Three ex-Soviet states were Friday to agree the first steps towards creating a Eurasian economic union, a project backed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to bind closer the former USSR.

An official Armenian delegation led by PM Tigran Sargsyan will head to Batumi, Georgia, on Friday, for a two-day working visit. In Batumi, the delegation will attend 9th Session of the Armenian-Georgian Inter-Governmental Joint Committee. Along the lines of the visit, Tigran Sargsyan will also meet with Georgia’s PM, Nika …

The EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule on Thursday welcomed the apparent end of a two-year political stalemate in Albania, after parliament approved two laws that required cross-party consensus.