Eurasia Press & News

The EU mediator in the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, Robert Cooper, will visit Serbia next week. The dialog with Pristina, which ceased after seven Serbs

The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik has said Serbia’s response to the situation in North Kosovo should be much more vigorous. According to him Belgrade should insist on the separation of Kosovo’s northern region and its accession to Serbia.

Bulgaria is an important partner of Georgia and is seen as the shortest way the country can reach the EU, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has declared after meeting with Bulgaria’s PM Boyko Borisov. “Our two countries are very much alike – we have gone through

Macedonia will enter the European Union before Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday, congratulating Skopje in advance during his visit to the Balkan country. “On the EU process, I believe Macedonia will enter the EU before Turkey. The process continues at a fast pace. We are a …

Serbia should return to the negotiating table as soon as possible and focus on its priorities, European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur Jelko Kacin has stated. He added that Serbia’s priorities are not entirely clear now when the EU candidate status is within reach.

Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia met in Warsaw Thursday. Successful development of bilateral relations was underlined at the meeting. The sides expressed confidence Azerbaijan-Georgia cooperation would continue to expand in a variety of fields.

Greek prime minister George Papandreou plans to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris Friday for talks on Greece’s financial crisis. Their meeting comes as auditors from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Union are in

The European Commission is not going to issue an official statement or comment on tensions in Bulgaria because this is an internal problem for the country and the responsibility of its cabinet. The information was reported Thursday by Bulgaria’s EU Commissioner

The inability of political leaders to reach consensus on key reforms within in Albania is delaying the country’s progress towards European Union candidacy, a report published by the Open Society Foundation in Albania, OSFA, has shown.

Minority groups in Serbia are preparing to boycott the country’s census due to disagreements over the ethnicity of data collectors and the language the census forms have been written in. Ethnic Albanians in South Serbia and Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) from the southwestern region