November, 2010

• 23 November

  EU-Western Balkans forum starts in Brussels

  A two-day forum of EU and Western Balkans justice and home affairs ministers begins in Brussels on Tuesday. The forum will review the progress in the stabilization and association process in the field of home affairs. The meeting will focus on improving

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• 23 November

  Serbia interested in joining Belene NPP construction

  Serbia is interested in joining the construction of Bulgaria’s second nuke plant of Belene as one of the investors in the project. This is said in a letter sent by Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic to Bulgarian counterpart

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• 23 November

  IMF: Greece must make extra effort

  Greece’s international lenders have agreed the latest instalment of a loan to the debt-stricken country, but say Greece must make “an extra effort” to address its deficit next year.

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• 23 November

  Dodik names RS PM designate

  President of the Serb republic (RS) in Bosnia Milorad Dodik announced on Tuesday that he has named Aleksandar Džombić prime minister designate. The 42-year-old previously served as minister of finance of the

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• 23 November

  Georgian President to visit Moldova

  The President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili will pay an official visit to Moldova during November 23 – 24, at the invitation of Acting President Mihai Ghimpu. Mikhail Saakashvili will meet with Moldovan President Mihai

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• 23 November

  Bosnia is divided, says Dodik

  Bosnia is a country “irreversibly divided” along ethnic lines, Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik told a Serbian paper on Monday, 15 years after a peace deal ended the country’s inter-ethnic war in the 1990s. “Bosnia is divided in an irreversible way” and “they (the international community) will

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• 23 November

  Turkish PM: No deal unless EU acts on trade with Turkish Cyprus

  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey is ready to open its ports to Greek Cypriot vessels and aircraft if the European Union takes steps to end the economic isolation of Turkish Cyprus. Erdoğan, speaking to reporters on Monday, said Turkey would not change its position on Cyprus …

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• 23 November

  EU Commissioner Stefan Füle statement on Palanca (Moldova-Ukraine border)

  “I welcome the outcome of last Friday’s meeting in Chisinau between representatives of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, called in at the joint initiative of the European Union and the United States of America to discuss the situation at the Ukrainian-Moldovan state border near the Palanca village. Solutions to …

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• 23 November

  US calls for progress in BiH on Dayton anniversary

  Marking the 15th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreements on Sunday (November 21st), US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Bosnian leaders to address remaining constitutional and other issues that are essential to progress. She described the accord that ended the 1992-1995 conflict as a cornerstone of peace and …

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• 22 November

  Macedonia meets NATO accession criteria but still has to solve name issue

  Macedonia is ready and the doors for its NATO accession are open but the membership will be a fact after the name dispute with Greece is solved. This is the conclusion drawn at the NATO summit in Lisbon about Macedonia. Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov, who attended the forum in Lisbon, …

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