Serbia plans to ship thousands of kilograms of spent nuclear fuel to Russia as it seeks to avert security threats and decommission a research reactor, a government official said on Tuesday. The Vinca Nuclear Institute, 17 km (11 miles) southeast of Belgrade, will ship 2.5 tonnes of spent fuel rods …

Russia on Tuesday defended its proposal for a new security structure in Europe and said it was not aimed at undermining the U.S.-led NATO alliance, but rather at banishing division on the continent. The United States and NATO reacted sharply last year to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s call for a …

BRUSSELS, Belgium Sweden, which takes over the rotating EU presidency on July 1st, does not plan to intervene in the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said in Brussels on Monday (June 22nd).