May, 2012

• 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 …

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• 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

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• 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’.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 23 May

  EU officials say Bosnia is closer to EU membership

  Bosnian and EU officials met in Sarajevo on Tuesday and concluded that Bosnia is getting closer to EU membership. The Bosnian Prime Minister, Vjekoslav Bevanda, said that the implementation of the Sejdic – Finci ruling, one of the preconditions for the start

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• 21 May

  Germany and France pledge to support Greece

  Germany and France pledged Monday to do whatever was needed to keep Greece in the eurozone, as political turmoil in the debt-wracked country threatens to force it out of the club. “We agreed that we have to do everything to keep Greece in the euro club,” Schaeuble told a joint …

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• 21 May

  New Serbian President says it will keep direction towards EU

  Newly elected President of Serbia, 60 years-old Tomislav Nikolic, vowed to keep Belgrade on its path to Brussels. “Serbia will not turn away from the European path,” said the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), now the country’s biggest after the May 6 parliamentary and first-round presidential elections. However, …

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• 21 May

  OSCE satisfied with peaceful elections in Kosovo for Serbia

  Eamon Gilmore, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister, welcomed the successful completion of voting in Kosovo in the second round of the Serbian presidential election. “I am satisfied that the elections took place

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• 21 May

  Nikola Gruevski criticises NATO over blockade

  Ahead of the NATO summit in Chicago, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski harshly criticised the Alliance for nurturing what he described as double standards and selective respect of international law when it comes to country’s accession. 

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