Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen will be in Belgrade this Wednesday for meetings with President Boris Tadić and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić. Ahead of his trip to Serbia, Verhagen said that he would tell Serbia’s president and government that the Netherlands was convinced Serbia had a European future and that …

Serbian President Boris Tadić says that Serbia would apply for EU candidacy when it was sure of a positive outcome. Serbia’s move would come when the nations of Europe were ready to welcome its candidacy with “open arms”, he told a conference held at the Serbian parliament, called “The EU …

Romania and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, on Tuesday reached an agreement on a draft budget for 2010, one of the main sticking points for the further disbursement of IMF-led funds. Speaking after meeting Romanian interim Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea, IMF representative Jeffrey Franks said the next challenge is to …