Eurasia Press & News

ROMANIA Fostul subsecretar de stat în MAE afirmă că despre un parcurs normal de aderare a Chişinăului la spaţiul comunitar s-ar putea vorbi, cel mai devreme, peste 20 de ani. Este România pregătită să-şi regândească relaţia cu Rusia? Dar Moscova este interesată de o dezgheţare a legăturilor cu Bucureştiul? În …

„Parlamentele multor state… consideră înţelegerea încheiată la 23 august 1939, între Guvernul URSS şi Guvernul Germaniei, ca nulă ab initio şi cer lichidarea consecinţelor politico-juridice ale acesteia” (Declaraţia de Independenţă, 27 august 1991) De câte ori a fost condamnat Pactul Ribbentrop-Molotov? De multe ori. Şi în multe locuri. De fiecare …

MOLDOVA None of the three main positions in the state will be ceded to the Communists. They will be held by the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), the Liberal Party (PL) and the Democratic Party (PDM). The statements were made by the PL leader Mihai Ghimpu. “The Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) …

RUSSIA Moldova’s president Vladimir Voronin discussed regional problems and methods of overcoming the economic crisis with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev at a bilateral meeting in Sochi on Friday. “Regardless of the political seasons in Russia or in Moldova, our relations are an important factor that unites our countries,” the …

BELGRADE The government has appointed Branislav Milinković as Serbia’s ambassador to NATO. The Belgrade newspaper explains that this was done on Monday, and that Milinković has been Serbia’s special envoy to the western military alliance since 2004. Milinković was sent to Brussels five years ago as representative of the then …

PRISTINA EULEX chief Yves de Kermabon says a protocol between the EU mission and Serbia’s MUP is not related to the so-called six point plan. He met in Priština yesterday with the Kosovo Albanian leaders, President Fatmir Sejdiu and PM Hashim Thaci, to discuss the signing of the police cooperation …

TURKEY Turkey has begun restoring names of Kurdish villages and is considering allowing religious sermons to be made in Kurdish as part of reforms to answer the grievances of the ethnic minority and advance its EU candidacy. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said his government will push democratic reforms to …

SERBIA, ALBANIA Belgrade-Tirana relations can sharpen after Sali Berisha’s statement about national unity of Albanians in the mother land and Kosovo, representative of the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija in the Serbian government Oliver Ivanovic said. Tirana’s official response to Belgrade’s protest note about “cooperation between Republic of Albania and …

BULGARIA The Belene nuclear power project is not vital for Bulgaria’s energy security, Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said. In an interview with bTV, he downplayed speculation that the country must bring the proposed station onstream if it is to guarantee supplies by 2020. If it builds capacity at the coal-fired …

BULGARIA Deputy Minister of Finance Anna Mihaylova said that entering the Eurozone was a priority for the cabinet. However, she highlighted that in first place Bulgaria should work fast in order to enter the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II). ‘The support of the other EU member states, of the EU, …