Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is visiting traditional rival Greece for the second time in five months and will hold informal talks with the country’s leadership on ongoing disputes. Erdoğan is attending a Mediterranean conference on climate change and is due to meet later Friday with Greek Prime Minister George …
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Fajon says Kosovo may get visa liberalisation roadmap this year
Kosovo is expected to receive an EU visa liberalisation roadmap this year, European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur on visa liberalisation for the Western Balkans Tanja Fajon said on Wednesday (October 20th) in Pristina. Fajon did not rule out November, when Kosovo will also receive the next European Commission (EC) Progress Report, …
Read More »NATO chief: EU-Turkey rift harming military cooperation
The dispute between the European Union and Turkey over Cyprus is damaging military cooperation with NATO and wasting tax-payers’ money, the head of the Alliance said on Thursday. “We fully agreed it is important to remove the remaining obstacles to reach the full potential of cooperation,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen said …
Read More »Moldova, Turkey considering visa cancellation
Moldova and Turkey may well cancel entry visas some day, it was said at the meeting, which Mihai Capatana, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, held with Ferit Гњlker, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to Moldova.
Read More »Germany supports Serbia’s EU path
Bavarian Federal and European Affairs Minister Emilia Muller said in Belgrade that Germany will provide all the necessary support to Serbia on its EU path. He added that Berlin is interested in strengthening economic
Read More »Medvedev vrea ca Rusia şi NATO să treacă peste neîncrederea istorică
Preşedintele rus Dmitri Medvedev a declarat meircuri că ţara sa şi NATO au o istorie marcată printr-o neîncredere profundă peste care trebuie să treacă, în timp ce el urmează să se ducă într-o lună la un summit NATO-Rusia la Lisabona. “Relaţiile între Rusia şi NATO au fost întotdeauna dificile, probabil …
Read More »Slovenia ratifies Serbia’s SAA
The National Assembly of Slovenia ratified unanimously Serbia’s Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU on Wednesday. Today is a big day for Serbian-Slovenian relations, stressed Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić, who is currently visiting Slovenia. Previously, the agreement, which Serbia signed in April 2008, was ratified by six …
Read More »IMF mission in Belgrade today
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission will arrive in Belgrade on Thursday, it has been announced. They will immediately begin technical talks with the Serbian government on the sixth revision of the stand-by arrangement between the IMF and Serbia, IMF Resident Representative in Serbia Bogdan Lissovolik said.
Read More »OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina trains police inspectors on war crimes investigation
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded today a training course for police investigators on war crime cases. Twenty-five police inspectors and two prosecutors from the District Prosecutor’s Office of Banja Luka and Doboj, as well as two investigators from the BiH Prosecutor’s Office in Sarajevo took part in …
Read More »EU president says Brussels to support united Bosnia
The European Union will support Bosnia in its bid to join the bloc as a united country that would be able to speak with one voice, visiting EU President Herman Van Rompuy said here on Wednesday. He was speaking after
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