Eurasia

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt visited Skopje Thursday on the eve of a meeting of Macedonian and Greece officials aimed at resolving an 18-year-old name dispute, officials said. Bildt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, met Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, the government said …

Albania’s constitutional court accepted on Thursday an appeal by the opposition Socialist Party to review the legality of a territorial agreement with Greece, which delineates the continental shelf between the two countries in the Ionian Sea. 

Za otvaranje puta BiH prema EU su potrebne skromne promjene u Ustavu, izjavio je juče u Banjaluci Robert Kuper, generalni direktor za inostrane i vojnopolitičke poslove pri Generalnom sekretarijatu Savjeta EU. Kuper je nakon sastanka s Miloradom Dodikom, premijerom RS i liderom SNSD-a, kojem je dostavio nove prijedloge u vezi …

The Moldovan Parliament’s Permanent Bureau held its ordinary working meeting today and included the question of a presidential election date into the agenda of the legislative forum’s November 27 plenary sitting.

Serbian Orthodox Church will choose new Patriarch on January 22 next year, church’s Holy Synod said. Serbian Orthodox Church didn’t give any details, but said that the new Patriarch has to be chosen by February 15 the latest.

Serbia’s Interior Ministry and police (MUP) have very good cooperation with the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). This is according to Interior Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dačić, who added in Geneva on Wednesday that Belgrade wants to improve it with the aim of …

EULEX has accused Judge Elez Hodzu from the District Court of Priština of taking bribes and he will be put on trial at the beginning of next year.

Russia will price its gas supplies to Ukraine in line with European levels at an average 280 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters in 2010, the Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Wednesday. “The average price for next year will be about 280 dollars, which is in line with European …

Enlarging the European Union to bring in further countries from South Eastern Europe will mean 100 million new EU citizens and will “not be a quick or simple process”, Carl Bildt, foreign minister of Sweden, told the European Parliament on November 25 2009.   Sweden currently holds the presidency of …

The Russian and Moldovan prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Vlad Filat, had a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.