Bulgaria can expect Azeri gas via the Nabucco West pipeline in end- 2018 or early 2019, according to Christian Dolezal, spokesperson of the Nabucco consortium. “We are very optimistic because we provided everything the Shah Deniz consortium wanted. We have reached a very advanced stage

Slovenia and Croatia have agreed on a means of resolving a banking dispute that had threatened to derail Croatia’s accession to the European Union in July. At stake were deposits lost by Croatians when the break-up of the Yugoslavia precipitated the collapse of the Slovenia-based Ljubljanska Banka.

The deal that ended Macedonia’s political crisis foresees possible early elections – but only if the parties agree on it by autumn, the European Parliament Rapporteur on Macedonia.Richard Howitt told Balkan Insight that early general elections are up to parliament – after government and opposition came out with contradictory readings …