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Macedonia’s Coalition Leaders Reconcile

The Macedonian government looks set to survive after the leaders of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party and ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, met to settle their differences. VMRO-DPMNE leader Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and DUI head Ali Ahmeti met on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the turmoil caused by the …

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Calls Mount for Opposition to End Boycott

The heads of the European Commission and OSCE in Albania have both enjoined the country’s Socialist opposition party to end its parliamentary boycott. Speaking after a meeting with the minister of foreign affairs, Deputy Premier Ilir Meta, the head of the OSCE office in Tirana, Robert Bosch, said that his …

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Serbia and Slovenia Mull Cooperation

The presidents of Serbia and Slovenia, Boris Tadic and Danilo Turk, have underlined their countries’ warm relations and the importance of economic and cultural cooperation. Addressing Slovenian reporters after his parlay with Turk, Tadic said he expected Slovenia to continue supporting Serbia’s EU integration process, which is Belgrade’s main political …

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Hague prosecutor to visit Serbia in October

Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz is expected to visit Serbia in October, according to the President of Serbia’s Hague Cooperation Council Rasim Ljajić. The actions geared towards arrested the remaining Hague fugitives Goran Hadžić and Ratko Mladić are ingoing daily, Ljajić said, adding that Serbia is

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Russia’s South Stream is “bad for EU”

Russia’s South Stream natural gas pipeline is “weakening” rival EU-backed Nabucco, according to the European Parliament president. Jerzy Buzek also went on to say that “all bilateral deals with Russian gas exporters are threatening EU’s interests”.

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Turkey becomes hot topic in Greek elections

Relations with Turkey have become a hot topic amid Greek election campaigning with both the governing and opposition parties sharpening their anti-Turkish rhetoric as election day draws near. While supporting Turkey’s EU membership bid during his embattled premiership, New Democracy Party, or NDP, leader and Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has …

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Putin signs decree to build nuke plant in Kaliningrad region

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to build a 2,300MW Baltic nuclear power plant in the country’s westernmost Kaliningrad region. Under the document the first nuclear power generating unit will be built in 2010-2016, the second one – in 2012-2018. Russian and foreign investors will be engaged …

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