Eurasia Press & News

Finland supports granting a date for Macedonia’s start of membership talks at the EU summit on Decembers 7, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said after meeting his visiting Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski Thursday in Helsinki. While the country will urge other EU members to do the same, the ongoing name …

Recent dialogue between Skopje and Athens has been beneficial but has so far failed to produde any significant breaktrough in the bilateral name row, Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki said Wednesday. He said that the Greek position remains the same, that without Macedonia changing its name Greece will prevent the …

In a late evening press conference on Wednesday Prime Minister Sali Berisha presented a series of documents on what he called “the most dangerous mafia clan in the Balkans”, referring to the Albanian opposition. In what is the latest chapter in the on-going battle between Berisha’s government and Albania’s Socialist …

EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that countries of the Western Balkans are one of her main priorities. The newly appointed EU’s foreign policy chief announced that she will try to achieve “agreement” among EU member states in the European Parliament. One of Ashton’s main concerns is human rights.

Dogovor o imenovanjima pomoći će uspješnijem radu Vijeća ministara BiH i stoga treba biti postignut u što skorijem roku, kaže Sadik Ahmetović, novoimenovani ministar sigurnosti BiH i zamjenik predsjedavajućeg Vijeća ministara BiH. Nije mogao govoriti o stanju u sigurnosnim agencijama s obzirom na to da je tek u ponedjeljak preuzeo …

SAD nisu pripremile novi paket ustavnih promjena u BiH koji bi domaćim liderima bio ponuđen po principu uzmi ili ostavi.Potvrdili su to predstavnici domaćih političkih stranaka koji su jučer poslijepodne i sinoć na odvojenim sastancima razgovarali s Džejmsom Stajnbergom, zamjenikom američkog državnog sekretara, koji boravi u dvodnevnoj posjeti BiH. “Imao …

Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marovic said that there are no obstacles for Montenegro to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo. Marovic said that Serbia should not be angry to Montenegro due to Podgorica’s decision and ongoing preparations for opening its consular department in Pristina. When asked whether Montenegro would withdraw …

Former member of Bosnian Presidency Jozo Krizanovic died in Zagreb on Wednesday following surgery, his party said. Krizanovic, who was member of the opposition Social Democratic Party, was 63.

Macedonia’s name dispute with Greece has to be solved once and for all and now is a good time to do so, the chief of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso told journalists in Brussels, following his meeting with Macedonia’s Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. He noted that the European Commission’s …

The main opposition party in Greece has elected a former foreign minister and party rebel as its new leader, causing both concern and hope in neighboring Turkey. While giving a tacit support to Turkey’s EU membership bid, Antonis Samaras is also expected to purse hard-line foreign policy. The unexpected result …