European Union foreign ministers have agreed to grant official EU candidate status to Montenegro, the fourth former Yugoslav republic to take this step towards European integration. “We have given the green light for Montenegro for candidate status,” Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere was cited by the AP as saying on …

Moldova’s Central Elections Commission is beginning to recount the ballots that were cast in a snap parliamentary election on November 28th. The Commission is complying with the decision that the republic’s Constitutional Court has made on application by the opposition Communist Party, which

Serbian and Russian Foreign Ministers Vuk Jeremić and Sergey Lavrov discussed bilateral and international cooperation in Moscow today. The two ministries are preparing a declaration on strategic partnership between Russia and Serbia.