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Bulgaria’s Parliament will offer unconditional support to neighboring Serbia in becoming a Member State of the European Union. The declaration was made by the Speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, during a meeting with Slavica Dukic Dejanovic, the current President of the National Assembly of Serbia (Skupshtina).

UNMIK chief Lamberto Zannier says relations between the UN mission and Pristina have improved, though differences remain on some issues, including “the strategy in the north”, Zannier said on Sunday (April 18th). Government spokesperson

Serbian Parliament Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović will arrive in Sofia today on a one-day visit to Bulgaria. There, she is due to met with the country’s top-ranking officials. Đukić-Dejanović is scheduled to meet with Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, as well as with Bulgaria’s Parliament Speaker Tsetska …

Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj has characterized bilateral relations between Sarajevo and Belgrade as oscillating considerably, but generally facing a state of stagnation. Alkalaj said that concrete progress in improving relations between the two countries depended on the state of political cooperation.

A meeting of the EU Committee for the Western Balkans heard that the EU is content with Serbia’s efforts towards regional cooperation. Reports from Brussels this Friday said that it was stated at the meeting that there could be discussion of Serbia’s candidacy for EU membership in June.

U.S. ambassador to Serbia Mary Warlick said that America wants to help Serbia join the World Trade Organization (WTO). “We hope that finishing the process of joining the WTO would be an important component in joining the EU and opening the market. We believe that this is

Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said that Serbia’s entrance into NATO is not being discussed currently, and won’t be any time soon. “No one is setting NATO as a condition for joining the EU, although, all countries who have become member of the European family recently were first members of …

The presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Hungary have started their meeting today in Pecs, Hungary. Boris Tadić, Ivo Josipović and Laszlo Solyom will address journalists afterwards. The three presidents would discuss specific forms of cooperation.

Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland praised the reforms implemented in Serbia during a visit to the country Wednesday (April 14th). He announced that the CoE’s Committee of Ministers has decided to

A realistic date for Serbia to acquire a status of EU candidate-country is June 2011, Deputy Prime Minister for EU Integration Bozidar Djelic said. In an interview with Novosti daily, Djelic said the EU