September, 2011

• 5 September

  Serbian PM says EU is the country’s most important goal

  PM Mirko Cvetković today in Belgrade held a meeting with foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement, gathered in the capital for the organization’s summit. Cvetković stated on the occasion that Serbia saw as its most important goal to preserve the country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, while its foreign policy priority …

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• 5 September

  Serbian, Egyptian FMs mark 50 years of NAM

  Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić and his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Amr planted a tree at the Park of Friendship in Belgrade on Monday. It came 50 years since the planting of the first tree in the park, and is meant to symbolize friendship between peoples.

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• 5 September

  Serbia not to accept Kosovo customs officers

  Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that the agreement reaches in Brussels about the customs stamps is an opportunity for lifting the embargo on Serbian goods set by Kosovo’s authorities. According to the minister, Belgrade will not accept Kosovo’s customs officers and neither would it accept for the revenues …

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• 5 September

  Montenegrin PM and opposition hold new round of talks about the country’s language

  Montenegrin PM Igor Lukšić and opposition parties will hold today a new round of talks on the language taught in schools and the name of that subject. PZP will table the proposition that the school subject be called native language and literature.

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• 5 September

  Germany says Bulgaria and Romania are not ready to join Schengen

  Germany’s federal Ministry of Interior has no intention whatsoever to reverse its negative opinion on the readiness of Bulgaria and Romania to enter the Schengen free movement area. “At present, Sofia and Bucharest are still not ready to join the Schengen Agreement,” stated

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• 5 September

  EU President Van Rompuy says Greece leaving the euro zone is out of the question

  EU president Herman Van Rompuy ruled out today any question of Greece leaving the euro zone and indicated he was willing to serve a second term to help Europe overcome the debt crisis. 

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• 5 September

  Stefan Fule visits Macedonia

  Stefan Fuele is due in Macedonia on Monday, conducting a closer inspection of recent reforms enacted with a view to meeting EU demands. Fuele’s visit comes one month before the expected publication of a European Commission report on the country.

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• 5 September

  Bosnia’s biggest parties to discuss new government

  Leaders of the six biggest political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina will meet in Mostar on Monday to discuss the formation of a new state government, eleven months after the country’s last election. Ahead of the meeting, members of two political parties in the Republika Srpska met in the mountain …

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• 5 September

  Serbia sigen 1 billion euro agreement with IMF

  The IMF agreed standby loan of about 1 billion euro aimed at underwriting Serbia’s economic stability and attracting much-needed foreign investment. After a previous IMF deal expired earlier this year, Serbian officials sought a new precautionary arrangement with the IMF, worried

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• 2 September

  Dodik says it will not give up on four ministries in Bosnia council

  The Republic of Srpska (RS) will not give up on its request to have four ministries in the Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers. This was announced by RS president Milorad Dodik, who also specified that one of

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