Meeting with his Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos in Cordoba over the weekend, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey is very optimistic about Spain’s upcoming six-month European Union term presidency starting on Jan. 1. Stating that Turkey and Spain have strategic relations, Davutoglu said that during their meeting they discussed …

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn welcomed a signing of a border arbitration agreement between Croatia and Slovenia, calling on both countries to ratify the document as soon as possible.

Besides being neighbors, Macedonia and Bulgaria are brotherly peoples, which should help each other, Bulgarian Prime Minister Bojko Borisov said on Monday after meeting Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski. “That is the reason we support visa liberalization. I will congratulate Macedonian citizens on December 19, when they will be able to …