Eurasia Press & News

The next session within the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština has been postponed for the next week in Brussels. The agenda may be extended by introducing the issues of electricity and freedom of movement. The negotiating teams will continue to

Bosnia’s main Croatian parties say national assembly will be first response to formation of government in the Bosniak-Croat entity that they see as “illegal”. The Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, and its sister party HDZ 1990 have launched an initiative for the formation of a Croat national assembly for municipalities and

EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak will hold meetings with Albanian leaders on Wednesday in an effort to defuse tensions ahead of May 8 local elections. Lajcak is set to meet on Tuesday with Albania’s President Bamir Topi and Prime Minister Sali Berisha, as well as Socialist opposition leader Edi Rama. The …

Public hearings at The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) over an alleged Greek violation of a bilateral agreement between Skopje and Athens started on Monday (March 21st).  Macedonia presents its oral

Some progress concerning the opposition’s demands regarding early elections was made during a leaders’ meeting Sunday (March 20th). Attending were Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, leader of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE, his coalition partner Ali Ahmeti, leader of the Democratic Union for Integration, as well as the leader of the opposition SDSM …

Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edmond Haxhinasto says that Tirana and Pristina plan a joint agenda for the recognition of Kosovo’s independence. The foreign ministries are preparing a plan

Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov and the first lady Zorka Parvanova will pay a one-day working visit to Croatia at the invitation of Croatian President Ivo Josipovic and his wife Tatyana Josipovic. The two head of states will hold a private meeting in Zagreb. During his visit President Parvanov will meet …

There are century-old traditions in the relations between the peoples of Bulgaria and Croatia, but today they assume a new quality – the quality of NATO and EU allies, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said at a joint press conference with his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic. Bulgarian President and his Croatian counterpart …

The EU membership requirements are one package. Croatia is doing what Bulgaria did, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said at a joint press conference with his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic. He was asked about the rate of political lobbying for Croatia’s EU membership.

Greece’s government has not given up on its plans to erect a fence along the country’s border with Turkey in order to counter the influx of illegal immigrants, Christos Papoutsis, the Greek Minister for Citizen Protection said. The respective procedures for the realization of the project will soon be launched, …