March, 2013

• 4 March

  EU Criticises Albania Referendum Proposal

  EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele condemned the ruling majority’s decision to hold a referendum on three bills required for Albania’s EU candidate status bid.I have been repeatedly stressing that the laws, and in particular the rules of procedures, need to be approved through consensus between the opposition and government and …

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• 4 March

  Slovenia PM-Designate Backs Croatia EU treaty

  New leader of Slovenia says her country will not stand in the way of Croatia’s membership of the European Union.Ratification of Croatia’s European Union accession treaty is not just a question of good-neighbourly relations but is also in Slovenia’s strategic interest, Slovenia’s Prime Minister-designate Alenka Bratusek told the Croatian newspaper …

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• 4 March

  Presidential Race Hots Up in Montenegro

  After the incumbent, Filip Vujanovic, launched his campaign late last week in Bar, his main rival, Miodrag Lekic will hold his first election convention in Niksic on Monday.Billboards that went up in the capital, Podgorica, on Friday, showing a smiling Vujanovic dressed casually in a beige sweater and white shirt, …

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• 4 March

  Azerbaijani-Croatian ministerial consultations to be held in Zagreb

  Azerbaijani-Croatian ministerial consultations are underway in Zagreb. A delegation from the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s led

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• 4 March

  50 rebels, French soldier killed in some of ‘heaviest fighting’ in Mali

  Heavy fighting in northern Mali has left at least 50 rebel fighters and a French soldier dead, officials said Sunday, as Chad promised to prove its soldiers had killed two top Islamist militants. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called for “caution” on Chad’s reports

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• 4 March

  British foreign minister pledges support in Mali visit

  British Foreign Secretary William Hague vowed continued support for Mali’s fight against Islamist militants as he visited the west African country on Monday, his ministry said. The Foreign Office said Hague had met with Mali’s president and prime minister as well as French-backed African

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• 4 March

  People gather in Bulgarian capital to hold protest

  Over 50 people have gathered for tonight’s protest in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in Orlov Most (Eagles’ Bridge) crossroads. They have lit candles, brought flowers and photos of 36-year-old Plamen Goranov, who self-immolated in front of the

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• 4 March

  EU sees good progress between Belgrade and Pristina talks

  The EU said Monday the latest round of talks it sponsors between Serbia and Kosovo, aimed at defusing tensions in one of Europe’s last trouble-spots, had made good progress and they would meet again later this month. EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton said a sixth series of talks she

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• 4 March

  Athens, Ankara seek further warming of ties to boost trade

  Turkish-Greek mutual trade, which reached $6.6 billion in ten years, promises even a larger potential, the prime ministers of the two neighbors believe. Turkey and Greece are set to foster their economic ties further, with both sides pleased at the state of their existing relationship, the prime

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• 4 March

  Turkish PM calls for joint effort with Greece to settle Cyprus issue

  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday urged his Greek counterpart to extend joint efforts to end a dispute over the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus which has been divided between a Turkish north and a Greek south since 1974.

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