March, 2012

• 19 March

  Greek Finance Minister resigns to take over PASOK

  Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos he is resigning to lead the PASOK to general elections. “We have elections ahead and I had this morning the opportunity in a farewell meeting at the finance ministry to give my last instructions,” Venizelos said after he met with Greek President Karolos Papoulias. The …

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• 19 March

  Croatia appoints first members for EU parliament

  Croatia has appointed its first Members of the European parliament, who will immediately have the right to participate in sessions but not to vote until Croatia joins the EU next July. The new Croatian MEPs were chosen on the basis of the last general election results held on December 4.

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• 19 March

  Skopje government is ready for EU talks, says the PM

  Skopje government is ready for high-level dialogue with the EU, since it has been waiting for the talks to start for a long time, said Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. “We are ready for this dialogue, as well as for the pre-accession talks, which was our goal. We hope that …

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• 19 March

  Catherine Ashton, Stefan Fule welcome President election in Moldova

  Catherine Ashton and Stefan Fule congratulates Moldova after electing new president: “We welcome the successful outcome of the presidential election in Chisinau, by which the members of the Moldovan Parliament have demonstrated their sense

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• 19 March

  Evangelos Venizelos elected new PASOK leader in Greece

  Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos was elected as the new leader of the socialist PASOK party on Sunday in internal elections, ahead of the early general polls due later this spring. Over 200,000 party members participated in the

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• 19 March

  Bulgaria to discuss gas pipeline with Turkey

  Bulgaria is seeking a deal with Turkey to construct a short pipeline connecting the countries’ domestic gas networks. The issue is expected to be discussed when

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• 19 March

  Serbian official says the country is ready for accession talks with EU

  Serbian government’s EU Integration Office head Milica Delević says that from the administrative and technical aspect Serbia is ready to start accession talks with the EU. She said Serbia has a foundation and an established mechanism for negotiating teams for the dialogue with the EU.

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• 16 March

  EC to press for final decision on Schengen in September

  The President of the European Commission (EC), Jose Manuel Barosso has said, after a meeting in Brussels with the Romanian Prime Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, Romania can count on the European Commission for a final decision on the country’s accession to Schengen to be made in September this year. “It is …

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• 16 March

  Moldova elects new President after 3 years

  Moldova’s parliament brought a three-year-long constitutional crisis to an end on Friday, March 16 by electing a former judge, Nicolae Timofti, as the country’s president. Timofti, who is 63, had been nominated by Moldova’s ruling pro-European coalition and

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• 16 March

  Armenian FM to visit Georgia tomorrow

  Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will visit Georgia on March 17. This announcement was released by the Armenian Press and Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Durign his visit to Tbilisi, Nalbandian is expected to meet with Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze and to discuss bilateral relations.

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