Excessive loud diplomacy, expressions that harm good relations, all this is harmful for Croatia’s cooperation with Slovenia. Relations between Croatia and Slovenia are not good and a lot more needs to be done to mend them. Slovenian President Danilo Tuerk said in an interview published by Slovenia’s news agency STA. …

The peaceful conduct of both the presidential and parallel local elections contrasted with the violence of last year`s parliamentary poll. Politics professor Gjorge Ivanov took a clear lead over his rivals on Monday in the first round of Macedonia’s election hailed by the European Union for its lack of violence. …

The second election round, in which the candidate with most votes becomes the president, is scheduled for April 4. Slovakia’s President Ivan Gasparovic won the first round of a presidential election, results showed on Sunday, and he faces the strongest opposition candidate in a runoff vote in two weeks. Saturday’s …