December 8, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie held talks on Thursday with his Bulgarian counterpart Anyu Angelov. China and Bulgaria have witnessed frequent all-level exchanges and fruitful cooperation in
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December 8, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
After Croat parties say they offered major concessions to help form a state government, Social Democrat leader says demands to form Croat entity have worsened the political climate. Croat and Bosniak [Muslim] parties in Bosnia have accused one another of blocking the formation of a state government 14 months after …
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December 8, 2011 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
Opposition and government point fingers after the EU Council of Ministers on Tuesday said Albania had made little progress towards membership. Albania’s government has blamed the Socialist-led opposition
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December 7, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Montenegrins hope they will get a date for a start to EU membership talks at the EU leaders’ summit on December 9. “We hope the European Council will follow the recommendation of the European
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December 7, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Greece has not received an official notice from Sofia about its decision to give up on the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project, said Greek Foreign Ministry spokesperson Grigoris Delavekouras.
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December 7, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Berlin appears to be softened its position on Serbia’s EU candidacy. However, Germany still expects progress in the talks between Belgrade and Pristina. It is possible for Berlin to back giving Serbia’s a status of EU member state candidate. One of the conditions for this to happen is lifting the …
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December 7, 2011 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News, Turkey
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Vilnius held bilateral meetings with the British and Georgian foreign ministers. The meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague discussed the current state
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December 7, 2011 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
Kazakhstan and Georgia are very interested in bilateral economic cooperation, Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri said on Wednesday following a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Karim
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December 7, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Bulgaria’s Finance Minister says his country is pulling out of a pipeline deal to carry Russian oil through his country to Greece. Simeon Dyankov said Wednesday, December 6, the government has
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December 7, 2011 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
Albania will only be able to move forward towards EU membership when it starts showing more progress on its reform agenda, the Council of Ministers underlined on Tuesday. “Albania has made limited progress in meeting the political criteria for membership
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