March, 2010

• 23 March

  Kosovo Reports on Trade Relations with the EU

  Kosovo’s government has created an inter-ministerial council to complete a questionnaire on trade relations with the EU. The council is led by the minister of trade and industry, Lutfi Zharku. Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci asked the members of the council on Monday to have the answers ready by April …

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• 23 March

  European Commission interim report calls for more from Bulgaria, Romania

  The European Commission in its interim report released today criticized Bulgaria and Romania for certain weaknesses which remain in the areas of judicial reform and the fight against corruption, while noting that progress had been made in certain fields.

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• 23 March

  Slovenian Top Court approves Croatia border deal

  Slovenia’s Constitutional Court gave a green light on Tuesday to a border arbitration agreement with Croatia, helping remove a major obstacle in Zagreb’s European Union accession talks.

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• 23 March

  Spor zbog insistiranja na detaljnoj promjeni Ustava

  SARAJEVO Radna grupa Vijeća ministara BiH za pripremu ustavnih amandmana u ponedjeljak nije postigla saglasnost o prijedlogu promjena Ustava BiH u skladu sa presudom Evropskog suda za ljudska prava u Strazburu. Stranke iz Republike Srpske predložile su promjenu samo u dijelu koji se odnosi na izbor članova Predsjedništva BiH, dok …

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• 23 March

  EC Interim Report about Bulgaria, Romania to be issued today

  The European Commission’s interim report in connection with mechanisms for collaboration and control of internal affairs and justice systems in Bulgaria and Romania will be issued today, a spokesman officially announced.

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• 23 March

  PACE president pays official visit to Moldova

  Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make an official visit to Moldova from on March 22 through 25, where he aims to promote stability and fully functioning

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• 23 March

  Serbia to Establish Mission to NATO By June

  Petar Boskovic, the head of the Directorate for Public Affairs at the Ministry of Defense, has announced that a Serbian mission to NATO at its headquarters in Brussels will be officially opened by the beginning of June.

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• 23 March

  Merkel says EU summit should not focus on Greece

  Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday (March 21st) that she does not believe Greece’s financial crisis should be the focus of the EU summit that starts Thursday in Brussels.  Merkel said Greece faces no

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• 23 March

  EP to hear report on Albania in April

  Rapporteur for Albania Tanja Fajon said the European Parliament (EP) will be briefed on Tirana’s EU visa liberalisation process next month. As for the political stalemate that has slowed EU-related reforms, Fajon urged the ruling Democratic Party and the opposition Socialist Party on Sunday (March 21st) to stop damaging Albania’s …

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• 22 March

  Moldova gives up status of permanent neutrality

  The draft constitution worked out by a committee headed by acting Moldovan President Mihai Ghimpu does not envisage preservation of the status of permanent neutrality. The draft constitution reads that Moldova’s neutrality is no longer permanent, as the Constitution currently in force states. Article 16 of the draft constitution suggests …

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