In the run up to a crucial referendum on Croatia’s EU membership bid, Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic tells lawmakers that joining the bloc will ensure the country’s stability. Pusic said in parliament on Thursday that stability was the most important argument in favour of Croatia’s EU entry.

Thousands of Romanians marched through their capital on Thursday to demand the resignation of their government for imposing harsh austerity measures in order to receive international loans for the nation’s battered economy.

Romania’s President Traian Basescu on Thursday expressed wishes to maintain good relations with China in 2012. “The foreign policy of Romania will reserve a special place to the relation with China this year,” the President told the annual meeting