March 28, 2012 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Bosnia hopes to formally join Nato’s membership action plan during its May summit, a penultimate step to joining the alliance. Bosnian Defence Minister Muhamed Ibrahimovic said “We hope that during the Chicago summit, Bosnia-Hercegovina will join the membership action plan and that in September it will launch its first annual …
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March 28, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Montenegro
The EU started Informal discussions in Brussels with Montenegro and the introduction of EU laws to the Montenegrin negotiators. The meeting’s purpose is to familiarize Montenegrins with EU judiciary
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March 27, 2012 Eurasia News, Romania News
The newly elected President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti said on TV recently that he speaks Romanian and not Moldovan. “I speak in Romanian. I am not a jurist and thus I call a spade a spade. The Constitution reads that national language is Moldovan. But the Academy of Science says …
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March 27, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The Cabinet of Serbian President Boris Tadic dismissed the rumors spread from media in Kosovo that Tadici will meet Hashim Thaci. Tadic’s cabinet rejected the possibilities for a meeting between the two.
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March 27, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
On Monday night, the head of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), Aleka Papariga, said on a local TV station that Greece needs to leave both the Eurozone and the European Union. Papariga said that “developments in Greece will change the dynamic of our ties abroad,” stressing that the country would …
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March 27, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Belgium has ratified the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between Serbia and the EU. The SAA is the framework for contractual relations between the EU and countries of the Western Balkans. The ratification was completed on March 20. Romania and Lithuania are the only EU members of the 27 which …
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March 27, 2012 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Bakir Izetbegović said the country can become an EU member in 8 to 10 years. He said the prediction is a realistic time-frame. “It is realistic if we act responsibly, if we do not keep making delays of several years which have put us last …
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March 27, 2012 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News, Romania News
Chairman of the Senate of the Kazakh Parliament Kairat Mami met with Chairman of the Moldovan Parliament Marian Lupu at CIS Interparliamentary Assembly’s Council in Almaty on Monday. During the talks the two highlighted the interest
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March 27, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Romania News
Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu said there is no territorial dispute with Bulgaria. He stressed that Romania only wants the Black Sea area in
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March 27, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Romania News
Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Tuesday that it supports Bulgaria’s entry into Schengen, adding that the problem will be solved soon, despite opposition from other EU members. “The Czech Republic fully supports Bulgaria’s Schengen accession. I believe that this issue will be resolved very soon,” Klaus said. The EU …
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