Macedonia offers olive branch to Bulgaria
Under pressure from Brussels on the name issue dispute with Greece, Skopje seeks to re-build relationship with with Sofia.
Sat, Nov 21 2009
Under pressure from Brussels on the name issue dispute with Greece, Skopje seeks to re-build relationship with with Sofia.
Parties that governed together in Pristina fall out because of their battle in Kosovo’s local government elections.
The white tigress is a rare animal resulting from a special recessive gene
The agreement was signed in Brussels earlier this week but it's still a long way off before the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian brigade can be formalized as an international agreement.
Media reports say that the EU will pressure Athens and Skopje to come up with a solution to the Macedonia name dispute by December 7, or Brussels will take a cooler approach to Macedonia’s EU hopes; while a row breaks out in Belgrade after Serbia’s foreign minister takes sides in the dispute.
Affected by quarantine and panic, life in Kyiv has been subdued in the past few weeks.
Russia’s planned humanitarian base in Serbia could hold deeper strategic interests
Welcomed by the UK government, France and Germany, as well as the US, the naming of Belgium’s Herman van Rompuy as European Council President and Catherine Ashton as foreign policy chief has caused misgivings in some circles, including Turkey which believes that Van Rompuy will oppose Turkish membership of the bloc.
European Commission, international financial institutions and EU member states agree on Western Balkans Investment Framework to fund projects in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia.
Sweden, current holder of the European Union presidency, is working with Czech authorities on an opt-out on some provisions of the Lisbon Treaty to open the way for president Vaclav Klaus to sign it.
US vice president Joe Biden seeks to reassure Warsaw that Washington’s aim of ‘resetting’ relations with Moscow will not weaken the security of Eastern Europe.
A settlement on Cyrpus must precede Turkey advancing in its EU hopes, says Greek prime minister George Papandreou, urging Ankara to withdraw its troops from the divided island.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Serbia saw Moscow agreeing to lend a billion euro; the signing of bilateral agreements on education, science and police collaboration; and on the Serbian section of South Stream and a joint venture for the Banatski Dvor underground gas storage site.
The Registrar's Office of the Hague Tribunal appoints British attorney Richard Harvey as Radovan Karadzic's Defence attorney.
Macedonian Prime Minister and leader of the centre right VMRO DPMNE party said that a memo he recently sent to his supporters does not mean he is considering early elections.
The President of the International Court of Justice, ICJ, Hisashi Owada says that the Court’s advisory opinion on whether Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence went against international law will not be "a clear yes or no".
Here are the top stories in Bosnia and Herzegovina's main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
Although more than half Albanian nationals admit of having paid a bribe during last year, their believe that their standard of living has improved and identify more readily with current politicians, a new study reveals.
It is hard to believe that only twenty years ago many Eastern European countries were cut off from Western countries and...
Germany celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall with spectacular celebrations in the capital, and constant rain did...
Classic and contemporary masterpieces... Hungarian and international works of art... World-famous artists and young up-and-coming talents... Thought-inspiring, ironic and provocative...
Budapest, November 19 (MTI) - The European Commission should appoint as soon as possible a European coordinator for the Nabucco gas pipeline...
Budapest, November 18 (MTI) - Police have found a second body buried in the town of Mohacs in southern Hungary, identified...
Mixed reactions to Van Rompuy, Ashton taking EU top jobs
Slovakia commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism
Belgian safe for Poland, assures Tusk
Polish leaders push for transparency in decision process
The agreement was signed in Brussels earlier this week
TALLINN - A number of Estonians that allegedly took part in a major hacking operation late last year. The eight people that were indicted for the heist, which netted more that $9 million and has been described as the most complex hacking operation in history, include 5 people from Estonia. ...
RIGA - Two men who were found innocent last month are going to have to return to court to face an appeal. In the high-profile case, the two stag partiers were accused of attacking a police officer. They were found innocent of the crime and were allowed to return to their native Britain, but ...
VILNIUS - Lithuania is set to sell off about 50 million tons of carbon credits. Reuters reported on Moday that the credits will come from the country's 2008-2012 quota. Lithuania, which has been allocated 221.3 million tonnes of credit over the period, is allowed to sell off any une...
RIGA - The number of cases of the AH1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu, in Latvia have skyrocketed over the past week, increasing from about 80 last week to more than 380 on Nov. 16. The cities of Daugavpils - where the disease has been declared an epidemic - Rezekne, Gulbene, Jelg...
TALLINN - Moody's Ratings Agency, one of the largest in the world, has praised Estonia's reaction to the financial crisis. Kenneth Orchid, deputy president of the agency, said the country had built up reserves during its growth years that will now allow the country to come out of the...