International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation, which is on a working visit to Bucharest on October 28 – November 9, is to meet Thursday with Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc. It is not expected for the IMF mission to sing any agreement on the memorandum during the meeting, Minister of Transport …

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic will again boycott his genocide trial when it resumes at a UN tribunal in The Hague next week, one of his legal advisers said Wednesday. “He will not attend Monday,” Marco Sladojevic said after a meeting with the 64-year-old Karadzic. Karadzic, who is defending …

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana opposes the holding of referendum on any putative agreement to end the Skopje-Athens name row. “I don’t think [in] parliamentary democracies the referendum is the best solution,” Solana said. “Look at our experience,” he added, referring to the complications the Irish referenda caused for …