Serbia

Serbian President Boris Tadić will not attend a summit of central and southeastern European leaders in Warsaw, Poland, because of Kosovo. The decision came “because Kosovo will be treated as an equal state”. Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians unilaterally declared independence in early 2008, but Serbia rejected this as an illegal act …

Athens will continue to support Serbia’s EU integration, Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas told his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic on 19 May during an Economist conference in Lagonissi, Greece. Stressing that Serbia has made great strides in EU integration recently, Droutsas told reporters after

Kosovo authorities requested on Thursday (May 19th) that European Commission representatives be more proactive on the issue of visa liberalisation. Kosovo has met all technical requirements, Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi said at a meeting of the working group on visa liberalisation with the EU.

Serbian President Boris Tadić and EC President Jose Manuel Barroso said that “recognition of Kosovo is not a condition” for the country’s EU integration. “There’s no criteria that says a country on its path to the EU needs to recognize independence of some other country or a part of its …

EC President Jose Manuel Barroso has warned Serbia that is needs to move fast with political, legal, and economic changes in order to catch the EU train. Barroso was in Belgrade Thursday where he stressed explicitly that Serbia needs to cooperate

EU Representative to Macedonia Peter Sorensen said on Wednesday (May 18th) that the European Commission’s assessment of implementing the visa-liberalisation regime in the region will become clear in June. He was commenting on speculation that the visa-free regime could be suspended because of the influx of asylum applicants, mainly from …

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic reiterated on Wednesday (May 18th) that a division of Kosovo could be one possible solution to the status issue, stressing this is his personal view, one he had not discussed with Serbian President Boris Tadic.

The fourth round of talks between Pristina and Belgrade ended in Brussels yesterday with both delegations describing the two-day meeting as productive, regarding the freedom of movement, free trade, telecommunications and energy. No results, however, were presented and no agreement was struck. Kosovo representative Edita Tahiri said that missing persons …

The Danish Special Prosecutor for International Crimes, Brigitte Vestberg, is willing to interview witnesses to the alleged killings of Serb civilians in Croatia in 1995. The Serbian prosecutor’s office

Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz says that Serbia’s efforts to arrest war crimes indictee Ratko Mladic are insufficient. The report Brammertz submitted to the UN Security Council on Belgrade’s cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal, writes that Serbia’s existing strategy for the arrest of the two remaining …