Serbia

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele urged the Serbian government to boost efforts to fulfil EC conditions for candidate status this year. A positive report by The Hague war crimes tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz and concrete progress in bilateral talks with Pristina are key conditions to be met, Fuele said …

Head of the Belgrade negotiating team Borislav Stefanović is visiting Priština today where he will meet with Kosovo officials. This is the first time since Kosovo Albanians unilaterally declared independence that a Serbian official is visiting Priština. 

The European Commission (EC) has worked out a proposal for lifting the visa-free regime for Macedonia and Serbia. The idea has been launched by Belgium. Europe is discussing changes of the Schengen rules because of the inflow of immigrants from North Africa and the non-observation of the visa-free regime of …

European Commission (EC) Director for the Western Balkans Pierre Mirel visited Mitrovica on Tuesday (May 10th), stressing the importance of Kosovo-Serbia discussions, which he says will help resolve concrete issues. He also said that both the EU integration process and the visa liberalisation process should be perceived as more than …

Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will end his two-day visit to Belgrade today with meetings with President Boris Tadić and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić. After he meets with Tadić and Dačić, Brammertz could share his impressions about Serbia’s efforts to find Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić. On the first day …

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić said in Istanbul on Tuesday that the allegations about human organ trafficking in Kosovo must be checked in an independent investigation. A probe into whether ethnic Albanian KLA

Serbian Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Goran Bogdanović conferred on Tuesday in Belgrade with the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Knut Vollebaek. They discussed “issues important for normal coexistence in Kosovo”, the ministry said in a release.

Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz has arrived in Belgrade, starting his two-day visit to Serbia. He will discuss Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague court before presenting his report to the UN Security Council.

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić will visit Turkey on Tuesday, where he will take part in two multilateral meetings in Istanbul, the Foreign Ministry stated on Monday. On Tuesday, Jeremić will attend the Fourth United Nations Conference on the

Serbia’s head of council for cooperation with the court, Rasim Ljajić, says he expects “a realistic” report from Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz, that will not block Serbia’s EU path. Brammertz is due to submit his regular report to the UN Security Council in June. Ljajić says his optimism was …