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Croatia eyes EU membership by 2011

Croatia would continue bringing its legislation into line with the European Union in order to enter the pan-Europe bloc by 2011, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said in the Croatian capital Zagreb on Friday. Speaking after meeting his Hungarian counterpart Kinga Goencz, Jandrokovic said that Slovenia should not block Croatia’s …

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Austrian diplomat appointed as Bosnia peace envoy

SARAJEVO – Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko was named as Bosnia’s new peace envoy on Friday, with the task of managing tensions between Muslims, Croats and Serbs and speeding up the country’s integration into Europe. The Peace Implementation Council (PIC), the international body that overseas Bosnia’s peace process, said Inzko would …

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Russia welcomes Kazakh proposal for electronic single currency

MOSCOW – The Kazakh president’s idea for a unified currency for payments between states in the Eurasian Economic Community will be examined and could go forward, Russia’s foreign minister said on Saturday. President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s suggestion would not mean replacing national currencies with an equivalent of the euro, but would …

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