Eurasia Press & News

Croatia will not be given a date for joining the EU at Monday’s (May 23rd) meeting of foreign ministers, European Commission (EC) spokesperson Natasha Butler said on Thursday. She added the EC needs more time to assess

Jose Manuel Barroso opted to cancel his planned visit to Tirana, due to political tensions stemming from the vote count in Tirana’s mayoral election. Barroso was scheduled to visit on Friday as part of a Balkan tour, to offer support to reforms that would help the country achieve benchmarks needed …

Turkish foreign ministry announced on May 18th that Turkey will seek a new term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. The country will target the 2015-2016 period, competing against Spain and New

Kosovo Parliament requested on May 19th that EULEX and state prosecutors speed up their efforts to indict those who committed massacres during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo. Lawmakers adopted a recommendation

Kosovo authorities requested on Thursday (May 19th) that European Commission representatives be more proactive on the issue of visa liberalisation. Kosovo has met all technical requirements, Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi said at a meeting of the working group on visa liberalisation with the EU.

Serbian President Boris Tadić and EC President Jose Manuel Barroso said that “recognition of Kosovo is not a condition” for the country’s EU integration. “There’s no criteria that says a country on its path to the EU needs to recognize independence of some other country or a part of its …

EC President Jose Manuel Barroso has warned Serbia that is needs to move fast with political, legal, and economic changes in order to catch the EU train. Barroso was in Belgrade Thursday where he stressed explicitly that Serbia needs to cooperate

Croatia will become a EU member state on July 1 2013, after having concluded the accession talks before this summer. Zagreb’s optimism is fueled by the expectation that EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele’s report to

Turkey and Romania agreed on Wednesday (May 18th) to ramp up co-operation in fighting terrorism and drug trafficking. Under the deal signed in Bucharest by

EU Representative to Macedonia Peter Sorensen said on Wednesday (May 18th) that the European Commission’s assessment of implementing the visa-liberalisation regime in the region will become clear in June. He was commenting on speculation that the visa-free regime could be suspended because of the influx of asylum applicants, mainly from …