Eurasia Press & News

French European Affairs Minister Jean Leonetti says Serbia will certainly become a full-fledged member of the EU and that its membership is not questionable. Pointing out that Serbia has already made significant progress on its EU pathway, the French minister said that “much more effort needs to be made in …

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) adopted late Thursday a resolution on the political situation in the Balkans. “The PACE urged all the countries of the region to work towards reconciliation and enhancement of dialogue”, head of the Serbian

A delegation of the International Monetary Fund will visit Romania between October 25 and November 7 for the third review of a EUR3.5 billion precautionary agreement signed end March. “The mission will meet with the authorities, as well as with representatives of political parties, unions, business

Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović said Friday he and EU facilitator Robert Cooper agreed that the dialogue needed to continue as soon as possible. He added and that an independent investigation into the incidents at the Jarinje administrative crossing was necessary.

French leader Nicholas Sarkozy visited Armenia and called on Turkey to recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians as genocide, hopefully during his tenure as president. “If a big country like Turkey accepts the dark pages of its history…. Armenia and France will see it as a real step forward,” Sarkozy …

The Croatian government in Zagreb on did not back down from the draft law on the annulment of indictments issued in Serbia. Jadranka Kosor’s cabinet even proposed a declaration alongside this regulation claiming that

Kairgeldy Kabyldin, president of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas company KazMunaiGas discussed increasing Kazakh energy exports to Europe with Bulgarian Energy Minister Traycho Traykov during the latter’s visit to the Kazakh capital Astana.

Serbian President Boris Tadić has stated that “at this moment South-East European countries have no other choice but to continue with their EU integration”. Speaking in the town of Aranđelovac in central Serbia on Thursday, he noted that in that process, they have to at the same time rely on …

Romania resolutely supports the EU and NATO integration of Macedonia, stated Romanian President Traian Basescu after meeting Macedonian counterpart George Ivanov in Bucharest. Ivanov is on a two-day official visit to Romania in a bid

Turkish Cyprus’s main opposition Republican Turks’ Party (CTP) said they rejected the continental shelf agreement between Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot government. The statement from the CTP said the Cyprus issue was at a critical stage and a road map would be