The EU might grant Montenegro candidate status next month, an official with the European Commission delegation to Podgorica said on Saturday (November 27th). Clive Rumbold was speaking at the annual session of the Central European Initiative Parliamentary Assembly in Budva. He recalled that each country will be assessed on its …

A meeting of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) foreign ministers took place in Thessaloniki on Friday (November 26th). Participants adopted a joint declaration on fighting climate change in the Black Sea region that will be submitted to the UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico next month. Romania takes over …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his visiting Croatian counterpart Jadranka Kosor agreed on Friday (November 26th) in Ankara that there are no open political issues between their countries and vowed to boost economic ties. Erdogan said he expects the Turkish-Croatian trade volume to rise to 1 billion euros …