Turkey’s membership will contribute to EU growth, Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bagis said on Tuesday during a conference in Ankara on an EU project for capacity building in governorates. Bagis said Turkey would make the EU cake bigger, rather than reducing in size the slices of other EU member countries.

European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule paid a visit to Belgrade on Monday. He said that: “Setting the date for the start of the EU accession talks for Serbia depends on the realisation of the

France on Monday condemned a Syrian air raid into Lebanon, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had seriously violated the sovereignty of neighboring Lebanon. “The air raid carried out by the armed forces of the Syrian regime in