Eurasia Press & News

Romania and Bulgaria want to build two new hydroelectric power plants together, Romanian deputy economy minister Tudor Serban said. A cooperation memorandum for the project will be signed “within a month”, he added.

Bulgaria has been named as among the 30 countries that have requested to take part in public hearings at the International Court of Justice on the question of Kosovo’s independence. Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008, a move rejected as illegal by Belgrade and its allies. The …

Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan said Monday he would visit Turkey to attend a football match this week between the two neighbors who have signed a peace accord after a century of hostility. Sarksyan said he had accepted an invitation by his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gul, to watch Turkey play Armenia …

President Boris Tadic will spend Monday and Tuesday on an official visit to Hungary. There, he will meet with the country’s top officials and ethnic Serb community representatives. Tadic will hold meetings in Budapest with his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Solyom, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai and Speaker of the Parliament Bela …

A meeting between new Greek Premier George Papandreou and Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki may signal a thaw in relations. The two officials met briefly on Friday afternoon on the sidelines of an informal meeting of the Southeast European Cooperation Process in Istanbul. “I [hope] we have better cooperation in …

Kosovo’s judicial watchdog has suspended a judge after he revealed details of private deliberations in the trial of three former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA. The Kovovo Judicial Council’s, KJC, disciplinary committee has suspended Rrahman Retkoceri without pay after reviewing his public statements regarding the controversial Llapi Group …

The new head of the European Commission, EC, delegation in Serbia, Vincent Degert, says the EU-Serbia Interim Trade Agreement may be unblocked this year. The deal is part of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, SAA, signed last spring and immediately suspended due to the Netherlands’ strong opposition. The Dutch are …

Albania’s opposition Socialist Party staged a rally in Tirana on Saturday, calling for a recount of the ballots from the June 28 parliamentary elections. The rally was attended by several thousand party supporters and was also backed by several minor opposition parties and various civil society groups. Socialist leader Edi …

Serbia’s Justice Ministry has announced that the Constitutional Court will be relocated from Belgrade to the town of Sremski Karlovci in 2010. In an interview with Tanjug news agency, the ministry’s state secretary, Slobodan Homen, explained that the decision comes as part of a wider effort to decentralise the state …

A Kosovo Albanian judge who voted against a decision to send three former so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) members to jail has been suspended. Rahman Ratkoceri stated that he was against the decision to find the three suspects guilty of committing war crimes.