Eurasia

The main opposition party in Greece has elected a former foreign minister and party rebel as its new leader, causing both concern and hope in neighboring Turkey. While giving a tacit support to Turkey’s EU membership bid, Antonis Samaras is also expected to purse hard-line foreign policy. The unexpected result …

The Moldovan Regional Power Station has resumed its energy supply to Romania, which was stopped at the end of October. Vice-Premier, Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar said. He remarked that the suspension in the energy exports was caused by the decrease of energy consumption at the Romanian market in the …

Moldova insists that the foreign troops be pulled out of its territory and that the present format of the peacekeeping force in the Transnistrian region be changed into a civil multinational mission under international mandate.

The European Commission Mission in Serbia has changed its name to EU Delegation in Serbia. As the Lisbon Treaty came into effect on Tuesday, the EC mission in Serbia chief, Vincent Degert, became the chief of the EU delegation in Serbia. The treaty was signed on December 13, 2007 and …

Turkish-Armenian deals can only be ratified after the Nagorny Karabakh issue is resolved. This is according to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who spoke at a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in Athens on Tuesday.

Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski will meet EC President Jose Manuel Barroso on Tuesday on occasion of EU decision for start of accession negotiations with Macedonia. Prime Minister urged his Greek counterpart George Papandreou not to block Macedonia’s road towards EU at EU Council’s session. The same appeal was sent yesterday …

A protest against changing Macedonia’s name, organized by the World Macedonian Congress, will be staged outside the EU Office in Skopje. One of the messages sent from the protest will be that Athens’s demands and pressure of the European bureaucracy

Albanian opposition staged protest rallies in front of the headquarters of OSCE Conference and OSCE foreign ministers. The late Tuesday’s rally brought together hundreds of Albanian toilers who submitted a protest note to OSCE conference, noting that June parliamentary elections were non-democratic.

The Western Balkans integration in EU will bring peace in Europe, while the war, used as a political weapon will disappear completely from the European ground, Croatia’s President Stjepan Mesic said on Tuesday. “The aggressors, who have caused war, were actually defending their minorities. The time, when Europe unites, that …

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on gradually abandoning the compilation of lists of individuals banned from entering their countries, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement commenting on a meeting between Poroshenko and Lavrov on the sidelines of the 17th OSCE Ministerial …