December 5, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Montenegro, Serbia
Foreign ministers of the EU member states will hold a debate on EU enlargement on Monday in Brussels. During it, they will formulate a decision on Serbia’s candidacy, and a date for start of the accession talks with Montenegro. The final decision regarding the matter should be reached by EU …
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December 5, 2011 Eurasia News, Romania News
On 1 December, talks between Moldova and the pro-Moscow separatist region of Trans-Dniester concluded in Lithuania with an agreement for more meetings at the beginning of next year. Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Audronis Azubalis
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December 5, 2011 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News, Romania News
The EU decided to launch negotiations on a deep and comprehensive free trade area with Georgia and Moldova in order to boost economic growth and investment with the Eastern European partners. The negotiations will tackle a broad range of trade and economic issues so as to achieve a closer economic …
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December 5, 2011 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Sunday at a meeting with the residents of Zugdidi to start construction of a new half-million of the city – Lazika. According to him, this city will become the main trade and economic center of Georgia. “We decided to base the city between Anaklia and …
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December 5, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
The United States will support Greece in these difficult times, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told reporters ahead of a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos today, without spelling out any concrete help.
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December 5, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Bosnia will seek EU candidacy status in December despite an ongoing stalemate in forming a central government, a top official said on Wednesday. “I think we will submit this year, namely in December, a candidacy to join the European Union,” Muslim member of Bosnia’s
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December 5, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
The International Court of Justice, ICJ, in The Hague on Monday found Greece guilty of breaching the UN 1995 deal with Macedonia by blocking the country’s membership of NATO in 2008. The president of the court, Judge Hisashi Ovada, said the judges had ruled by 15
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December 5, 2011 Eurasia News, Romania News
Parliament in Chisinau has set December 16 as the date for new presidential elections. In its second attempt in less than a month to pick a president, Moldova’s parliament has scheduled presidential elections for December 16.
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December 2, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
A prosecution witness in the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Thursday testified before the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on exhumation of 2,500 victims killed by Serb forces in eastern town of Srebrenica in July 1995.
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December 2, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Another round of talks between Belgrade and Priština was completed in Brussels late on Thursday without “final results”. An agreement on administrative crossings and Priština’s participation in regional forums was
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