Kosovo must pay a $231 million debt to the World Bank for loans obtained during the Yugoslav period, announced James Steinbery, US deputy secretary of state, on Tuesday. The debt, which was initially calculated to be $381 million, will be lowered by $150 million, which will be paid by the …

Former Prime Minister Agim Ceku returned to Kosovo on Tuesday after being stopped by Bulgarian authorities due to a warrant for his arrest issued by Serbia. A Court in Kyustendil in Bulgaria has dismissed the charges in the arrest warrant against the leader of Kosovo’s Social Democratic Party, PSD, the …

Just weeks before the European Commission is due to publish an assessment on Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to the EU, the French Senate cautioned against “stigmatising” the EU’s most recent members and suggested fine-tuning the Union’s Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, set up to assist the two countries after their entry. …