Eurasia

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic says that Serbia will see in the next couple of weeks how successful it was in preventing further states from recognising Kosovo. In an interview with daily Danas, Jeremic said that the Serbian delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York had held meetings …

The presidency of the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts, MASA, decided on Wednesday to withdraw its controversial Macedonian encyclopaedia. The editors of the encyclopaedia were ordered to revise and correct the passages in the book that refer to Macedonian-Albanian relations, Albanians in Macedonia, the former head of the 2001 …

The European Parliament’s rapporteur on visa issues, has proposed that the European Commission, EC, include all five western Balkan states in the EU visa liberalisation programme. Slovenian MEP Tanja Fajon made this recommendation, while arguing that the two states that have yet to meet all necessary benchmarks be included on …

The Macedonian government looks set to survive after the leaders of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party and ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, met to settle their differences. VMRO-DPMNE leader Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and DUI head Ali Ahmeti met on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the turmoil caused by the …

The heads of the European Commission and OSCE in Albania have both enjoined the country’s Socialist opposition party to end its parliamentary boycott. Speaking after a meeting with the minister of foreign affairs, Deputy Premier Ilir Meta, the head of the OSCE office in Tirana, Robert Bosch, said that his …

The presidents of Serbia and Slovenia, Boris Tadic and Danilo Turk, have underlined their countries’ warm relations and the importance of economic and cultural cooperation. Addressing Slovenian reporters after his parlay with Turk, Tadic said he expected Slovenia to continue supporting Serbia’s EU integration process, which is Belgrade’s main political …

Menadžeri u telekom operaterima ili velikim građevinskim kompanijama treba da budu obrazovani, uspješni, sposobni i imaju viziju razvoja. Reference su to koje važe u normalnim zemljama. BiH, kao što svi znamo, nije jedna od normalnih zemalja. Nabrojane reference za uspješne menadžere u BiH su u drugom planu. Politički dogovor o …

FM Vuk Jeremić is to visit Moscow on October 5 as part of the preparations for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Serbia later that month. This is according to a statement released by Jeremić’s office.

The balance of payment deficit in Serbia will be nine percent of the GDP this year, as opposed to 17.4 percent in 2008, daily Večernje Novosti writes. The decrease in exports (23 percent less than last year), but also imports (decreasing by 31 percent), have enabled Serbia to now consider …

Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz is expected to visit Serbia in October, according to the President of Serbia’s Hague Cooperation Council Rasim Ljajić. The actions geared towards arrested the remaining Hague fugitives Goran Hadžić and Ratko Mladić are ingoing daily, Ljajić said, adding that Serbia is