November, 2011

• 3 November

  CoE official meets with serb leaders in North Kosovo

  CoE Political Affairs Committee Rapporteur on Kosovo Committee Bjorn von Sydow met in Kosovska Mitrovica with heads of four Serb municipalities in the north. The meeting on Wednesday focused on the situation on the ground, issues related to the return of property, internally displaced persons and Kosovska Mitrovica’s court, Sydow …

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• 3 November

  EP president Jerzy Buzek calls on Belgrade and Pristina to dialogue

  European Parliament (EP) President Jerzy Buzek on Thursday called for a resumption of the Belgrade-Priština dialogue. Addressing Serbian MPs, he said it was in Serbia’s interest to advance its efforts to normalize relations with Priština.

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• 3 November

  EU Commission: Greece staying in euro zone is only option

  The place of Greece is within the euro zone and there are instruments in place to ensure that, the European Union’s executive arm said on Thursday, adding that it considered this was the only option on the table.

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• 3 November

  EU urges dialogue in Kosovo case

  Europe says the blame game over Serb-run northern Kosovo must end and the two sides need to return to the negotiating table. A European diplomat says Europe wants mutual accusations to end between Kosovo and Serbia over who

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• 2 November

  Eurozone leaders to hold talks about Greece

  The eurozone leaders will hold extraordinary talks about Greece, which unexpectedly decided to put the new EU bailout to a referendum. Athens has made one more surprise to the world. The government has supported Prime Minister Georgios Papandreu about

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• 2 November

  Turkey hosts summit on Afghan future

  Senior diplomats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday for a global conference aimed at mapping out the future of war-torn Afghanistan after Western troops depart. Representatives from 20 countries will join aid agency members at the talks in Istanbul almost 10 years after the Taliban were driven out of power …

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• 2 November

  Greek cabinet backs George Papandreou’s referendum plan

  Greece’s cabinet has given unanimous backing to a controversial plan by PM George Papandreou to hold a referendum on a EU debt rescue package. He told an emergency cabinet meeting that a referendum would offer “a clear mandate” for austerity measures demanded by other eurozone members. Stock markets recorded big …

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• 2 November

  Hague Chief Prosecutor Mladić Trial to move faster

  Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz says the prosecution would do everything it could so that the trial of Ratko Mladć would be sped up as much as possible. The former military leader of Serbs in Bosnia was indicted for war crimes and genocide.

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• 2 November

  Romania reiterates position on Kosovo

  Romania’s President Traian Basescu has reiterated during a visit in Belgrade his country’s position that it has no intention whatsoever to recognize the independence of Kosovo. After meeting with his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic on Tuesday, Basescu stressed that “at this point there is not a single condition under which …

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• 2 November

  Goran Saric arrested in Bosnia for war crimes

  Bosnian police today detained a Bosnian Serb ex-police commander suspected of having ordered the murder of 10 Muslim civilians at the start of the 1992-95 siege of Sarajevo, prosecutors said.

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