Eurasia

Today, the European Union and Georgia signed a visa facilitation agreement with Georgia, opening the way for easier travel and people-to-people contact across Europe. The signature of the readmission agreement negotiated between the European Union and Georgia in parallel will be organised very soon.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele urged the bloc on Tuesday (June 15th) to take further steps regarding Serbia’s bid. Belgrade submitted its formal EU membership application in late December. The European Commission (EC) is now awaiting a formal request from the Council of the EU to begin assessing the candidacy.

Romania’s centrist coalition government on Tuesday survived a no-confidence vote in parliament that was raised by the opposition over plans to adopt drastic measures to cut spending.

Relations between Bulgaria and Russia are excellent, based on extensive mutual co-operation, and not exclusively on one particular energy project, according to Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov, speaking after his regular Cabinet meeting on June 16 2010.

The European Commission initiated a procedure for excessive budget deficit against Cyprus, Finland, and Denmark. This makes Luxembourg the only eurozone country without a procedure for excessive budget deficit against it. The EU financial ministers will have a summit on July 13, when they will decide the austerity measures, which …

Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski will leave for Brussels on a two-day official visit. Gruevski will have meetings with European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Füle and leaders of the European People’s Party. It is possible that Gruevski to meet his Greek counterpart – Georgios Papandreou, who is also in Brussels. The …

SARAJEVO Institucije BiH do utorka nisu zvanično obaviještene o hapšenju bh. državljanina Mirsada Salkića u Srbiji, zbog čega je istog dana Ministarstvu spoljnih poslova Srbije upućena protestna nota iz Ambasade BiH u Beogradu. Salkić je uhapšen u subotu na osnovu potjernice nekadašnjeg Vojnog tužilaštva Srbije, koje ga tereti za krađu …

The EU will almost certainly not extend a start date for Macedonia’s accession talks at tomorrow’s European Council summit in Brussels, thus effectively putting the country’s EU bid on hold until it solves the name row with Greece.

On 14 June, the European Union reiterated its readiness to facilitate people-to-people contacts with the citizens of the South Caucasus countries, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, through visa facilitation and at the later stage visa-free agreements.

Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic has announced that the time has come for Croatia and Serbia to discuss the possibility for citizens of the two countries to cross their common border with a national identity card. Speaking at a meeting with representatives of the Croatian Parliament on Monday, Dacic said …