May, 2011

• 23 May

  Kosovo meets technical conditions for visa liberalisation, says Minister Bajram Rexhepi

  Kosovo authorities requested on Thursday (May 19th) that European Commission representatives be more proactive on the issue of visa liberalisation. Kosovo has met all technical requirements, Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi said at a meeting of the working group on visa liberalisation with the EU.

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• 20 May

  Kosovo recognition is not a condition for Serbia’s EU accession

  Serbian President Boris Tadić and EC President Jose Manuel Barroso said that “recognition of Kosovo is not a condition” for the country’s EU integration. “There’s no criteria that says a country on its path to the EU needs to recognize independence of some other country or a part of its …

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• 20 May

  EC President Barroso says 2011 is crucial for Serbia

  EC President Jose Manuel Barroso has warned Serbia that is needs to move fast with political, legal, and economic changes in order to catch the EU train. Barroso was in Belgrade Thursday where he stressed explicitly that Serbia needs to cooperate

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• 20 May

  Croatia expected to join EU in 2013

  Croatia will become a EU member state on July 1 2013, after having concluded the accession talks before this summer. Zagreb’s optimism is fueled by the expectation that EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele’s report to

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• 20 May

  Romania, Turkey to co-operate in fighting against crimes and terrorism

  Turkey and Romania agreed on Wednesday (May 18th) to ramp up co-operation in fighting terrorism and drug trafficking. Under the deal signed in Bucharest by

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• 20 May

  EU to decide on visa liberalisation for Balkans in June

  EU Representative to Macedonia Peter Sorensen said on Wednesday (May 18th) that the European Commission’s assessment of implementing the visa-liberalisation regime in the region will become clear in June. He was commenting on speculation that the visa-free regime could be suspended because of the influx of asylum applicants, mainly from …

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• 20 May

  1992-1995 Bosnian war crimes suspect arrested

  Bosnian Members of the State Information and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested a reserve police officer Wednesday (May 18th), suspected of war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. Miralem Macic, 42, allegedly killed two Serb civilians in 1992 in the Konjic municipality village of Bradina. Macic was detained only a …

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• 20 May

  Ivica Dacic reiterates idea of Kosovo partition

  Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic reiterated on Wednesday (May 18th) that a division of Kosovo could be one possible solution to the status issue, stressing this is his personal view, one he had not discussed with Serbian President Boris Tadic.

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• 20 May

  No agreement yet between Pristina and Belgrade

  The fourth round of talks between Pristina and Belgrade ended in Brussels yesterday with both delegations describing the two-day meeting as productive, regarding the freedom of movement, free trade, telecommunications and energy. No results, however, were presented and no agreement was struck. Kosovo representative Edita Tahiri said that missing persons …

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• 19 May

  Danish prosecutor for international crimes willing investigate 1995 killings in Croatia

  The Danish Special Prosecutor for International Crimes, Brigitte Vestberg, is willing to interview witnesses to the alleged killings of Serb civilians in Croatia in 1995. The Serbian prosecutor’s office

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