The United States is committed to a comprehensive settlement and believes “strongly” that the ongoing peace talks need to be a Cypriot-led process, a senior US official said yesterday. Tina Kaidanow, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, was speaking

The protest in the central Macedonian town of Prilep gathered some 15,000 people. Several minor political parties joined the event under the so-called Front For European Macedonia. Speakers at the rally accused the conservative government led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO DPMNE party

UNMIK will chair the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) on behalf of Kosovo next year, taking over the presidency from Serbia. This was announced by the Serbian Ministry of Economy and Regional Development in a statement in Belgrade