The EU has expressed its appreciation to Montenegro for the stabilising role it has played in the Western Balkans. During a two-day visit by Podgorica’s chief diplomat Milan Rocen, the Spanish EU presidency expressed hopes that Montenegro’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement will come into force at the Stabilisation and Association …

Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčak said that EU representative in Kosovo Pieter Feith can continue to represent the EU in Kosovo.

UN special envoy on the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece, Matthew Nimetz, arrived in Macedonia on Tuesday for a new round of consultations with the country’s top officials. “I expect a lot,” mediator Nimetz said, adding that he is doing his outmost to help resolution of the dispute. Mediator …

Internal political processes were discussed by Movement for Fair Georgia leader Zurab Noghaideli, during his visit to Brussels.

Bulgaria can join the Euro area in 2013. This is what President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek said after the meeting with the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov. Expectedly the economic crisis was among the issues discussed during the meeting between the Bulgarian President and the President of the EP. …

A Council of Europe, CoE, delegation that intervened to solve Albania’s ongoing political crisis urged on Tuesday the country’s opposition and the government majority to end the stalemate.

The European Commission adopted Monday a proposal to prolong the exceptional autonomous trade preferences which the European Union grants to Western Balkan countries until 2015, the Commission’s press service informs. The aim of this proposal is to ensure that Western Balkan economies continue to benefit from an unlimited duty free …

The conference, organised by the Dutch government and the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project at University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, aims to open the floor to different actors to talk about the Tribunal’s achievements in promoting rule of law, peace and justice in the former Yugoslavia, …

The Government of Moldova issued an official communique, announcing that it took cognizance of the U.S.-Romanian agreements to base anti-missile defense systems in Romania and analyzed their open character, allowing other interested players to get involved in strengthening common security.

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said that the most contentious points in Serbian-Croatian relations are a border issue and problems related to the wartime and post-war period. Josipovic, said that the border problem with Serbia was not as big as the one with Slovenia and that it would be easier to …