June, 2011

• 27 June

  Macedonian Parliament holds first session

  The Macedonian parliament held its first session after the June 5 national poll, despite angry protestors surrounding the assembly building demanding accountability over the fatal police beating that happened on election

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• 27 June

  Kosovo hopes to find a compromise to trade blockade

  Kosovo hopes the two sides can find a compromise to the damaging trade blockade at next week’s meeting of members of CEFTA, the Central European Free Trade Agreement. The head of Kosovo’s dialogue delegation with Serbia, Edita Tahiri, said on Friday that she hoped the trade dispute between Kosovo

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• 24 June

  Macedonian, Greek PMs meet in Brussels

  Prime Ministers of Macedonia and Greece – Nikola Gruevski and Georgios Papandreou, met on Thursday in Brussels. The two declared readiness to solve the long-burning name dispute in the frames of the process within the UN. They also discussed issues of mutual interest for the two countries.

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• 24 June

  EU says Croatia can join the union in 2013

  European Union leaders gave Croatia the green light on Friday to join the bloc as they endorsed the closure of negotiations with Zagreb, a diplomat said. EU leaders meeting in Brussels adopted a declaration commending Croatia for its “intensive efforts, which have allowed accession negotiations to reach their final stage.”

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• 24 June

  Bulgaria wants to join Schengen under current conditions

  Bulgaria will insist on joining the Schengen zone under the current conditions, and only then will consider complying with additional criteria, according to the country’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov. The Bulgarian PM has been firm any additional conditions must be the same for all EU countries. “Currently we have fulfilled …

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• 24 June

  EU Enlargement Commissioner says Macedonia needs to push on with reforms for EU accession

  Enlargement Commissioner tells PM in Brussels to speed up reforms and work on solving ‘name’ row with Greece. Macedonia’s new government has to continue making progress on necessary reforms, or it

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• 24 June

  Chisinau willing to negotiate Transnistrian settlement, without preconditions

  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Moldova, Eugen Carpov, said that “Chisinau stands for faster resumption of official negotiations on Transnistrian conflict settlement in the 5+2 format with no preconditions” at a briefing in Chisinau on Thursday on the Moscow 5+2 format consultations of June 21.

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• 24 June

  Serbian official says that Bosniak Council elections need to be held this year

  Serbian Human and Minority Rights Minister Milan Marković has said that elections for the Bosniak National Council will need to be held by the end of the year. “This is a national interest and a need of the Bosniak community and it would be best if this issue

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• 24 June

  Aleksander Mezyaev will defend Mladić

  Aleksander Mezyaev, who was on Slobodan Milošević and Vojislav Šešelj’s defense teams, will be Ratko Mladić’s defense counsel. Mezyaev has been interested in leading the defense team ever since Mladić was arrested in the village of Lazarevo.

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• 24 June

  Priština expects several agreements to be reached in July.

  Head of Priština’s team in the Belgrade-Priština dialogue Edita Tahiri said she expects several agreements will be reached in July. They would refer to freedom of movement, free trade, telecommunications, energy, cadastres and birth registers, said she. Tahiri said that Kosovo has made concessions during the dialogue. 

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