic rejects court appointed lawyer
Radovan Karadzic’s legal adviser says the former Bosnian Serb leader has rejected his court-appointed lawyer and is unlikely to be ready to resume his genocide trial as scheduled on March 1.
Read More »Albania’s Socialists urge Berisha to open ballot boxes or step down
Albania’s opposition Socialist Party is set to launch fresh protests Friday to demand either recount the vote in a controversial June election or hold another. Socialist Party leader Edi Rama accused Prime Minister Sali Berisha of the Democratic Party of rigging the parliamentary elections. The Socialists lost to PM Sali …
Read More »Bulgaria PM: We Are Ready to Participate in South Steam, Nabucco
Bulgaria is prepared to participate in both the South Stream and Nabucco gas line projects, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, declared Friday. Borisov spoke upon conclusion of his meeting with the Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy, Richard Morningstar, who is on an offical …
Read More »Montenegro Joins NATO’s MAP; Bosnia Must Wait
NATO has accepted Montenegro in its Membership Action Plan, MAP, an essential stepping stone towards full membership in the Alliance. However, Bosnia and Herzegovina failed to join the Plan because the country has not made enough progress in necessary reforms, foreign ministers said. However they promised that Bosnia and Herzegovina …
Read More »PACE post-monitoring visit to Bulgaria
As part of the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, Serhiy Holovaty (Ukraine, ALDE), Chair of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will travel to Sofia on 7-8 December on a fact-finding visit, PACE announced.
Read More »Croatia cancels visas for Montenegrin citizens
Croatian Foreign Ministry has started a procedure to add Montenegro on the list of countries whose citizens do not need visas to travel via and stay in Croatia for up to 90 days. Up to now Montenegrin citizens could travel to Croatia without visas, but the regime was temporary and …
Read More »Russia-NATO draft accords ready for approval
Ambassadors of Russia and NATO states have approved all three documents drafted for Friday’s meeting of the Russia-NATO Council at the level of foreign ministers, Russia’s envoy to the alliance said. “The ministers only have to give the nod for the documents to acquire legal force,” Dmitry Rogozin after Thursday’s …
Read More »Brammertz: Serbia Made Constant Progress
Chief UN War Crimes Prosecutor Serge Brammertz said on Thursday that Serbia has made “constant progress” in efforts to finalise cooperation with The Hague-based Tribunal, but the arrest of war crimes fugitives Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic remains the key issue. Presenting his progress report on Serbia’s cooperation with the …
Read More »Croatia Proposes Macedonia Name Row Arbitrage
The Skopje-Athens name row could be solved via international arbitrage, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic told journalists after meeting his Macedonian counterpart Georgi Ivanov on Thursday in Skopje. Croatia is nearing the end of its EU accession talks. Zagreb’s talks were stalled for almost a year when neighboring Slovenia blocked Croatia’s …
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