The Bulgarian Parliament voted Thursday against the proposal to make a change in the Constitution that would allow both the elections for the European Parliament and the national one to be held on the same day. The proposal was made by NDSV, a member of the ruling three way coalition, …

Albania’s Minister of Culture Ylli Pango was fired on Wednesday, after a video showing him allegedly asking sexual favours from young women applying for a job in his ministry was broadcast on TV. The video and audio broadcast on the investigative program Fisk Fare on Top Channel TV shows Pango …

Jovica Stanisic, the former chief of Serbia’s State Security, secured the CIA’s support in his bid to clear his name at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia with the help of Russia’s former prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov, according to Belgrade daily Blic. The same newspaper also claims that Stanisic …

The first trial to be held in Kosovo’s northern town of Mitrovica after the courts in the town shut down in February 2008, has begun. The EU’s Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, EULEX, opened the trial against two Kosovo Serbs charged with breaking into the home of an elderly …

On the second day of Serbia’s Economic Forum held in the Kopaonik ski resort, the country’s President and government ministers gave some impressive speeches but failed to shed any new light on government policy. Tadic told the gathering that that he expects his government to reach an agreement with the …

Bulgaria is preparing contingency plans to ration gas to industrial consumers in case the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia once again blocks supplies to the country, the economy minister Petar Dimitrov said on March 04. Since Bulgaria relies entirely on Russian gas transited through Ukraine, Bulgaria was one of …

In a keynote speech delivered at an annual forum of Serbian economists the country’s president Boris Tadic delivered an impassioned call for an end to links between business, the state and crime. Addressing what some sections of the media have dubbed “Serbia’s Davos”, Tadic told delegates that without greater development …

RUSSIA is open to overtures from the US on its proposed missile defence plan but not to a deal in which the US would shelve the plan in exchange for Russia’s help on Iran. The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, said he was responding to a report about a private letter …

TBILISI, Georgia: A leading Georgian opposition party is putting forth its leader to challenge President Mikhail Saakashvili. Labor Party leader Shalva Natelashvili’s decision comes as opposition groups struggle to force Saakashvili to hold new elections.

NATO foreign ministers are set Thursday to green-light the resumption of formal high-level ties with Russia while reassuring Georgia and Ukraine they have a future in the military alliance. NATO diplomats confirmed Wednesday an in-principle agreement to end the freeze, sparked by Russia’s war with Georgia last August, in an …