EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will inform EU foreign ministers about preparations for the Belgrade-Priština dialogue. She will also inform the ministers about the effort made by the union in order for that dialogue to take place. The announced dialogue is expected start in early 2011. Officials in Brussels …

Early results of the Kosovo elections show the party of Hashim Thaci has the lead, while Serb parties that participated accuse each other. The Priština-based Gani Bobi Institute said late on Sunday that Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo had picked up 31 percent of the vote, followed by Isa Mustafa’s …

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou pledged to build a long-delayed mosque in Athens for Muslim residents, noting that failure to provide such a facility for over two decades was a “disgrace”.