Moldova’s acting president Marian Lupu appointed the leader of a pro-European party, Vladimir Filat, as the country’s PM on 31 December. Marian Lupu signed a decree the next day instructing former Prime Minister Vlad Filat to form a government. Lupu is now expected to hold the posts of Parliament speaker …

Outgoing Kosovo Albanian Interior Minister Bajram Redzepi says that northern Kosovo will not be on the agenda of the Belgrade-Priština talks. He told local newspapers that “the problem of the north cannot be solved in one year and that it requires a long-term approach”. “I will insist that the north …

Serbia expects to receive EU candidate status by the end of 2011, according to the country’s Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic. Serbian PM is also positive that his country will obtain a date for starting accession negotiations by the end of this year. “If we use this year in the properly …