Eurasia Press & News
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for EU Integration Bozidar Đelić presented on in Brussels presented proposals on EU financial assistance. The suggestions were made in conversation with three EU commissioners in charge of financial affairs, and focused on how to make EU assistance to Serbia and other regional countries more efficient.
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June, 2011
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17 June
United States rejects division of Kosovo
Washington “absolutely rejects the idea of a division of Kosovo as it is dangerous for Kosovo and the entire Balkans”, a U.S. State Department official said. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon was in Priština on Thursday.
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17 June
Greek PM to reshuffle cabinet
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced a cabinet reshuffle in a bid to get support for the austerity measures which have split his ruling party. Evangelos Venizelos, once Papandreou’s biggest rival, is the new finance minister. He had been in charge of defense and has now also been appointed …
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16 June
Serbian Deputy PM calls on EU to be “fair to Serbia”
Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić said on Thursday in Brussels that Serbia’s goal was to start accession talks with the EU in the spring of 2012. He urged the EU to be firm but just, and not to invent new obstacles to block Serbia’s European future. The Serbian deputy …
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16 June
EC opens 3 infringement procedures against Bulgaria
The European Commission (EC) has opened three infringement procedures against Bulgaria over a flawed public procurement tender and the country’s failure to incorporate two Directives into its national legislation.
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16 June
NATO afirmă că nu va face presiuni asupra Serbiei în privinţa aderării
Un important oficial NATO a declarat că Alianţa Nord-Atlantică nu va face presiuni asupra Serbiei să adere la această organizaţie, ci doreşte să consolideze relaţiile cu ţara balcanică pe care a bombardat-o în 1999, relatează AP. Generalul Stephane Abrial, care conduce unul dintre cele două comandamente “supreme” ale NATO – …
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16 June
Hungarian PM says the EU needs BiH and the Western Balkans integrated
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, said on Wednesday in Sarajevo that Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)’s membership in the EU was equally important to all parties.
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16 June
Bosnian Serbs will not support nominated PM
Slavo Kukic, Bosnia’s nominee premier, looks highly unlikely to get support from Serb representatives in parliament, in which case Bosnia’s eight-month search for a Prime Minister goes on. Bosnia looks unlikely to get a new Prime Minister at the end of this week, after Bosnian Serbs said they would veto …
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16 June
CoE official Thomas Hammarberg supports Serbia’s efforts on Kosovo organ allegations
Serbian Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić conferred on Wednesday in Belgrade with Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg. They discussed ways to establish “the full truth about the trafficking of human organs in Kosovo”.
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16 June
U.S. official Philip Gordon says that Serbia and the United States improved their bilateral relations
A visiting U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday that Serbia and the United States had improved their bilateral relations. They shared the same vision of Serbia in the European Union, said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon.
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