A meeting of the EU Committee for the Western Balkans heard that the EU is content with Serbia’s efforts towards regional cooperation. Reports from Brussels this Friday said that it was stated at the meeting that there could be discussion of Serbia’s candidacy for EU membership in June.

U.S. ambassador to Serbia Mary Warlick said that America wants to help Serbia join the World Trade Organization (WTO). “We hope that finishing the process of joining the WTO would be an important component in joining the EU and opening the market. We believe that this is

“Early elections will be probably held at the end of 2010 or at the beginning of next year. We have two initiatives for amending article 78 from Constitution, but there is a risk to go to elections with the same content of the Constitution”, stated today Moldovan prime-minister Vlad Filat …

Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said that Serbia’s entrance into NATO is not being discussed currently, and won’t be any time soon. “No one is setting NATO as a condition for joining the EU, although, all countries who have become member of the European family recently were first members of …

SARAJEVO Finansijska policija FBiH podnijela je Tužilaštvu BiH krivične prijave protiv većine visokih dužnosnika iz Federacije BiH, koji su odlukama Vlade ovog entiteta iz 1999. i 2000. godine dobili novac za adaptaciju ili kupovinu stanova. Osumnjičene Finansijska policija tereti za protupravno sticanje imovinske koristi. Sud BiH je prošle sedmice nepravosnažnom …

Former Prime Minister and President of FYROM, Branko Crvenkovski, has urged Bulgaria to recognize the existence of a “Macedonian nation.” Crvenkovski, who is the Chair of the Macedonian Social-Democratic Union, and was President of Macedonia in 2005-2009, met Thursday with the acting Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, and with the leader …

The presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Hungary have started their meeting today in Pecs, Hungary. Boris Tadić, Ivo Josipović and Laszlo Solyom will address journalists afterwards. The three presidents would discuss specific forms of cooperation.

Georgian Deputy Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze discussed strengthening Georgian-French ties with French National Assembly members Roland Blum and Christian Batay during their visit to the country. Blum and Batay will study the situation in Georgia and present a report to their colleagues, Baramidze said at a joint press conference after …

The Bulgarian nationalist party VMRO is making formal steps to call a referendum on Turkey’s EU accession. On Friday, the party will formally notify the Parliament on its intention to start collecting signatures in order to request the holding of a national referendum, as required by law.

Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland praised the reforms implemented in Serbia during a visit to the country Wednesday (April 14th). He announced that the CoE’s Committee of Ministers has decided to