Eurasia

Novi američko-evropski prijedlog ustavnih promjena u BiH bitno se ne razlikuje od butmirskog paketa, izjavio je jučer Sulejman Tihić, predsjednik SDA, nakon sastanka sa Stjuartom Džonsom i Larsom Valundom, pomoćnikom zamjenika američkog državnog sekratara, odnosno političkim direktorom u Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova Švedske.

The Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat declared that the key to the Transnistrian conflict is in Chisinau. The „Solution is in Chisinau and it depends directly on the living conditions, rights and freedoms citizens from the right bank of the Nistru River will have”, Filat said.

More than 1.2 million Moldovans will enjoy a simplified border crossing regime with Romania within an area of up to 50 km of the frontier under the Convention on Small-Scale Border Traffic signed by Vlad Filat and his Romanian counterpart Emil Boc in Bucharest last week.

Plans to open more negotiation chapters in the EU accession negotiations are being thwarted for political reasons and Turkish leaders are fuming. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, speaking to the Daily News in Spain, says it’s not understandable. ‘We are criticized by the Europeans for not being fast enough, but …

An Igman Initiative gathering has asked governments of Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia and Serbia help Bosnia-Herzegovina get on the white Schengen list. “Excluding Bosnia-Herzegovina from the white Schengen system leads to shutting out of a country, which will only deepen the already existing internal crisis,” pointed out the coalition of non-governmental …

European Commission Vice President Jacques Barrot said that the EU Council of Ministers will propose approval of visa liberalization for citizens of Serbia, at its meeting November 30. “The country made a great effort to meet the criteria, so without a doubt the EU Council of Ministers will propose visa …

Conflicts addressed by the OSCE should be resolved in the previously agreed upon format, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in response to a question during a news conference in Moscow today.

Foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) on Monday agreed to proceed with Albania’s bid to become a member of the 27-nation bloc, but it’s only the initial step for the country to be formally admitted as a member of the EU. The next step is for the European Commission, …

Bulgaria supports and will keep on doing this for Macedonia’s bid to join the European Union and NATO, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said here Monday after meeting with his visiting Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski. At a joint press conference, the Bulgarian prime minister also pointed out that the support …

The European Union and Russia hope to lay the foundations of a new economic and political partnership at a summit on Wednesday despite differences over energy, trade, human rights and climate change. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the EU’s Swedish presidency will seek to rebuild trust shattered during Russia’s war …