The Ukraine parliament has ousted Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with a vote of no confidence. Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s recently elected president, now needs to form a working coalition to run the country.

British Ambassador in Belgrade Stephen Wordsworth said that Serbia could join the EU in seven or eight years. This would come “if it focuses all of its efforts on European integration and removes all the obstacles in its path,” he said.

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić said during his visit to Budapest today that to tie Serbia’s EU perspective to the problem of Kosovo would be “a tragic mistake”. “Anyone who thinks that Serbia, in case it had to choose between the European Union and Kosovo