Brussels’ foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has congratulated Croatian President Ivo Josipovic on the country’s EU accession, which is set for July 1. “Your EU accession is good not only for you but will be extremely good for EU member countries,” she said

The governments of Bulgaria and Turkey will start this week negotiations for an agreement regarding the freight traffic between the two countries, said Bulgarian Minister of Transport Kristian Krastev Sunday. Krastev will meet Turkish counterpart Binali

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić on Monday in Belgrade met with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, and the two held a news conference afterwards. The German foreign said that he could not prejudge the decision