Eurasia

A meeting of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) foreign ministers took place in Thessaloniki on Friday (November 26th). Participants adopted a joint declaration on fighting climate change in the Black Sea region that will be submitted to the UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico next month. Romania takes over …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his visiting Croatian counterpart Jadranka Kosor agreed on Friday (November 26th) in Ankara that there are no open political issues between their countries and vowed to boost economic ties. Erdogan said he expects the Turkish-Croatian trade volume to rise to 1 billion euros …

Moldovans were on track to elect a new parliament Sunday afternoon, as voter turnout already exceeded the two-thirds required for a valid vote, dpa reported. The poll is the third parliamentary election in less than two years. The two previous legislatures were unable to muster the supermajority necessary to elect …

Moldova votes on Sunday in its third parliamentary polls in one and a half years, seeking to end a political crisis that risks ruining hopes of prosperity and EU integration. Moldova has been without a full-time president for a year as the liberal coalition which ruled the ex-Soviet state since

Slovenia has denied claims seen in Croatian media that it is blocking Croatia’s efforts to enter the EU. Instead, official Ljubaljana said, they were only protecting their own interests. Milan Balažic, the spokesperson to the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Slovenia only wished to protect, within

NATO is interested in the resolution of conflicts in the South Caucasus region, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons said at the discussions held with the Azerbaijani, Georgian and Armenian public members at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

The United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon has once more expressed his disappointment at the “frustratingly slow” pace of Cyprus peace talks and urged Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders to make real progress by early next year. The UN chief pointed out in a progress report released on Thursday that …

Representatives of Montenegro and Bulgaria signed an agreement for the mutual protection and exchange of classified information at a meeting in Podgorica on Wednesday. The deal aims to secure the mutual protection of classified information, including measures for the protection of classified information, the transfer of these type of documents, …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Turkey to open its ports and airports to traffic from European Union member Greek Cyprus, emphasizing that a dispute between the EU and candidate Turkey blocks Ankara’s path for membership.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that Croatia is in the final stage of its EU integration process but urged more reforms to achieve the membership goal. After meeting President Ivo Josipovic on Thursday (November 25th) in Zagreb, Fuele pointed out that a lot has been done in the past …