Eurasia Press & News

The European Commission on Wednesday concluded Romania is not yet prepared to join the euro area, citing a series of legal incompatibilities along the mandatory criteria for adopting the European common currency. In its 2010 convergence report, the Commission said Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden …

EU Special Representative for South Caucasus Peter Semneby, who is on visit to Tbilisi, met with Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze. The sides discussed priority directions of the Georgia-EU cooperation, the ministry said.

Hague Chief Serge Brammertz had a meeting with President of the Serbian National Council for Cooperation Rasim Ljajić on Thursday. Brammertz will also confer with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković and War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević later in the day.

About 200 Romanian unionists are protesting Thursday outside the presidential palace in Bucharest and call on the president and government to resign because of the austerity plan authorities announced. About 300 other unionists are picketing the Government headquarters.

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha will visit Macedonia later this month, Albanian media quote government sources as saying. During the stay in Skopje, Berisha is expected to reiterate Albania’s support to peace and stability in Macedonia. The same sources said Albanian prime minister and his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski are …

Georgia, Azerbaijan and Romania have signed an agreement on the establishment of a joint venture (JV) on the project of a new way of transporting Azerbaijani gas to Europe yesterday. Tbilisi hosted a ministerial on the implementation of the Georgian-Azerbaijani-Romanian project on the transportation of Azerbaijani liquefied natural gas to …

The European Commission is expected to announce on Wednesday whether it will target Bulgaria with an excessive deficit procedure for exceeding the ceiling of 3% of GDP as it issues its report on euro hopefuls. The Commission will say whether Bulgaria, Denmark, Luxembourg and Finland are in breach of the …

Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik told High Representative Valentin Inzko on Tuesday (May 11th) that his entity is willing to resolve state and military property issues but others are not. At a meeting in Banja Luka, Dodik also said that while RS is ready to comply with December’s …

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said that he believes the trial of Dragan Vasiljkovic, who was arrested in Australia yesterday, will be fair. “I do believe that today in Croatia everybody can expect a fair trial. As in any legal system, we have all that is needed to monitor the quality …

Croatia’s Justice Minister Ivan Simonovic is optimistic that Croatia will open the judiciary chapter of its EU accession negotiations in June, and will be able to wrap up talks by the end of the year. In an interview with Europolitics Tuesday (May 11th), Simonovic said that