Opposition Serb Progressive Party (SNS) leaders will be in Brussels today for an unofficial meeting with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele.
As Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar VuÄić meet with the EU official, they will discuss “the state of relations between the EU and Serbiaâ€, said announcements.
European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that the current financial crisis in Greece will not slow down the EU integration of the Western Balkans.
Fuele said that Brussels was aware of the challenges and risks and was taking into consideration the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and “relations between Serbia and Kosovo”.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele says that there is no “plan B†in case Bosnia-Herzegovina breaks apart. “No, we do not have a plan B. I do not think we should have any such plan,†he told the Europolitics bulletin and added that the EU was “working hard so that Bosnia-Herzegovina understood better its European futureâ€.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele is expected in Priština this afternoon. There, he will attend the opening of a new Kosovo Albanian Interior Ministry headquarters, co-financed from EU funds, said reports.
Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will be in Brussels on Tuesday, reports said.
He is expected to meet with the European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele.
There is no connection between Serbia’s EU path and the resolution of the Kosovo issue, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele stated. He also added that the European Commission (EC) expects that every EU candidate country should have good relations with the neighboring countries if it wants to make progress toward the EU.
European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that the European Commission is status-neutral on the issue of Kosovo. He said that the EC believes that a “European perspective exists for both Serbia and Kosovo”.
Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić is today on a one-day visit to Luxemburg and Brussels. There he will confer with European Union Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele.
The regional conference on the European future of the Western Balkans in Slovenia ended 45 minutes earlier than was announced. The meeting was called to a halt when EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele left the meeting. Sources said that the Macedonian Prime Minister would follow.
European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that Bosnia-Herzegovina is on the right road to achievement its visa liberalization this year. He called on the Bosnian government to continue with its reforms, changes in the constitution and election laws, in order to hold democratic elections in October.
European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele on Wednesday emphasized the European Commission’s support to Serbia’s European integration. After meeting with Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković in Belgrade, Fuele told reporters that the discussion focused on the need to maintain the positive momentum in Serbia’s European integration achieved late last year. He also mentioned entering a new stage of European integration this year as a second strategic goal.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele will be in Belgrade meeting with Serbian senior officials on Wednesday. “The further progress of Serbia’s European integration will be one of my priorities, taking into consideration the importance of this country for stability in the Western Balkans region. I want to confirm that the Commission is prepared to prepare its opinion on Serbia’s application for EU candidacy as soon as the demand arrives from the EU Council,” he told daily VeÄernje Novosti.
Serbia has made surprising progress in the last several months in its European integrations, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said. He told Belgrade daily Blic that the visa liberalization for Serbian citizens offers a new perspective for change and cooperation.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele stated in Skopje that the time was right to solve the dispute between Macedonia and Greece. “The country’s progress and EU accession process means that there is a unique possibility and opportunity now to find a solution, and this opportunity should be taken,†Fuele said in a speech to the members of the Macedonia-EU Mixed Parliamentary Committee.
Ivo Josipović has officially taken the office of the president of Croatia on Thursday in Zagreb. In addition to 80 foreign delegations, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Jacob Lew will attend the inauguration of the new head of the Croatian state, while the EU will be represented by new Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele.
Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Äelić said that the Serbian delegation will be one of the first to meet with new EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele. Äelić told B92 that the Serbian delegation will be the first delegation of a country striving for EU candidate status that will be meeting with Fuele immediately after he takes over for Olli Rehn as the new EU Enlargement Commissioner.
Newly elected EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that the Western Balkans will not be left out of the European enlargement plans. Fuele, who was the Czech Republic’s European affairs minister, said that it is important to continue the negotiations that have already started, but also added that the countries of the Western Balkans would not be left by the wayside as far as European enlargement plans are concerned.
