January 11, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Marking the 19th anniversary of the autonomy of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, entity President Milorad Dodik took the opportunity to warn on national television that Bosnian Serbs would not allow any further decentralization, which is necessary for EU integration. He described Bosnia-Herzegovina as a ‘divided society’ that ‘is in …
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January 11, 2011 Balkan News, Croatia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian President Boris Tadić spoke with Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor about the case of Tihomir Purda. Tadić underlined during the discussion that “this and similar cases needed to be considered by the appropriate ministries and prosecutions in both
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January 11, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj is set to visit Azerbaijan on Jan.12-13. During the visit, he will meet with Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasizade, Economic
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January 11, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Romania News
Hungary’s foreign minister says his country will do everything possible to facilitate Bulgaria and Romania’s Schengen entry during its EU presidency. “We have a priority and that is Bulgaria and Romania’s
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January 11, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Turkey
Cypriot Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou said Sunday (January 9th) that Nicosia would never agree to Turkey’s EU accession before the Cypriot issue is resolved. “We not only do not
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January 11, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Greece cannot deal with the influx of illegal migrants entering the country through the border with Turkey on its own, the European border security agency FRONTEX said in a report
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January 11, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Republika Srpska (RS) celebrated Republic Day on Sunday (January 9th), marking 19 years of existence. Entity President Milorad Dodik remarked that RS was created as a result of the will of Serbs in BiH, but is open to all
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January 10, 2011 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
“We will either join the EU and NATO together or we will destroy the country together”, leader of the Democratic Union of Integration (DSI) Ali Ahmeti said. “The EU and NATO integration cannot be done separately. It is impossible for us, the Albanians, to join
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January 10, 2011 Eurasia News, Romania News
European commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom will pay a working visit to Chisinau on January 24 in connection with the granting to Moldova of the EU-Moldova Plan of Action for the
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January 10, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović says Belgrade is fully prepared to begin talks with Priština about the situation in Kosovo. He also criticized the Kosovo Albanian authorities for “doing nothing to get
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