Eurasia

A mission of the International Monetary Fund will visit Romania starting July 26 to review reforms and discuss the 2011 budget, the IMF representative in Bucharest Tonny Lybeck said Monday. “The IMF review mission will evaluate Romania’s recent economic performance and discuss with the authorities the economic objectives for the

Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić will confer with his Romanian counterpart Vasile Blaga in Bucharest on Tuesday. Dačić will also visit the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) regional center for combating trans-border crime, the Serbian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Slovenian President Danilo Turk will meet his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic at a meeting of Slovenian and Croatian business executives in Croatia’s Buzet on Tuesday. This is to be the first meeting between the two presidents, after the citizens of Slovenia voted in favor of the arbitrage border deal. Presidents …

Following a deterioration in the situation in the north of Kosovo, the UN Security Council is set to take up the matter at its meeting today. Serbian President Boris Tadic and the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo Lamberto Zannier are planning to attend the session in New York, …

Vijeće ministara BiH dom je za pravu malu vojsku savjetnika angažiranih u uredima predsjedavajućeg i devet državnih ministara. Predsjedavajući i ministri savjetnike biraju po vlastitom nahođenju. Savjetnici ne prolaze nikakve konkursne procedure, ali imaju identična prava kao i ostali državni službenici. Koeficijenti za obračun njihovih plaća su, primjerice, nekoliko puta …

SARAJEVO Dio sigurnosnih agencija u BiH skriva informacije o terorističkim aktivnostima u zemlji i umjesto da saopće imena osoba povezanih s terorizmom, oni objavljuju podatke o policajcima koji su, nakon napada na Policijsku stanicu u Bugojnu, hvatali osumnjičene. Izjavio je ovo Drago Kalabić, član Komisije za odbranu i sigurnost parlamenta …

Bulgarian Defence Minister Anyu Angelov said on Saturday (July 3rd) that Bulgaria is ready to join the US anti-missile defence shield in Europe. “It was important for us to talk to our American partners about how Bulgaria can contribute to the setting up of a missile defence in Europe. In …

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday urged Turkey to make a step forward in its ties with Armenia and open the common border between the two countries. “We urge both sides continue to try to find the opportunities

Macedonia — Representatives of several NGOs from the region presented an initiative on Saturday (July 3rd) in Skopje to establish a regional commission for truth-seeking and

The Bulgarian Culture Minister, Vezhdi Rashidov, and his Kosovo counterpart, Lutfi Haziri, have met to discuss possibilities for future cooperation in the culture sphere. “Until now, Bulgaria and Kosovo have not signed a treaty for bilateral cooperation in the culture sphere. Both countries could help each other in the field …