EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has welcomed the meeting of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova Vlad Filat and the Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov. The meeting took place on 9 September in the German town of Bad Reichenhall and

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and his Greek counterpart Stavros Lambrinidis, held talks with Albanian politicians in Tirana on Monday, in an effort to bring the country’s bid for EU membership back on track. 

British position on the name row between Macedonia and Greece stays firm – we want the issue to be solved as soon as possible, said British Ambassador to Skopje Christopher Yvon. According to him, the solution should be mutually acceptable and should be found within the UN. “There is a …