Four Romanian policemen have arrived at the District Police in Bulgaria’s Dobrich in order to start patrolling the northernmost part of the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts together with their local colleagues. The joint Bulgarian-Romanian patrols of Bulgaria’s Black Sea resorts for the 2011 summer season start as of July 1. …

Croatia will close the four remaining policy chapters and formally complete its EU accession negotiations at a ministerial accession conference on Thursday afternoon, just a few hours prior to the end of Hungary’s EU presidency term. The European Council last week adopted a political decision to complete negotiations with Croatia. …

NATO’s secretary general met top Montenegrin officials in Budva on Wednesday, marking the first anniversary of Montenegro’s Membership Action Plan, MAP, for the alliance. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, met Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic and Prime Minister Igor Luksic to discuss progress made in the