The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, has welcomed Serbia’s EU membership application and stressed that cooperation with the UN war crimes court, ICTY, is central to Serbia’s further progress toward the EU. Speaking about Serbia’s EU integration at a press conference in Belgrade on Thursday, Ashton said that …

The International Court of Justice, ICJ, has set a deadline of December 20, 2010, for Croatia to submit its response to Serbia’s genocide countersuit. At the same time, the ICJ set a deadline of November 2011 for Serbia to reply to Croatia’s response.

Kosovo opened its embassy in the Croatian capital Zagreb on Friday, only two days after celebrating the second anniversary of its disputed declaration of independence from Serbia. “Croatia is very important to us, it provides a good model for us in terms of what we need to do to achieve …