US troops handed over management of the borderline between Kosovo and Macedonia to the Kosovo Police on Monday (March 29th). KFOR said this proves the commitment and willingness of the police to take on greater responsibility for providing security to Kosovo citizens. The hand-over comes as NATO considers downsizing the …

Bulgaria and Romania’s EU accession in January 2007 was accompanied by a monitoring mechanism aiming to guide those countries’ progress in the field of law enforcement, but Croatia should join the Union without such a tool, Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Commissioner Stefan Fule said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel s Monday aid that in order to achieve progress in its EU accession talks Turkey should open its ports to ships and planes from Cyprus and help press Iran to stop its controversial nuclear program.