April, 2010

• 12 April

  EC will not monitor Montenegro’s local elections

  The European Commission (EC) will not send a special mission to monitor the upcoming local election in Montenegro, the head of the EC delegation in Podgorica, Leopold Maurer, said on Friday (April 9th). The comment came after a request of the opposition Movement for Changes (PzP), which earlier asked the …

  Read More »
• 9 April

  7 aprilie – „un pogrom”, iar Basarabia – „un lagăr de concentrare”

  „Politica este arta de a-i face pe oameni să creadă” (Machiavelli) Disputele care există la Chişinău în legătură cu semnificaţia zilei de 7 aprilie trebuie aşezate pe ecranul mai larg al bătăliei pentru simboluri care a marcat istoria RM de la constituirea ei recentă până astăzi. Bătălia pentru simboluri Confruntarea …

  Read More »
• 9 April

  Council of Europe committee to visit Georgia

  Rapporteurs of the Council of Europe Monitoring Committee Matyas Eorsi and David Wilshire will pay a working visit to Georgia April 11. They will meet Special Representative of the Council of Europe’s Secretary General Boris Vodz.

  Read More »
• 9 April

  Austria’s foreign minister coming to Moldova friday

  Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Michael Spindelegger will pay a working visit to Chisinau on April 9 on the invitation of his Moldovan colleague – Deputy Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Iurie Leanca. The diplomats will discuss bilateral relations and possibilities of providing assistance by Austria to …

  Read More »
• 9 April

  Slovakia won’t recognize Kosovo

  Slovakia will not change its stand on recognition of Kosovo, Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčak has told Kosovo Albanian officials. “We will not recognize it (Kosovo) and this remains our stand,” Lajčak said after a meeting with Skender Hyseni, appointed by the government in Priština as its foreign minister, late …

  Read More »
• 9 April

  Visa lifting unlikely for Bosnians in June

  Bosnia will not get on the white Schengen list in July, experts of the EU and Bosnia working on the visa regime liberalization have agreed. Tanja Fajon, European Parliament rapporteur on visa liberalization in the Western Balkans, confirmed that visa liberalization is

  Read More »
• 9 April

  Austria to join South Stream

  Russia’s Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko says Austria will join the Russian-backed South Stream gas pipeline project in April. Russian news agencies are quoting Shmatko as saying Thursday that this would be the final deal before construction begins later this year.

  Read More »
• 9 April

  Visa issues as Romania readies for Schengen Area

  Romania readies to adhere to Schengen Area, a difficult procedure that will impose some limits regarding foreign citizens’ access in Romania, according to Attila Korodi, president of the committee for foreign affairs from the Chamber of Deputies.

  Read More »
• 9 April

  Tadić: War not threatening Bosnia

  Serbian President Boris Tadić says that he and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg agreed that “information that Bosnia is threatened by war” was untrue. “This isn’t about any sort of war, the situation is being overdramatized, I don’t know to what end. The problems should be identified through a …

  Read More »
• 9 April

  Turkey, Greece accept new confidence building measures

  Turkey and Greece on Thursday announced a series of measures to build confidence between the two neighbors. The deal was reached in the course of the meeting between Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The five measures include joint educational programs

  Read More »