September, 2011

• 30 September

  Greece, France to discuss Greek crisis

  Greek prime minister George Papandreou plans to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris Friday for talks on Greece’s financial crisis. Their meeting comes as auditors from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Union are in

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• 30 September

  EC won’t issue an official statement on tensions in Bulgaria

  The European Commission is not going to issue an official statement or comment on tensions in Bulgaria because this is an internal problem for the country and the responsibility of its cabinet. The information was reported Thursday by Bulgaria’s EU Commissioner

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• 30 September

  Albanian EU progress is very slow, shows report

  The inability of political leaders to reach consensus on key reforms within in Albania is delaying the country’s progress towards European Union candidacy, a report published by the Open Society Foundation in Albania, OSFA, has shown.

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• 30 September

  Albanians and bosniaks from Serbia to boycott census

  Minority groups in Serbia are preparing to boycott the country’s census due to disagreements over the ethnicity of data collectors and the language the census forms have been written in. Ethnic Albanians in South Serbia and Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) from the southwestern region

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• 28 September

  OSCE will watch Bulgarian elections

  The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE, will monitor the October 23 local and presidential elections in Bulgaria. ODHIR has opened in Sofia on Tuesday a Limited Mission for Election Assessment, Vadim Zhdanovich, Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Assessment …

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• 28 September

  EULEX will investigate Jarinje incident

  EULEX Spokesman Nicholas Hawton said on Wednesday that a EULEX prosecutor would investigate the Tuesday events at the Jarinje checkpoint. “EULEX is assessing the circumstance of the violence with the view to launch an investigation into what happened,” Hawton said, adding that the

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• 28 September

  Montenegro expects good report from EU regarding accession

  Montenegro expects to get a positive opinion from the EU regarding fulfillment of conditions for the EU accession in October. EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will bring the good news to Podgorica on October 13. A day after the European Commission publishes opinion about fulfillment of conditions for Montenegro’s European …

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• 28 September

  US official for Eurasian Affairs arrives in South Caucasus

  The Director of the Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Justin Friedman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Eric S. Rubin will travel to Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

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• 28 September

  The Netherlands will withdraw peacekeeping mission from Bosnia by the end of October

  The last Dutch peacekeepers in Bosnia will leave next month after a two-decade mission overshadowed by the massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. “We are ending the mission at the end of October when the largest part of our troops return home, except for …

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• 28 September

  Belgrade-Pristina discussion delayed in Brussels

  An EU-mediated dialogue process scheduled to take place between representatives of Serbia and Kosovo in Brussels has been postponed after the Serbian delegation demanded a change in the discussion agenda. The seventh round of Belgrade-Pristina talks was due to take place today, covering the subjects of energy, telecommunications and Kosovo’s …

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