The summit of Balkan presidents and prime ministers, to be held in Ohrid, Macedonia, over the next weekend, will be a central political topic in the region. The summit will bring together Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, and his Croatian, Montenegrin, and

Democratic Party (DS) honorary president Boris Tadić and Swedish FM Carl Bildt have agreed that Serbia deserves to get a date for the EU accession talks.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Turkey and the US have an alternative option, a Plan B, if the upcoming Geneva meeting fails to provide a viable political solution to the two-year-old Syrian conflict. Speaking to a group of Turkish reporters on Friday, Davutoğlu