September, 2010

• 17 September

  EU appointed new head of the European Commission (EC) Delegation in Albania

  Italian diplomat Ettore Sequi has been appointed as head of the European Commission (EC) Delegation in Albania, succeeding Helmut Lohan, whose four-year mandate expires this month. The office of EU foreign policy chief

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• 16 September

  Kosovo’s Prime Minister Thaci: Pristina-Belgrade talks will be transparent

  Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashin Thaci said the forthcoming talks between Belgrade and Pristina will be transparent and that Kosovo’s parliament has the last say over ratification of eventual deal.

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• 16 September

  Serbian Ministry for Kosovo: Serbia wants mediator in talks

  Serbian Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanović has stated that Belgrade and Priština cannot negotiate without a mediator.

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• 16 September

  Georgia hosts CE Parliamentary Assembly Committee meeting

  Georgia’s parliament today opened a meeting of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. Russian representatives are not attending the meeting after Tbilisi refused to grant them entry visas. The reason

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• 16 September

  IMF says Greece on track with reforms

  In a report Tuesday (September 14th), the IMF concluded that Greece is on track to cut its budget deficit according to plan this year, but should do more to improve tax collection and to control spending. According to the

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• 16 September

  Austria to ratify SAA with Serbia by year end

  Austria’s Parliament will ratify the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia by the end of the year, Barbara Prammer, speaker of the lower house, told visiting Serbian counterpart Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic

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• 16 September

  Albanian Interior Minister discusses progress with EC officials

  European Commission (EC) representatives praised Albania on Tuesday (September 14th) for meeting three additional criteria of the EU visa liberalisation process that were established in May. Albania’s Interior Minister

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• 15 September

  Macedonian PM to visit Brussels

  Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, accompanied by Deputy PM for European Affairs Vasko Naumovski and Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki are set to travel to Brussels this afternoon, where tomorrow they will meet with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule.

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• 15 September

  Serbian President to meet Stefan Fuele

  Serbian President Boris Tadić will meet with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele in Belgrade on September 17. Fuele will use his visit to Belgrade to discuss practical issues of Serbia’s EU integration with Serbian officials, according to earlier information from Fuele’s office and an announcement from the president’s cabinet.

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• 15 September

  Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic: Serbia can’t join EU unless it solves Kosovo issue

  Serbia can’t join the European Union (EU) unless it solves Kosovo issue, but same goes for Kosovo as it can’t join EU unless all EU member states recognize Kosovo’s independence.

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