December, 2010

• 13 December

  Kosovo: Thaci’s Democratic Party has lead

  Early results of the Kosovo elections show the party of Hashim Thaci has the lead, while Serb parties that participated accuse each other. The Priština-based Gani Bobi Institute said late on Sunday that Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo had picked up 31 percent of the vote, followed by Isa Mustafa’s …

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• 13 December

  Greek PM pledges to build Athens mosque

  Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou pledged to build a long-delayed mosque in Athens for Muslim residents, noting that failure to provide such a facility for over two decades was a “disgrace”.

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• 13 December

  Inzko calls on international community to be proactive in BiH

  High Representative Valentin Inzko urged the international community to remain pro-actively engaged with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). After talks with Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and German Secretary of State Wolf-Ruthart Born in Berlin on Friday (December 10th), he said that BiH needs to improve its decision making and to …

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• 13 December

  NATO Secretary-General says Montenegro needs to focus on reforms

  NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said it is too early to talk about a possible date for Montenegro’s accession to NATO. In an interview with the daily Pobjeda on Saturday (December 11th), he urged authorities to focus on reforms. Montenegro was invited to join NATO’s membership action plan (MAP) in …

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• 13 December

  Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia back EU integration of Western Balkans

  Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov and his Greek and Serbian counterparts, Dimitris Droutsas and Vuk Jeremic, have voiced support for the EU integration of Western Balkan countries. The three top diplomats met in Sofia on Saturday (December 11th). Mladenov said that Bulgaria and Greece, as EU members, have the historic …

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• 10 December

  Georgia has a new ambassador to Azerbaijan

  The Georgian Parliament approved Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Azerbaijan Teimuraz Sharashenidze on Friday. Teimuraz Sharashenidze previously served as consul general to Istanbul, he is a career diplomat. 

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• 10 December

  Greece against possible suspension of EU voting rights

  Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Friday spoke out strongly against Germany’s idea of sanctions against serial budget sinners, saying it would trigger a referendum in the country.

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• 10 December

  Conference on South East Europe in Germany today

  Conference on South East Europe will begin in Berlin tonight. The organizers point out that “stabilization of the Western Balkans and region’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures remains one of the main challenges of common European foreign and security policy”. 

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• 10 December

  Georgia to host meeting on prevention of tension in Caucasus

  The Ergneti village on the Georgian-Ossetian administrative border will today host a regular meeting under the mechanism to prevent and respond to border incidents today. The representatives of South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia, the OSCE and the EU will attend.

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• 10 December

  Moldova: Curtea Constituţională admite cererea PCRM de renumărare a voturilor

  Curtea Constituţională din Republica Moldova a admis solicitarea PCRM privind renumărarea voturilor exprimate în scrutinul legislativ din 28 noiembrie, prin urmare, Comisia Electorală Centrală urmează să renumere voturile. Cererea PCRM a fost admisă din cauza incompatibilităţilor dintre datele înscrise în procesele verbale primite de la birourile electorale şi documentele postate …

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