Eurasia

EU foreign ministers urged today the political leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina to “take greater responsibility” for further development of the country. They reiterated that an agreement is needed in order to guarantee the future of BiH in the European Union and NATO. The foreign ministers of the 27 member-states …

The EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia spread the special statement over the yesterday’s detention of 16 Georgians on the administrative border of South Ossetia. “EUMM expresses concern about the recent incident in which 16 Georgian citizens from the village of Gremiskhevi were arrested by Russian Border Guards whilst cutting …

Talks on a durable peace are groundless until the EU observers allowed to fully control the situation on both sides of the line of division, Finish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb told the Georgian journalists in Luxembourg.

Romania will not negotiate the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) because it has kept the taken engagements as of October 1, said Prime Minister (PM) Emil Boc. Referring to the normative documents, which had to be voted Boc accused the MPs of not making efforts in this direction.

In an interview broadcast yesterday by Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the accusations that by signing agreements with Syria, Iraq and Russia he is actually seeking an alternative to the EU. 

Radovan Karadzic’s successor as Bosnian Serb president left Swedish prison on Tuesday and arrived in Belgrade after winning early release from her sentence for committing war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague convicted Biljana Plavsic in February 2003 but last month granted an early …

On the first day of the presentation of introductory arguments, which took place in the absence of the indictee, the Hague Prosecution said it would show that Radovan Karadzic had full control over the Republika Srpska Army and was the architect of the shelling and sniper campaign in Sarajevo. Speaking …

Romania’s parliament will hold a confidence vote on the country’s shadow government on November 4. Prime minister designate Lucian Croitoru unveiled his proposed cabinet line-up last Friday. It features only 14 posts, compared to 19 posts in the outgoing government.

According to PSE, “these actions cause a considerable instability in the Moldovan society”. The European Left Party (PSE) is concerned with the first actions of the liberal-democratic governance from Moldova, “that is a step backward in the development of Moldova democratic institutions”.

Official negotiations between Serbia and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) began today in Belgrade. The talks concern the EUR 2.9bn loan and the country’s budget for 2010. These are the first meetings concerning the second and third revision of the loan arrangement, and see participation from IMF delegation members and …