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Deputy PM Božidar Đelić spoke with new European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Feule in Brussels on Thursday. Beta news agency reports that he said that Serbia had received Fuele's full support to take further steps toward European integration.

Serbia’s EU candidacy will not be discussed during the two-day EU Council of Ministers session that begins on Monday. The meeting will be used to focus on the priorities of the Spanish presidency, with special attention put on economic recovery in the EU, strengthening foreign policies and implementing the ...

Head of the European Commission (EC) Delegation in Serbia Vincent Degert said that Serbia must complete certain legal steps before becoming an EU candidate. He said that there will be a ministerial meeting held in Brussels next week at which Serbia’s candidacy for EU membership will be discussed.

The relations between Serbia and the Czech Republic are very good, said Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić and his Czech counterpart and Deputy PM Jan Kohout. As the two ministers met in Belgrade on Wednesday, they found that their countries have managed to isolate the only seriously open issue – the ...

The Spanish EU presidency in Brussels has informed representatives of EU states about Serbia’s request to receive candidacy status for admission to the EU. A short information about the Serbian candidacy was presented at the meeting of the EU Western Balkans Committee and the EU Permanent Representatives Committee.

Submitting Serbia's application for EU candidacy was not premature, says Boris Tadić, and adds he hopes the country would receive that status in 2010. Speaking in Novi Sad on Wednesday night, the president said that Serbia was "not the same country" after the formal request to become EU candidate, submitted ...

President Boris Tadić this Tuesday in Stockholm, Sweden, submitted Serbia's application requesting that the country be granted EU candidate status. Tadić submitted the formal bid to Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country is currently presiding over the EU.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said that this is “the right moment” for Serbia to apply for candidate status for joining the EU. Bildt said that the implementation of the interim trade agreement with the EU has enabled Serbia to apply in Stockholm tomorrow.

Western media commented the decision of the Serbian government to apply for candidate status for becoming a member of the European Union. International media groups stressed that Serbia has made a lot of progress in its European integration this year.

The Serbian government will hold a meeting on Saturday to decide on when Belgrade will apply for European Union candidate status. Before the meeting of the cabinet’s Council for European Integrations, which Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković will preside over, President Boris Tadić will be present at the meeting of ...

The government will decide on Saturday when Serbia's EU candidacy application will be submitted, President Boris Tadić said. Tadić, who is leading the state delegation at the final part of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, stated that he would attend the government meeting on Saturday and submit his ...

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that Serbia should apply for EU candidate status by December 25. He said that Rome supports the speeding up of the European integration of Serbia and the Western Balkans, which is why it lauded the decision to unfreeze the interim trade agreement.

President Boris Tadić says Serbia would apply for EU candidacy when it was sure of a positive outcome, Beta news agency reported. Serbia's move would come when the nations of Europe were ready to welcome its candidacy with "open arms", he told a conference held at the Serbian parliament, called ...

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić told B92 TV that a decision will be made on Serbia’s EU candidacy application after consultations are held with European partners. Despite the many statements by state officials that Serbia would submit its application for candidate-status by the end of the year, Jeremić – who said ...

Serbian President Boris Tadić said that a decision will be made soon on when Serbia will apply for candidate status for becoming an EU member. He said that the unfreezing of the Interim Trade Agreement makes Serbia look like a safe destination to investors and opens new room for Serbia ...

President Boris Tadić said that Serbia will make a decision by the end of the year of whether it will apply for European Union candidate status. He said that as far as the unfreezing of the Interim Trade Agreement with the EU is concerned, nothing will be known until Hague ...

Serbia will apply for EU candidacy after the Interim Trade Agreement (ITA) has been unfrozen, says President Boris Tadić. Speaking in Belgrade on Thursday, he added that "time for candidacy is right when it is clear that we will get a positive answer from the EU".

European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin said that it is unrealistic for Serbia to apply for EU candidacy by the end of 2009. “Candidacy is an important issue, that is why we must be realistic. It cannot be a game of poker, put a game with clear rules with ...

Serbia is planning to submit its EU candidacy after the meeting of the EU Council of Ministers on December 10. This is when the Interim Trade Agreement, a part of the suspended SAA between Belgrade and Brussels, is expected to be unfrozen, Belgrade daily Blic writes.

Office for European Integrations Director Milica Delević said that Serbia will submit its application for EU membership in agreement with its European partners. She said that consultations will first be held to determine how the application will be received by Union member-states.