Mayors of Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo have offered KFOR a compromise solution for the current problem regarding the barricades, said reports. Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Krstimir Pantić said the convoys of the NATO troops were offered to be able to “periodically pass through the municipalities in the north, but this …

“Part of the international community or some of its representatives have adopted a new policy for exerting pressure on Macedonia over the name issue by saying that Macedonia is not concentrated enough on the reforms but this approach is wrong and it would not bring the needed effect,” commented Macedonian …

The EU has decided to extend duty-free goods imports from Western Balkan countries until 2015 and the European Parliament approved the decision. This will be retroactively applied from Jan. 1 this year, by passing a regulation.