Eurasia

The European Parliament is scheduled to give Wednesday the ‘green light’ on annulment of Schengen visas for Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro as of December 19, Slovenian MEP Tanja Fajon, who prepared the visa liberalization report for Western Balkan countries, said.

The Serbian parliament committee for Kosovo and Metohija on Tuesday called for all citizens in Kosovo not to vote in the local elections there, scheduled for November 15.

Montenegro’s Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marovic said that Serbia should be his country’s closest ally in the region. Marovic also said that he expects Serbia propbably has the same feeling towards relations with Montenegro. “The real interest of Montenegro is to have the best relations with Serbia and that Serbia …

Slovenia’s ruling coalition parties have joined opposition parties in calling for a referendum on a border deal agreed with Croatia. The four ruling parties as well as Prime Minister Borut Pahor and President Danilo Turk have decided to support the opposition initiative and said on Tuesday they will only ratify …

The release of Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic for old age and ‘good behavior’ is an embarrassment to international justice, especially with the self admission that her genocidal remorse was staged, Anes Alic comments for ISN Security Watch. The early release of convicted war criminal Biljana Plavsic and the …

Nezakonito otpuštenim djelatnicima Obavještajno-sigurnosne agencije BiH (OSA) u zadnje četiri godine isplaćeno je oko 165.000 KM iz dražavnog budžeta na osnovu pravosnažnih sudskih presuda, kaže Dragica Miletić, pravobraniteljica BiH. “Od osnivanja OSA do danas imali smo osam postupaka u kojima je pravnosnažnim sudskim presudama dosuđena isplata ukupno 165.261 KM. Imali …

Greece announced that solving name issue is Macedonia key towards EU integration. Greek PM and Foreign Minister George Papandreou detailed his government’s initiatives during an informal meeting with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Berlin, Ana-Mpa agency reported.

Croatia is NATO member state and is step before entering EU and therefore will support Macedonia’s EU integration, Croatia’s PM Jadranka Kosor said. Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski and Croatian PM Jadranka Kosor had an open discussion on EU integration, sharing information, discussing the economic cooperation as well as the minority …

The Ambassadors of EU member states in Tirana urge a solution and a compromise for stopping the boycott of the opposition in the Parliament. Western officials send this message yesterday at the 20th anniversary of Berlin wall, in addition to the coming opposition meeting November 20.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is likely to discuss the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and French President Nicolas Sarkozy today. The sides will discuss Russian provocations and the kidnapping of four Georgian teenagers, Saakashvili said at a meeting with the Christian-Democrats parliamentary faction.