May, 2012

• 24 May

  Newly elected Serbian President to resign from leader of Serbian Progressive Party

  Tomislav Nikolic, the Leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SDS), will resign from chairperson of the party. He promised to step down as head of the party if he will be elected as Serbian President. The Constitution of Serbian allows to the president to also be a member and leader …

  Read More »
• 24 May

  Slovak FM visits Belgrade

  Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak visited Belgrade on Thursday as an envoy of EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton. He met with Serbia’s Interior Minister and with newly elected president

  Read More »
• 24 May

  Albania will start election process for new President

  Albania’s parliament will start the procedure for the election of a new head of state on Thursday. Candidates must have the backing of 20

  Read More »
• 24 May

  Newly elected Serbia President to visit Moscow

  Newly elected President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic, will visit Moscow on May 26 to attend the congress of Russia’s ruling party, United Russia. He has accepted a long-standing invitation to take part to the congress of Russia’s ruling party. This will be Nikolic’s first visit abroad since he was elected …

  Read More »
• 23 May

  Hague Prosector Serge Brammertz visits Serbia

  Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will meet with Serbian officials in charge of cooperation with the court on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Brammertz met with Serbia’s Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević to talk about cooperation in ongoing cases against Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić. After this visit, Brammertz …

  Read More »
• 23 May

  Council of Europe to discuss conflicts in regions of Georgia

  The 122nd Ministerial of the Council of Europe will be held in Strasbourg on May 23. First Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia, Nikoloz Vashakidze, who will attend this meeting announced: “It is important that by consensus the agenda of the ministerial includes issue “On overcoming the circumstances that prevent human …

  Read More »
• 23 May

  Romania wants EU to review its cooperation verification mechanism

  Romania’s newly appointed Justice Minister Titus Corlatean has stated that EU’s Co-operation and Verification Mechanism for his country should be reviewed later this year. Five years after Romania’s accession to the European Union, it should be

  Read More »
• 23 May

  Georgia and Bulgaria to increase bilateral cooperation

  The Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, and his Georgian counterpart, Miheil Saakashvili, met during the NATO summit in Chicago and agreed to exchange official visits in near future. The two discussed a few ‘common grounds’.

  Read More »
• 23 May

  Bulgaria welcomes new Serbian President

  Bulgaria’s government has welcomed the election of the new Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in a statement of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov. “We welcome the election of Tomislav Nikolić as President of the Republic of Serbia and congratulate the Serbian people

  Read More »
• 23 May

  Skopje opposition criticize PM for interview on NATO

  Macedonian opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of damaging the national interest by unnecessarily antagonizing NATO in a recent interview. Opposition politicians have called on Prime Minister

  Read More »