Eurasia Press & News

Serbian Orthodox Church will choose new Patriarch on January 22 next year, church’s Holy Synod said. Serbian Orthodox Church didn’t give any details, but said that the new Patriarch has to be chosen by February 15 the latest.

Serbia’s Interior Ministry and police (MUP) have very good cooperation with the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). This is according to Interior Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dačić, who added in Geneva on Wednesday that Belgrade wants to improve it with the aim of …

EULEX has accused Judge Elez Hodzu from the District Court of Priština of taking bribes and he will be put on trial at the beginning of next year.

Russia will price its gas supplies to Ukraine in line with European levels at an average 280 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters in 2010, the Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Wednesday. “The average price for next year will be about 280 dollars, which is in line with European …

Enlarging the European Union to bring in further countries from South Eastern Europe will mean 100 million new EU citizens and will “not be a quick or simple process”, Carl Bildt, foreign minister of Sweden, told the European Parliament on November 25 2009.   Sweden currently holds the presidency of …

The Russian and Moldovan prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Vlad Filat, had a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze will visit France on Thursday, French Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday in a statement.

Socialists and Liberals have teamed up to oust Romania’s centre-right president in next month’s crucial run-off election vote. Social Democrat Mircea Geoana, who came second in the first round of Sunday’s presidential vote, has signed an agreement with the Liberal party, which came third.

The head of Macedonia’s junior governing party, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, Ali Ahmeti has expressed optimism about a possible solution to the on-going name row with Greece.

Bosnia’s top envoy Valentin Inzko met US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, on the second leg of a US tour in which he has highlighted the growing sence of urgency in Bosnia’s worsening political crisis.