The Romanian Parliament on Wednesday adopted legislative amendments that will empower the acting government to draft and ratify laws, crucial to adopting a budget for 2010. Romania’s current political crisis, following the resignation of former Prime Minister Emic Boc last month, has left the country without a government that has …

The “name” row between neighboring Macedonia and Greece could be settled using the recent Croatia-Slovenia model, through international arbitration, Macedonia’s foreign minister Antonio Milososki said Wednesday.   Milososki made this remark after meeting Spanish members of the European Parliament, Francisco Jose Millan Mon and Jose Ignacio Salafranca, the Macedonian MIA …

Greece will support any possible agreement that aims to resolve the longstanding dispute on Cyprus, the Greek prime minister has said. Prime Minister George Papandreou, who is also in charge of the Greek Foreign Ministry, called on his European counterparts to work together on the Cyprus dispute in a statement …