Up to twenty people were injured Sunday in clashes between Kosovo’s police and Serbs, sparked by electricity cuts. The protests began at the eastern village of Gjilan/Gnjilane, when police say protesters gathered and blocked the Gjilane/Gnjilane-Bujanovac road. Kosovo Police said that ten policemen were injured as around 300 Serbs threw …

The scrapping of EU visas for Macedonia, Serbia and most likely Montenegro will probably be postponed for several months, media in Skopje claimed on Monday. The “visa wall” can only fall in mid-2010, and not at the beginning of the year as previously hoped, local Utrinski Vesnik daily reports. According …

AutHor: Mirza Čubro Granična policija BiH nije imala obavezu da evidentira ulazak Branimira Glavaša u Bosnu i Hercegovinu, tvrdi Vinko Dumančić, direktor Granične policije. Kaže da zbog ovog razloga ni ne znaju kada je i na kojem prelazu u našu zemlju ušao Glavaš, zastupnik Sabora Hrvatske, nakon što je u …

AutHor: Mirza Čubro Bijeg u BiH Branimira Glavaša, osuđenog na deset godina zatvora zbog zločina nad srpskim civilima u Osijeku, izazvao je žestok revolt hrvatske javnosti. Hrvatsko pravosuđe u posljednjih pola godine susreće se s problemom bijega osuđenih pred tamošnjim sudovima u BiH. Od izručenja ih štiti Ustav BiH, koji …

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili agreed to meet opposition leaders on Monday after a month of street protests in the former Soviet republic. Clashes on Wednesday between police and protesters, a day after a brief, bloodless mutiny at a tank base outside Tbilisi, have fuelled fears of wider anti-government unrest in …

SKOPJE, Macedonia NATO will keep its doors open to countries in the Western Balkans, outgoing Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer pledged on Friday (May 8th) during a visit to Skopje.

WASHINGTON, United States The IMF announced on Friday (May 8th) it has approved Kosovo’s application for membership, confirming reports by Kosovo officials earlier in the week. The IMF’s executive board has certified an earlier vote by the Board of Governors to offer membership to Kosovo, the IMF said in a …

NICOSIA, Cyprus Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said on Saturday (May 9th) his side plans to call a referendum on a reunification proposal by the end of this year or early in 2010. He said his aim is to complete the first phase of reunification talks with Cypriot President …

ANKARA, Turkey Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu rejected on Friday (May 8th) any alternative to full EU membership for Turkey. “All we ask of the EU is to keep its promises. Proposing alternative memberships is disrespectful not to us, but to the European culture itself,” Davutoglu told a meeting with EU …

WASHINGTON, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and visiting Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu signed a bilateral agreement on legal assistance and a new extradition treaty Friday (May 8th).