Depending on who you listen to, Roumyana Zheleva, Bulgaria’s nominee to the new European Commission is set either for a high post or humiliation when EC President Jose Barroso unveils his line-up. The names of all candidate commissioners have been confirmed officially, but negotiations and meetings about portfolios were continuing …

Serbia will apply for EU candidacy after the Interim Trade Agreement (ITA) has been unfrozen, says President Boris Tadić. Speaking in Belgrade on Thursday, he added that “time for candidacy is right when it is clear that we will get a positive answer from the EU”. “Our wish is to …

The European parliament (EP) members on Thursday in Strasbourg adopted a resolution on the EU’s enlargement strategy. The document, drafted by the EP Foreign Affairs Committee, asks the Council of the European Union to ratify without any further delay the Interim Trade Agreement with Serbia.