The South Caucasus republic of Georgia has taken Russia to court over the brief war the two countries fought in August 2008. Georgia on Thursday lodged a case against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights, accusing Russian

Bulgaria will try to persuade the Netherlands and Finland to change their opposition to Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to the Schengen visa zone, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) on September 22 2011.

The European Union warned Bosnia on Thursday it could lose almost 100 million euros (135 million dollars) of the bloc’s funds for 2011 due to internal political disputes and gave it a few days to agree over the issue. EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele “regrets that Bosnia-Hercegovina is the