June, 2011

• 10 June

  Serb refugees hoping to delay Croatia’s EU accession

  As Zagreb awaits good news on its EU entry talks on Friday, Serb refugees from Croatia are hoping to postpone the country’s membership until their demands are met. The Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, made up of ethnic Serbs who fled Croatia during the conflict in the 1990s, is …

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• 10 June

  France says Romania and Bulgaria were delayed Schengen because of corruption

  France has cited corruption at the borders as the main argument for delaying Bulgaria and Romania’s entry into the EU passport-free Schengen area, though acknowledging the two countries have met all technical requirements.

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• 9 June

  Serbia, Azerbaijan moving towards a strategic partnership

  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev started his two-day visit to Serbia on Wednesday – today he and Serbian counterpart Boris Tadić will be in Novi Sad. Aliyev said yesterday that cooperation between the two countries had significantly stepped up lately, and that this visit showed that relations between them had strategic …

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• 9 June

  Karadzic says that Bosniak and Croat leaders bear responsibility for starting the war

  At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the indictee says that Bosniak and Croat leaders began arming themselves before Serbs, and therefore bear responsibility for the start of the war. During cross-examination, Karadzic said that Prosecution witness Patrick Treanor failed to consider many things when he made his conclusions, adding that …

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• 9 June

  Tomislav Mercep, a former Croatian official, indicted for 1991 war crimes

  Tomislav Mercep, a top advisor in Croatia’s wartime Interior Ministry, has been indicted for war crimes against civilians committed in 1991. The Zagreb County Prosecutor’s Office issued the indictment against Mercep, who has been in custody since December, for war crimes against civilians committed in 1991.

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• 9 June

  Bulgaria and Romania were denied joining Schengen

  The hopes of Bulgaria and Romania of joining the Schengen visa zone had a major setback on June 9 2011 when European Union justice and home affairs ministers decided to postpone a decision on the applications.

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• 9 June

  EU Interior Ministers to decide on Bulgaria and Romania’s Schengen entry

  European Union interior ministers are meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday and Friday to take a decision on Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to the border-free Schengen area. The meeting comes just a day after the non-binding vote of the European Parliament, which voted in favor of allowing

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• 9 June

  Tadic belives Holland will ratify SAA

  Serbian President Boris Tadić believes the Dutch parliament and countries that have not ratified the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) will do so soon.

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• 9 June

  Serbia, Romania sign agreement on readmission

  Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić and Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi signed an agreement on readmission in Bucharest on Wednesday. This, said the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, represents one step further in Serbia’s EU integration.

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• 9 June

  Kosovo, Serbia Dialogue ‘Can Improve Situation in North’

  The head of the EU mission in Kosovo reiterates that political will from Belgrade and Pristina is necessary to improve the situation in the north. Xavier De Marnhac, head of the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, said recently that he is interested in expanding the rule-of-law in the disputed …

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