Eurasia

If the government of the former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has been loyal ad honest then the European Union should immediately return the blocked money. This is what leader of Order, Law and Justice (OLJ) Yane Yanev said at a briefing in the Parliament.

Greek government will table December in the Parliament the final draft bill on Burgas–Alexandroupoli pipeline. Despite the expressed reserves over the benefits of the agreement and the complicated problems on environment, which the passing of the pipeline through Greek territory could bring, it seems that at practice the last stage …

A meeting of the Russia-NATO council at the level of ambassadors will be held on Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Russia’s mission to the alliance has said.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will arrive on a two-day official visit in Podgorica, today. The Montenegrin nomination for entering the NATO Membership Action Plan is expected to be discussed in Brussels on December 3-4.

Serbian paramilitary commanders, Milorad Ulemek and Zvezdan Jovanovic have each been sentenced to 40-years in prison for assassinating the country’s Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, after the Supreme Court rejected all of the defense’s appeals. Ulemek is sentenced to 40 years in jail for joining a criminal enterprise and for unconstitutional …

Bulgaria’s Nationalist VMRO party claims bilingual inscriptions on the countyr’s international passports are a sign of low self-esteem and colonial mentality. 

Bosnian leaders are pondering a revised package of constitutional changes offered to them by European Union and US negotiators, in their latest attempt to help end country’s political deadlock. The Western negotiating team met Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Croat leaders in Sarajevo on Tuesday, and is meeting Bosnian Serb officials …

Reaffirming its commitment to enlargement, the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has called for the immediate implementation of an interim trade agreement between Serbia and the EU. “The (EU) Council should ratify the Interim Agreement without delay,” says a draft resolution of the Foreign Affairs Committee, citing the fact that …

The Socialists and the Liberals, who finished behind ruling President Traian Basescu after the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, agreed to form a coalition yesterday (23 November) with the aim of outperforming the incumbent in the 6 December run-off. Crin Antonescu, leader of the liberal PNL party which …

Uporne opstrukcije koje dolaze od nekih političara iz reda srpskog naroda doprinijele su odgađanju provedbe ključnih reformi, naveo je Valentin Incko, visoki predstavnik, u izvještaju o stanju u BiH koji je jučer podnio Vijeću sigurnosti UN-a. Predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH Nikola Špirić u svom obraćanju kazao je kako RS može …