High Representative Valentin Inzko said on Saturday (April 17th) that BiH’s EU visa liberalisation process may be delayed by three or four months, beyond the summer timeframe. “Some were hoping, including myself, that this will happen on July 1st, in the beginning of the holiday season,” Inzko told Deutsche Welle. …

Within several weeks, the government will be able to say whether Greece will need the EU’s financial support to overcome its financial crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou said in an interview with Newsweek on Saturday (April 17th). On Friday, he told

The UN war crimes tribunal announced on Friday (April 16th) it has decided to relieve the court appointed-lawyer of former Bosnian Serb wartime commander Radovan Karadzic of his duties, suggesting the defendant no longer needs his services. The court says Karadzic, who is conducting his own defence, is actively participating …

The UN war crimes tribunal announced on Friday (April 16th) it will rule on an appeal by former Macedonian security official Johan Tarculovski on May 19th. He was given a 12-year sentence for a police attack on the Albanian-populated village of Ljuboten, near Skopje, during the 2001 conflict between Macedonia’s …

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 …

„…este foarte important să se realizeze o autonomie teritorială în ceea ce priveşte Transnistria” (Zsolt Nemeth, viitor ministru de Externe al Ungariei, martie 2009) Evoluţiile regionale aduc pe scenă provocări la care nu există deocamdată răspunsuri limpezi. Răsăritul Europei nu va mai arăta la fel după resurgenţa recentă a Rusiei, …

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 …