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Swedish FM in Macedonia ahead of name row talks

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt visited Skopje Thursday on the eve of a meeting of Macedonian and Greece officials aimed at resolving an 18-year-old name dispute, officials said. Bildt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, met Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, the government said …

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Kuper: Za EU potrebne skromne promjene Ustava

Za otvaranje puta BiH prema EU su potrebne skromne promjene u Ustavu, izjavio je juče u Banjaluci Robert Kuper, generalni direktor za inostrane i vojnopolitičke poslove pri Generalnom sekretarijatu Savjeta EU. Kuper je nakon sastanka s Miloradom Dodikom, premijerom RS i liderom SNSD-a, kojem je dostavio nove prijedloge u vezi …

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Serbia, DCAF sign protocol in Geneva

Serbia’s Interior Ministry and police (MUP) have very good cooperation with the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). This is according to Interior Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dačić, who added in Geneva on Wednesday that Belgrade wants to improve it with the aim of …

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Russia to price gas supplies to Ukraine at European levels

Russia will price its gas supplies to Ukraine in line with European levels at an average 280 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters in 2010, the Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Wednesday. “The average price for next year will be about 280 dollars, which is in line with European …

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Hopes for help for Western Balkans to join the EU, but ‘will not be quick or simple’.

Enlarging the European Union to bring in further countries from South Eastern Europe will mean 100 million new EU citizens and will “not be a quick or simple process”, Carl Bildt, foreign minister of Sweden, told the European Parliament on November 25 2009.   Sweden currently holds the presidency of …

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