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01.07.2009 @ 09:25 CET
Turkey took another small step in its slow EU membership negotiations on Tuesday by getting the green light to open discussions in a new policy area.
30.06.2009 @ 09:27 CET
Albania's two main parties were neck and neck as results from Sunday's vote were still being counted on Monday, while international observers said there were flaws in the way the elections were carried out and the European Union called on Tirana to do better in the future.
01.07.2009 @ 17:36 CET
In a surprise move, Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader, whose government started accession negotiations with the EU in 2005 and who led the country into Nato earlier this year, presented his resignation on Wednesday. Mr Sanader also said he was withdrawing from politics for good.
26.06.2009 @ 06:51 CET
Turkey is hoping to next week open a new chapter of its accession talks with the EU, the country's European affairs minister said on Thursday, reiterating that Ankara is aiming for full membership of the bloc.
24.06.2009 @ 17:43 CET
In a new setback to Croatia's EU bid, the Czech EU presidency on Wednesday cancelled an EU-Croatia intergovernmental conference planned for 26 June due to Croatia and Slovenia's border dispute which has been blocking Zagreb's EU accession talks for six months. EU officials have indicated they are increasingly fatigued by the dispute.
29.06.2009 @ 09:26 CET
Albania's general election, widely seen as a key test in view of the country's EU aspirations, went relatively smoothly on Sunday, with early exit polls giving Prime Minister Sali Berisha's Democratic Party a clear lead over the opposition Socialists.
23.06.2009 @ 09:04 CET
With just over a week to go before Sweden takes over the helm of the EU's rotating six-month presidency, the country's foreign minister, Carl Bildt, has made it clear he does not intend to waste time attempting to unblock the many bilateral disputes that currently pepper the EU's diplomatic landscape
18.06.2009 @ 19:10 CET
Negotiations between Slovenia, Croatia and the European Commission aimed at solving the two countries' long-lasting border dispute have broken down, Slovenia announced on Thursday, adding it was very unlikely that it would unblock Zagreb's EU accession talks in the immediate future.
23.06.2009 @ 09:17 CET
Bosnian leaders should improve the political climate in their country and bring a halt to their inflammatory rhetoric or they risk slowing down Bosnia's European Union integration, both the EU and NATO said in a new warning to Sarajevo on Monday.
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10.06.2009 @ 09:15 CET
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the EU to stick to its commitments on Ankara's EU accession, following the triumph by conservatives in the European elections.
10.06.2009 @ 08:05 CET
Ten years after the end of the war in Kosovo, the EU needs to step up pressure on both Kosovo and Serbia in order to have a number of blocked war crimes cases solved. It also should assist them technically and financially, Amnesty International has said.
16.06.2009 @ 07:06 CET
The citizens of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro could be allowed visa-free travel to the EU as early as the end of this year, foreign ministers said Monday. Meanwhile, Croatia and Slovenia once again failed to make any progress on their border dispute.
27.05.2009 @ 17:35 CET
Yet another round of talks on the longstanding border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia failed on Wednesday increasing the pressure on Zagreb's EU membership timetable.
26.05.2009 @ 09:18 CET
The European Commission on Monday presented EU member states with its assessment of how well western Balkan countries have been fulfilling the conditions for visa-free travel to the bloc, with Macedonia given the best mark, and Albania and Bosnia the worst.
More than a bilateral dispute that is blocking Zagreb's EU bid, the Croatia-Slovenia border row is harming the EU's cred...
At times the Balkans can deliver a positive surprise and carry fundamental reforms. This is especially true when it come...
International calls to solve the Bosnian problem have intensified as political leaders, in particular Republika Srpska p...
05.07.2009 @ 17:23 CET
Italian MEP Mario Mauro has pulled out of the race to become the next president of the EU parliament. The move leaves the way clear for Polish conservative deputy Jerzy Buzek to take up the post instead.
03.07.2009 @ 21:50 CET
Sweden is considering holding an informal summit in September to deal with the financial crisis and climate change - two of the biggest issues on its EU presidency agenda. French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly supports the idea, says a spokesperson for Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt.
03.07.2009 @ 14:56 CET
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Friday said that a European Parliament vote on Jose Manuel Barroso's bid to become European Commission president for a second time will not take place mid-July. Stockholm is now pushing to have it take place by 15 September.
03.07.2009 @ 13:58 CET
Turnout in Bulgaria's legislative elections on Sunday will reach 55 to 60%, according to polling agency Gallup. It says Sofia mayor Borisov's centre-right Gerb party will get up to 30% of the votes, followed by the ruling Socialists (19 - 23%) and the Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (15%).
03.07.2009 @ 13:57 CET
The resignation of Croat PM Sanader was his political "rebellion" against Slovenia's blocking of Croatia's EU talks, MP Andrija Hebrang from Mr Sanader's conservative HDZ party said, reports Hina. Meanwhile, Slovenia said it hopes the new Croat government will resume talks on their border dispute.
03.07.2009 @ 09:35 CET
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has attacked a German court decision to allow the Lisbon treaty after a tweak to German national law. "I do not believe that it is possible to annul the known defects of the Lisbon Treaty by an accompanying law," he wrote in the Mlada Fronta Dnes newspaper.
03.07.2009 @ 09:31 CET
The four EU states which had full ambassador-level representation in Honduras - France, Germany, Italy and Spain - have recalled their envoys in protest at a recent coup against President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the Swedish EU presidency said. Spain has led the EU's opposition to the coup.
03.07.2009 @ 08:32 CET
France has said that draft commission plans for hedge fund regulation are a step in the right direction but will need to be tightened up before they can be accepted. "I will not let this directive be adopted in this state," said the country's economy minister Christine Lagarde, reports Reuters.
03.07.2009 @ 08:30 CET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised countries that measures must be stepped up to end market cyclicality, reports the Wall Street Journal. Economic growth - when it returns - must be tempered she said, to prevent further cycles of boom and bust.
Moody's credit rating agency downgraded Ireland from its top rating on Thursday, following similar moves by other agencies earlier this year. Moody's cited the government's deteriorating public finances as the main reason, as an increasing share of tax revenues is used to service the country's debt.
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