Montenegro is efficiently fulfilling its Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and is quickly moving towards accession, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn says. Speaking in Brussels on Sunday after a meeting with Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Rocen, Rehn said Montenegro has strengthened its administrative capacity, implemented legal reforms and …

The son of Franjo Tudjman, Croatia’s late wartime nationalist president, will run for the same post in 2010 elections, he said in a HINA news agency report Tuesday. Miroslav Tudjman, 62, would stand for president as an “independent candidate,” he was quoted as saying in a statement. “It’s a last …

The United States hailed Macedonia for holding violence-free elections but urged the country to keep up the effort for the run-off vote on April 5, local media report. Mary Ann Tyson, the Press Secretary at the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, told Voice of America’s Macedonian news …