Friday, July 21, 2006

Integration and disintegration

Good news in terms of integration, within, and of the Balkans with EU/NATO. The disintegration of Yugoslavia continues as the negotiators of Kosova and Serbia are going to talk about independence in the next meeting in Vienna. And in a reminder of the recent past, Bosnians bury victims of the war.


Pack calls for immediate visa facilitation for Balkans
Makfax - 22 hours ago
European Union should quickly move on with visa facilitation for the western Balkan countries, said Doris Pack, Head of European Parliament's Delegation for South Eastern Europe. According to Pack, some EU ...


Greece set to introduce free crossing of border with Macedonia
Makfax - 22 hours ago
Macedonian citizens living within 50 kilometers from the border with Greece will be able to cross the border free and without being required passports. Facilitated entrance in Greece will be applied to border ...


Scheffer: When Macedonia is ready, NATO will be too
Makfax - 7 hours ago
The kind of signal Macedonia is to receive from the NATO Summit in Riga will depend on the progress in reforms implementation, says the letter sent by the NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer to the Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski. ...

Romania's attorney general resigns
Monsters and Critics.com - 2 hours ago
Bucharest - Romanian Attorney General Ilie Botos resigned on Friday without providing an official reason, a day after the directors of Romania's three security agencies tendered their resignations. Observers ...

Kosovo independence on agenda of top-level talks
Reuters.uk - 9 hours ago
By Matt Robinson. BELGRADE (Reuters) - Kosovo will stake its claim to independence on Monday at top-level talks between Serbs and ethnic Albanians, unprecedented since NATO's 1999 air war wrested control of the province from Serbia. ...

Serbia's Kostunica to attend Kosovo talks
Washington Post - 11 hours ago
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica will attend top-level talks with Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders on the fate of the breakaway province next week in Vienna, the government said on Friday. ...

Serbian president accused of meddling in Bosnia's internal affairs
KOSOVAREPORT - 21 hours ago
"Serbian President Boris Tadic's expose in Brussels which threatens that the possible independence of Kosovo could destabilize the situation in Bosnia-Hercegovina is a flagrant example of interference in the internal affairs of Bosnia-Hercegovina and ...


Mass burial for Bosnia war dead
BBC News - 14 hours ago
Thousands of people have gathered in the Bosnian town of Prijedor to bury 305 victims of the Bosnian war. The bodies - mostly of Bosnian Muslims - were discovered in mass graves in 2004 and identified by DNA analysis. ...