September 23, 2010 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Valentin Inzko said on Tuesday (September 21st) that Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) could join the EU in 2020. Inzko, who was speaking to journalists at the European Parliament (EP), said much
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September 23, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met on Tuesday (September 21st) with Cypriot President Demetris Christofias, reiterating his support for ongoing talks to reunify the island. The meeting, held on the sidelines of a UN summit in New York, focused on progress in the talks. During a separate meeting with Turkish President …
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September 23, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Kosovo’s Integration Minister Besim Beqaj said on Tuesday (September 21st) that Pristina’s various institutions have fulfilled the criteria set by the European Commission (EC) for visa liberalisation. He told EU Enlargement
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September 22, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The EU has been mandated by the UN Secretary General to mediate in the dialog between Belgrade and Pristina, because this is a European issue, said Oliver Ivanovic, state secretary of the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo. “The stability of Europe and this part of the Balkans depends to a great …
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September 22, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Turkey
The ethic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) is going to file a complaint with the EC and PACE on the issue with the Chief Mufti in Bulgaria. A letter will be send to Viviane Reding, EC Vice-President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, and to …
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September 22, 2010 Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkey’s bid to join the European Union is becoming complicated by a number of factors, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told students at Columbia University in New York.
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September 22, 2010 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
A Kosovo Albanian government office in Priština says UN mission, UNMIK, “has turned into a real obstacle for improvement of the situation” in K. Mitrovica. The office that produced the report is in charge of implementing the so-called strategy for northern Kosovo.
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September 22, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the importance of dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo over the latter’s unilateral declaration of independence in 2008. In bilateral meetings with three European leaders on the margins of a three-day summit on
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September 22, 2010 Eurasia News
Ukraine and the European Union are not likely to sign the Association Agreement during the November 22 summit, the European Commission’s spokeswoman, Angela Filote said. She said that the parties had already agreed that they need another year to complete the agreement.
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September 22, 2010 Eurasia News, Romania News
Romania is to sign a new deal with the IMF in a bid to deal with its economic problems, Romanian President Traian Basescu has said. Basescu said at a parliamentary meeting on Tuesday he said the agreement will be signed next March after the current one expires.
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