Bosnia’s central government approved the budget for 2012 on Wednesday as the country seeks talks next month with IMF on a new loan deal. The adoption of the budget was delayed so far because misunderstandings of Serb, Croat and Muslim leaders.

Moldova’s Prime Minister Vlad Filat will pay an official visit to Sofia on Thursday. He is set to meet with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and President Rosen Plevneliev. The visit is just a week after Moldova restored centralized funding for the Bulgarian community in Taraclia, a move that was praised …

NATO should send a message to Western Balkans that the door is still open. This would be a strong motivation for countries to reform, said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov in Brussels, where he met alliance’s foreign and defence ministers. Mladenov gave Bosnia as an example, saying that it achieved …