Eurasia Press & News

President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, has stated that a compromise solution will be found for Bulgaria and Romania’s entry to the Schengen zone in the next months. Buzek has stated that the two countries are obliged to fulfill the requirements for entering the Schengen zone.

The Greek parliament has ratified Serbia’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU, the Greek Embassy in Belgrade announced on Monday (January 31st). Greece is the 12th EU country to ratify the agreement. Germany is expected to ratify it in February and France by the end of April.

A former member of the Serbian paramilitary unit the Scorpions has been arrested near Grenoble on Monday (January 31st). Milorad Momic, 47, is suspected of killing Bosniaks in Srebrenica in 1995. Police say he has

Natasha Butler, spokesperson for EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele, urged Macedonian politicians Monday (January 31st) to resume dialogue to guarantee the normal functioning of parliament. She voiced the

Kosovo municipal courts have started to process cases dealing with alleged manipulations that occurred during the December snap general elections. The court in Gjakova has

UNMIK is ready to fully support a probe into the Kosovo organ trafficking, the latest report of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says. It also expresses the expectation that progress will soon be made towards opening the Belgrade-Priština dialogue which has not yet begun due to the toppling of the …

Georgian Parliament’s Deputy Speaker Rusudan Kervalishvili met with the NATO International Military Staff Lieutenant-General Jürgen Bornemann. The two sides stressed the importance of Georgia’s participation in the NATO peacekeeping mission, Kervalishvili said after the meeting.

Bosnian police arrested Sasa Baricanin on Tuesday on suspicion of war crimes committed against the non-Serb population in Sarajevo during the country’s 1992-95 war. Baricanin was arrested in Pale, some 25 kilometers southeast of Sarajevo, on an order from the State Prosecutor’s Office.

Albanian opposition leader Edi Rama on Tuesday called for fresh anti-government protests in the capital Tirana on Friday for the third week in succession. Rama said the marches in the Tirana and at least four other cities were to demonstrate “peaceful resistance” to the government. Rama on Tuesday reiterated a …

Romania and Bulgaria should enter the Schengen Agreeement together, Romania’s Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi has stated. “Romania can not enter Schengen without Bulgaria, since the two states are parts of one and the same