March 2, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The EC will recommend a date for the start of Serbia’s accession talks “as soon as it reaches agreements with Priština on energy and telecommunications”. This was heard from EU Enlargement
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March 2, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
A convoy of EULEX vehicles with cisterns and customs booths was stopped at about 11:00 CET in the village of Banov Do near Zvečan, in northern Kosovo. “The vehicles were stopped on a section of the
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March 2, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
European Union leaders have cleared the release of second bailout package for Greece by the end of the week. This is to enable Greece avoid a default on paying back €14.5 billion debts due on March 20. Finance ministers of the euro group, during a two-day
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March 2, 2012 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Bosnia’s war crimes prosecutors on Friday indicted five former members of a Croat paramilitary force for the torture of hundreds of Bosnian Serbs, most of them civilians, in the south of the country during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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March 2, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Romania News
Bulgaria and Romania will spend further months in the waiting room to join the European Union’s Schengen visa zone after the Netherlands continued to insist that the two countries have not made sufficient progress against organised crime and corruption.
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March 2, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
The governments of Bulgaria and Israel are going to hold a second joint sitting, the two countries’ Foreign Ministers Nikolay Mladenov and Avigdor Lieberman have made it clear. Mladenov explained in Sofia Friday that his meeting
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March 2, 2012 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News, Serbia
New Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija says European integration is more of a priority now that neighbouring Serbia has obtained candidate status. Serbia’s success this week in obtaining EU candidate status should encourage Bosnia to
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March 2, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
EU leaders and Serbian ministers hailed the decision to grant Serbia candidate status, though Serbia’s main opposition leader said the achievement would mean little if the country remained under the same government. President Boris Tadic congratulated Serbia on obtaining EU candidate status late on Thursday night.
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March 1, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Bulgaria is withdrawing its ambassador from Belarus a day after Minsk ordered the ambassadors of Poland and the EU to leave the country, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has announced. “After yesterday President Alexander Lukashenko kicked out
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March 1, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
A two-day summit of EU leaders will begin in Brussels on Thursday and the final decision on Serbia’s EU candidate status is expected to be made tonight. According to a schedule, the EU leaders should discuss whether to grant Serbia the
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