Eurasia

EU countries have agreed to proceed with Albania’s application for membership of the European Union, a first step in a long process towards possible membership of the bloc, EU diplomats said. Ambassadors from the 27 EU states decided at a meeting in Brussels to ask the European Commission to prepare …

Državljanima BiH u proteklih 14 godina postalo je oko 16.000 osoba. Među njima je i oko 1.500 plaćenika i dobrovoljaca koji su u BiH došli kako bi ratovali za jednu od sukobljenih strana. Pasoš BiH dobijali su osuđeni kriminalci, osumnjičeni za terorizam, plaćeni vojnici – jednom riječju psi rata. U …

Gentiana Serbu was assigned general consult, head of the General Consulate of Romania to Cahul, a recently inaugurated consulate through the decree of the Romanian president. Dumitru-Nicanor Teculescu was assigned general consul, head of the General Consulate of Romania to Balti.

Blocking Turkey’s progress toward European Union entry at a key December summit would not be in the interests of Greek Cyprus, according to the Greek Cypriot foreign minister. “As the situation stands today, we deem it would not be in our interest to halt Turkey’s accession process,” Greek Cypriot Foreign …

The Bulgarian government Wednesday formally put forward Foreign Minister Rumiana Jeleva to be the country’s new EU Commissioner. 

A former Bosnian Serb army general has lost his appeal against a conviction for war crimes committed during the 43-month siege of Sarajevo. 

The Central European Initiative (CEI) summit will take place in Bucharest today and tomorrow. The gathering will bring together prime ministers and foreign ministers of the 18 member states, as well as senior representatives of international financial institutions.

The OSCE has criticized the provisional institutions in Priština saying that they are not meeting their obligations toward the returnees in Kosovo. In its report, the OSCE said that the Albanian majority in the province had taken very few concrete steps since the adoption of the strategy for reintegration of …

The ambassadors of EU member states have agreed to proceed with Albania’s application for EU membership, local media reported on Thursday. The same sources said ambassadors from the 27 EU states decided at a meeting in Brussels to ask the European Commission to prepare an assessment of Albania’s readiness to …

Climate change, energy security and a new general cooperation agreement between the two blocs are among the topics that the Swedish Presidency should discuss with Russia at the upcoming Stockholm summit on 18 November. MEPs are concerned about the human rights situation in Russia (the EP recently awarded its Sakharov …