EU leaders and Serbian ministers hailed the decision to grant Serbia candidate status, though Serbia’s main opposition leader said the achievement would mean little if the country remained under the same government. President Boris Tadic congratulated Serbia on obtaining EU candidate status late on Thursday night.

Bulgaria is withdrawing its ambassador from Belarus a day after Minsk ordered the ambassadors of Poland and the EU to leave the country, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has announced. “After yesterday President Alexander Lukashenko kicked out

A two-day summit of EU leaders will begin in Brussels on Thursday and the final decision on Serbia’s EU candidate status is expected to be made tonight. According to a schedule, the EU leaders should discuss whether to grant Serbia the