The EU will almost certainly not extend a start date for Macedonia’s accession talks at tomorrow’s European Council summit in Brussels, thus effectively putting the country’s EU bid on hold until it solves the name row with Greece.

On 14 June, the European Union reiterated its readiness to facilitate people-to-people contacts with the citizens of the South Caucasus countries, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, through visa facilitation and at the later stage visa-free agreements.

Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic has announced that the time has come for Croatia and Serbia to discuss the possibility for citizens of the two countries to cross their common border with a national identity card. Speaking at a meeting with representatives of the Croatian Parliament on Monday, Dacic said …