April, 2010

• 23 April

  Council of Europe to close its info-center in Skopje, Ljubljana and Podgorica

  Council of Europe will shutdown its information centers in Skopje and Ljubljana as well as in Podgorica.  Secretary General of Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland made the proposal, while the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to close the info-centers in the three towns. „The Council of …

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• 23 April

  Parada independenţei şi „independenţa” paradei

  „Istoria se repetă pe ea însăşi, mai întâi ca o tragedie, apoi ca o farsă” (Karl Marx) Luni, 26 aprilie, deputaţii din primul Parlament urmează să se întrunească într-o şedinţă specială pentru a semna din nou textul Declaraţiei de Independenţă. Prilej de bilanţ, de numeroase şi necesare reflexii. Multe s-au …

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• 23 April

  The coming population exodus from the Balkans to the EU

  The EU in the end of 2009 took the decision of liberalizing the regime concerning visas by the citizens from several Western Balkan countries. It is also, widely discussed in Brussels, that after Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Fyrom, Bosnia will also have a visa-free regime by mid-2010, followed perhaps by …

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• 23 April

  Serbia, Croatia ready defense agreement

  Serbian and Croatian defense ministry officials Dušan Spasojević and Pjer Simunović, harmonized a defense agreement in Zagreb on Thursday. The deal should be signed by the two countries’ ministers of defense, reports said.

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• 23 April

  Greece requests EU/IMF aid package

  Greece on Friday requested the activation of a European Union/International Monetary Fund aid package. Athens is currently negotiating details of a 40-45 billion euro aid package with officials from the European Union and Monetary Fund aimed at pulling the country out of a debt crisis which has skaken the euro.

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• 23 April

  Georgian FM protests PACE-South Ossetia meeting

  The Georgian Foreign Ministry protested a meeting on post-conflict settlement between PACE Monitoring Committee Co-Rapporteur David Wilshire and Special Representative of South Ossetian de facto President Boris Chochiyev in Moscow.

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• 23 April

  ICTY Will Consider Application for Review in Sljivancanin Judgment

  For the first time since it was established, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, will hold a hearing to consider the review of a judgment delivered by the Appeals Chamber. On June 3 the Appeals Chamber will hold a hearing regarding Veselin Sljicancanin’s application for a review …

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• 23 April

  Bosnia Gets NATO Membership Plan

  The foreign ministers of NATO member states agreed at their meeting in Tallinn, Estonia on Thursday to extend a Membership Action Plan, MAP, to Bosnia, but attached conditions to its implementation. Bosnia’s top officials welcomed the decision, expressing hope that it would help stabilize the country and contribute to the …

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• 23 April

  RS authorities insist they are not denying Srebrenica crimes

  Republika Srpska (RS) President Rajko Kuzmanovic denied on Wednesday that the entity is attempting to minimise the crimes committed in Srebrenica in July 1995. On Tuesday, High Representative Valentin Inzko criticised a recent decision by the RS government to revise a report drafted by the previous government on the number …

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• 22 April

  EP Vice President shares Spanish foreign minister’s optimism for Macedonia

  European Parliament Vice President Miguel Angel Martinez shares the conviction and optimism of Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos that Macedonia will start the talks

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