March, 2010

• 4 March

  Ukraine parliament ousts Tymoshenko in vote

  The Ukraine parliament has ousted Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with a vote of no confidence. Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s recently elected president, now needs to form a working coalition to run the country.

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• 4 March

  “Serbia could join EU in 7, 8 years”: British Ambassador in Belgrade

  British Ambassador in Belgrade Stephen Wordsworth said that Serbia could join the EU in seven or eight years. This would come “if it focuses all of its efforts on European integration and removes all the obstacles in its path,” he said.

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• 4 March

  Serbian FM: Serbia will choose Kosovo over EU

  Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić said during his visit to Budapest today that to tie Serbia’s EU perspective to the problem of Kosovo would be “a tragic mistake”. “Anyone who thinks that Serbia, in case it had to choose between the European Union and Kosovo

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• 4 March

  EP President Predicts Bulgaria Will Join Eurozone in 3 Years

  Bulgaria will join the Schengen Area in the next year and the Eurozone – within 3 years, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek has predicted. Buzek was on his first official visit to Bulgaria for the country’s national holiday – March 3, Liberation Day.

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• 4 March

  Bosnia Ambassador to Serbia Gives Credentials to Serbia

  Bosnian Ambassador Borisa Arnaut submitted his credentials to the Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade on Wednesday. Addressing reporters for the first time upon his arrival in Serbia, Borisa said that his priorities will be developing good-neighbourly relations, eliminating differences and finding common interests between Serbia and Bosnia.

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• 4 March

  Karadzic calls Srebrenica massacre “a myth”

  Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says the mass killings of non-Serbs in Sarajevo and Srebrenica during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict are a “myth”, and denies any responsibility for them. During day two of his opening statement at the UN war crimes

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• 3 March

  Serbian Minister for Kosovo to meet with EULEX chief

  EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, Chief Yves de Kermabon will be meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday with Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović. The EULEX Chief will also meet with other Serbian legislative officials. Bogdanović said that the topics of discussion with de Kermabon will include everything that falls within the …

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• 3 March

  U.S ambassador to Georgia regards opening of Upper Lars checkpoint as positive step

  U.S. Ambassador to Georgia John Bass regards opening of the Upper Lars checkpoint on the Georgia-Russia border as a positive step. He said it is a positive step in relations between peoples and economic advancement of the inhabitants of the region.

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• 3 March

  Bulgaria celebrates its national holiday

  On 3 March 1878 Bulgaria regains its independence from the Ottoman Empire. On Wednesday the country celebrates the 132nd anniversary of its independence. Events will take place across the country.

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• 3 March

  Croatia to join South Stream pipeline project

  Russia and Croatia on Tuesday signed an agreement for Croatia to join South Stream, a Moscow- backed pipeline project rivaling the EU-sponsored Nabucco project, Russia informs. Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Croatian Economy, Labor and Entrepreneurship Minister Djuro Popijac signed the agreement in the presence of Russian and Croatian …

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