June, 2011

• 17 June

  Valentin Inzko says Bosnia needs to from a new government now

  Top international envoy to Bosnia Valentin Inzko urged Bosnia’s ethnically divided politicians on Thursday to quickly form a government after the nomination of Bosnian Croat Slavo Kukic as prime minister. “The political elite of Bosnia-Hercegovina must agree as quickly as possible on the formation of a new government. Eight and …

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• 17 June

  EU to create joint refugee body for Western Balkans

  Vincent Degert, head of the European Union’s delegation to Serbia, announced on Thursday the formation of a joint regional body to resolve the refugee problems resulting from the breakup of Yugoslavia.

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• 17 June

  Moldovan historians want to bring history of Romanians back to schools

  A certain part of Moldovan historians are demanding from the Moldovan Government to bring “The History of the Romanians” course back to Moldovan educational institutions, instead of “The History of Moldova” taught presently. 

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• 17 June

  CoE will continue to support Moldova’s democratic reforms

  The Council of Europe will be providing its further support for democratic reforms in Moldova, CoE Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland stated in Strasbourg during his meeting with Moldovan Minister of the Interior Brig. The Minister briefed the CoE Secretary General on the ongoing reform of law enforcement agencies, and assured …

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• 17 June

  Macedonian opposition splits

  Freshly elected MPs in the Social-Democrat-led opposition bloc have announced they are forming their own caucus – but deny plans to join the rightist government. Two prominent opposition MPs, Tito Petkovski and Fijat Canovski, announced

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• 17 June

  Stefan Fule says everything is in Serbia’s hands on its path toward the EU

  EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said that there were no new conditions for Serbia’s on its path toward the EU. He repeated that it was necessary for Serbia to fulfill the Action plan which had been adopted earlier by the Serbian government in order to get the EU candidate status.

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• 17 June

  Serbian Deputy PM Đelić presents proposals for EU financial assistance

  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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• 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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