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Angela Merkel presents 3 preconditions for both Serbia and Kosovo EU integration

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during her visit to Serbia Tuesday there were three preconditions for Serbia’s European integration. She stressed that getting the candidate status depended on three points: implementing reforms in the country, meeting the

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Angela Merkel says Kosovo-Serbia Trade is achievable

A solution to the trade embargo that catalysed three weeks of tension on Kosovo’s northern border earlier this month is achievable, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. In the first visit to Serbia by a German Chancellor in eight years, Merkel met with Serbian president Boris Tadic behind closed doors …

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Serbs in north to stage protest over courts

Employees of the Serbian judiciary will stage a peaceful protest in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, it has been announced. The gathering comes in reaction to announcements by the Kosovo Albanian authorities in Priština authorities that “Kosovo judges and prosecutors would be reinstated in the District Court”.

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Serbia alarmed by new Kosovo recognitions

After mini-wave of recognitions of Kosovo’s independence, Belgrade plans a last stand at the forthcoming Non-Aligned Movement summit. Serbia plans to use September’s meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade to halt a new wave of recognitions of Kosovo, which Serbia insists is still a province of Serbia.

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Greek PM says early elections are not the right solution for the country’s problems

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said that he has no plans to call early elections and vowed to press ahead with the government’s reform agenda. Papandreou acknowledged that the reforms had provoked public discontent and would continue to do so, while acknowledging that the government had made

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