Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Greek counterpart, Lucas Papademos, agreed this week on the importance of pursuing cooperation between Turkey and Greece. Speaking on

Serbian President Boris Tadić stated on Friday he could not say that Serbia would get the EU candidate status on December 9 but that it would fight for it. He noted that he was optimistic, but also aware of the dangers and risks of the entire process.

The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 5 will deliver its judgement in Macedonia’s case against Greece for breaching the 1995 Bilateral Interim Accord by blocking country’s accession to NATO at a summit in Bucharest in 2008.