Eurasia

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen reiterated that Holland is adamant in its stance of not allowing Serbia to continue its European integration.

European parliament member Doris Pack said that Serbia will not enter the European Union “until it solves its problems with Kosovo”. According to Deutsche Welle, she said at a round table discussion in Berlin that Serbia’s “biggest problem is the fact that Kosovo is its closest neighbor which it does …

Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Ilarion of Volokolamsk is in Gračanica, reports said. The Russian Orthodox Church dignitary said that he had come to pay tribute to one of the oldest cradles of the Orthodox Christianity, where big historic events took place.

Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Roćen stated that his country “does not have any open border issues with its neighbors”. Roćen was answering MP questions in parliament in Podgorica on Tuesday when he said that he had learned from the media about the ethnic Albanian protests near the town of Peć, …

Republic of Moldova Party of Communists (PCRM) diffused a statement in which it accuses the liberal-democratic governance of politicization of force structures of the country.

The leader of the Democratic Party (PDM) Marian Lupu, who is the Alliance for European Integration’s candidate for the presidency, had a meeting with the leader of the Communists Party (PCRM) Vladimir Voronin on Wednesday. The Communist MP Mark Tkachuk said that Lupu and Voronin could not come to terms …

European Parliament’s Rapporteur for Macedonia and Slovenian MEP, Zoran Taler, is due to pay a visit to Macedonia on Thursday. According to the agenda, Taler will meet with the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European Affairs, Vasko Naumovski. Shortly after the European Commission published the report on Macedonia’s progress, …

A delegation of Azerbaijan’s Sumgayit city will visit Georgia. Upon the invitation of the Mayor of the Rustavi city, Mamuka Chikovani, the delegation will visit the Rustavi city on Oct. 30-Nov. 2, the Sumgayit City Administration told Trend News on Oct 29. During the visit, the delegation will meet with …

Kutaisi will host the conference of the Association of Local Authorities of the South Caucasus on Oct. 29-30. According to the Bureau of the Council of Europe (CE) in Georgia, the two-day conference has been initiated by the Association of Local Democracy Agencies and the CE Congress of the Regional …

13 polling stations for Romanian presidential elections to be opened in Moldova. Moldovans with Romanian citizenship and permanent residentship will be able to vote at the elections. Four polling stations will be opened in Chişinău. The organization of the elections in Moldova will cost Romania about USD 1.3 mln