Moldova will hold a referendum on the new constitution instead of early elections after its parliament failed to elect a president twice last year, acting leader Mihai Ghimpu said Tuesday. The ruling coalition “agreed that there will be no early elections as they can bring about the repetition of the …

The new Klobuk checkpoint is to be opened officially on the border between Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday. The ceremony will be attended by Dimitris Kourkoulas, Head of the European Commission delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Security Minister

Good neighbourliness and friendship are part of a draft treaty Bulgaria has offered to Macedonia. Vesela Cherneva, a spokeswoman for the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry

Switzerland will grant 40 million euros over the next three years to support Serbia’s EU integration effort, Swiss Ambassador to Belgrade Erwin Hofer said. In outlining Switzerland’s 2010-2013 strategy for co-operation with Serbia, Hofer pointed out that the priority is for Belgrade to prepare to join the EU. The funds …

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini says the EU should scrap visa requirements for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as it did for other Balkan countries. Addressing an international forum in Gorizia, on the development of the Adriatic-Balkan region Monday, Frattini described BiH as a priority for Italy and the EU. He …

After a meeting Monday, the government announced the establishment of six working groups to implement the strategy for Serb-dominated northern Kosovo. The groups will include members of the government, the International Civilian Office and EULEX. The groups will work on the rule of law, émigré returns, reconciliation and start of …

Moldovan-Russian interministerial consultations between deputy foreign ministers are taking place in Moscow on March 9 and 10. In a communiqué, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova says the Moldovan delegation is headed by

Verdicts in the trials of Pane Bulat and Rade Vranesevic, former Republika Srpska Krajina soldiers charged with the murder of six Croat civilians in the town of Banski Kovacevac in Croatia in 1992, will be delivered on March 15 at the War Crimes Court in Belgrade.

PALE Glavni odbor SDS-a usvojio je jučer na sjednici u Palama deklaraciju u vezi sa ubistvom potpredsjednika te stranke i predsjednika Opštinskog odbora ove stranke u Doboju Branislava Garića, u kojoj se zahtjeva “nezavisna istraga” povodom tog slučaja. Glavni odbor SDS-a zatražio je od ministara pravde i unutrašnjih poslova RS …

Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych has suggested that Ukraine could enter the common economic space (CES), although only on the conditions of the World Trade Organization (WTO), he said.