Croatia plans to launch initiatives to refute the findings of the UN war crimes court that Croatian political and military leaders participated in a joint criminal enterprise during the war in the 1990s. Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Monday that the government was planning to take action to …

France is convinced Romania must join the Schengen Area and French authorities are prepared to help Romania meet all the technical requirements, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said Monday. Gueant met in Bucharest with his Romanian counterpart, Traian Igas. They discussed Romania’s Schengen Area accession and police cooperation between the …

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy for Cyprus, Alexander Downer, appeared to talk of a deadline for talks to reunite Cyprus, saying from March 2012 it will be difficult for Greek Cypriots to both prepare for their term at the helm of the European Union and to conduct talks with …