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EU police investigated in Kosovo
EU police in Kosovo said Friday they are conducting an investigation to determine if staff members tried to illegally enter the main vote counting center ahead of this weekend’s local election. The European Union is not involved in organizing the state’s poll on Sunday, but the center has access to computers that contain sensitive data. Christophe... »
Dutch open EU door for Serbia
Netherlands will no longer stand in the way of closer ties between Serbia and the European Union report the Dutch media. The three parties of the ruling coalition in the Dutch parliament say there are clear signs that Serbia is cooperating with the war crimes tribunal at the Hague and recommend that the Netherlands stop... »
Serbia to apply for EU membership
Serbia’s foreign minister says his country plans to submit its application for EU membership by year’s end. Vuk Jeremic says EU member states that oppose his nation’s entry aspirations should “move forward” and allow Serbia to start membership talks. The foreign minister told European Parliament lawmakers and EU officials Thursday that every citizen in the... »
Dutch may open EU doors to Serbia
The assessment of the Serbian parliamentary delegation after its visit to Netherlands is that the Dutch Parliament is debating the possibility of endorsing the EU interim deal, SAA, deadlocked because the Dutch demand Serbia arrest General Ratko Mladic wanted by the Hague war crimes tribunal. Holland might change its stand only once ICTY Chief Prosecutor... »
Choose EU or Kosovo, Doris Pack
German Member of the European Parliament Doris Pack said that Serbia will never join EU unless the issue of Kosovo is “resolved”, an insinuation that Serbia must recognize its province as an independent state. Speaking at the Foundation Science and Politics in Berlin, Pack accused Serbia that its “relation” to Kosovo is bad and that... »
Russia sees Serbia as bridge to EU
Russia’s President Dimitry Medvedev says that he sees an important role for Serbia in the proposed new system of European security. During his visit to Serbia, President Medvedev said that Serbia has an important role in the new system of European security that Russia first proposed to Germany in 2008. “Lessons from the past should teach... »
EU to donate billion euros to Serbia
The European Union would donate a total of one billion euros (1.5 billion U.S. dollars) to Serbia over the next five years, the EU representative in Serbia said on Wednesday. Vincent Degert, head of the European Commission Delegation to Serbia, made the statement during a visit to the city of Uzice in western Serbia, the... »
EU moves policy on FYROM, Kosovo
The European Commission proposed Wednesday to launch a process aimed at allowing people in Kosovo to travel to the E.U. without visas, and lay the foundations for a trade agreement. Also today, the European Commission Wednesday recommended that negotiations begin with Macedonia on joining the club of European Union countries, almost four years after it... »
EU fires lawless Kosovo Albanian judge
Kosovo’s justice watchdog suspended an ethnic Albanian judge on Friday for saying he voted against the verdict that found three former ethnic Albanian rebels guilty of war crimes in Kosovo’s 1998-99 war. The Kosovo Judicial Council said in a statement Rrahman Ratkoceri “committed a grave breach” of conduct and has been suspended from office. Ratkoceri told... »
US, EU present new plan for Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina-European and U.S. officials are sitting down with Bosnian leaders to outline a plan on how to overcome the stalemate that keeps Bosnia behind other regional countries seeking to join the EU and NATO. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg are presenting the joint EU, U.S. proposal... »
