By submitting its answers to the EC questionnaire Serbia has taken relations with the EU to a new level, said EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule.
“We have started studying hundreds of thousands of pages. There will be many missions that will come to Belgrade,†he told B92.
Outgoing Prime Minister Milo Äukanović successfully steered Montenegro toward the EU both before and after it declared independence. He also contributed to the country’s steady progress in the process of EU accession, assessed EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule, the media in Podgorica reported Wednesday.
An FCC commissioner draws parallels between "darkest day of the year" and the impending vote on net neutrality. –
Ahead of a scheduled vote by the Federal Communications Commission on
net neutrality which involves the FCC potentially limiting the ability of
Internet service providers such as AT amp;T, Verizon and Comcast to
restrict certain content and sites from their data networks a Republican
commiss…
Clyburn cautioned that net neutrality does not cause the development of two different kinds of Internet worlds. – Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Mignon Clyburn
distanced herself from the position of the bodys chairman, Julius
Genachowski, with remarks during the Practicing Law Institute’s annual
telecommunications summit, telling the audience she thought net
neutrality a concept supporting a…
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele has given the EC questionnaire to Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković in Belgrade this Wednesday.
Providing answers to the questionnaire is one of the conditions for EU candidacy status.
EU Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fuele will visit Belgrade on November 24, when he will officially present the Serbian government with a questionnaire. It will consist of 4,000-5,000 questions, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Božidar Äelić said on Monday.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele is in Belgrade for talks with Serbian officials about Serbia’s further EU integrations and concrete steps.
Fuele was expected to give a message of encouragement to Serbia to commit to key challenges of the European reform agenda, including justice, combat against corruption and cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele stated in Brussels on Thursday that he will confer with Serbian officials in Belgrade.
He said they would discuss the steps that should follow the European Commission’s green light to the opinion on Serbia’s membership bid, and expressed hope that a consensus on Serbia’s EU candidacy will be reached by the next meeting of the Council of the European Union in October.
President Boris Tadić will meet with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele in Belgrade on September 17. Fuele will use his visit to Belgrade to discuss practical issues of Serbia’s EU integration with Serbian officials, according to earlier information from Fuele’s office and an announcement from the president’s cabinet.
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.
“EU integrations and Kosovo are separate issues, but bilateral matters should be solved in parallel with the EU integrations process,” says Stefan Fuele. The EU enlargement commissioner told Belgrade daily Politika in an interview that any country intent on joining the EU must “demonstrate that it has good relations with its neighbors, based on cooperation, tolerance, and mutual understanding”.
Western Balkans leaders should clear up unsolved issues from the past, including “demarcation of borders” says Stefan Fuele. Speaking for Belgrade daily Danas, the EU enlargement commissioner added that “border demarcation is part of good neighborly relations and regional cooperation, which countries should solve bilaterally.”
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.
Deputy PM Božidar Äelić is due to meet today in Brussels with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele. They will discuss possible dates when Serbia’s candidacy for EU membership bid could be debated by the EU Council of Ministers.
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.
Intel had asked the FTC to bar Commissioner Thomas Rosch from hearing the agencys lawsuit against the chipmaker because of his prior work with Intel. The FTC declined, saying Roschs involvement with Intel was long ago and irrelevant to the current case, which accuses Intel of anticompetitive behavior in its dealings with AMD and Nvidia.
– Intel has lost its bid to have one of the commissioners participate
in the Federal Trade Commissions lawsuit against the giant chip maker.
Hours before the FTC filed the antitrust complaint against
Intel, officials with the company petitioned the commission to have
Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch d…
Bulgaria’s controversial candidate for the post of European commissioner, Rumiana Jeleva, has resigned. Austrian People’s Party MP in the European Parliament Othmar Karas has confirmed that Jeleva withdrew her nomination for EU commissioner for humanitarian aid due to “personal reasonsâ€.
New FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn calls Verizon Wireless’ response to an inquiry about its early termination fees troubling and unsatisfying.
– FCC
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn wasted little time in dismissing Verizon Wireless’
defense of its increased early termination fees for smartphones. In a Dec. 23
statement, Clyburn lashed out publicly at Verizon’s Nov. 5 decision to double
the penalty fees to $350 for smartphone subscribers who e…
Microsoft will have a new European Commission Competition Commissioner in mid-January 2010, as Neelie Kroes steps down to take another position within the EU law enforcement body. Meanwhile, reports circulating online indicate that Microsoft and the European Commission may conclude a deal over Internet Explorer 8 being bundled with Windows 7 by Dec. 15. Opera, Mozilla and other companies previously planned on asking the Commission to review Microsoft’s solution for the issue, which involved installing a ballot screen that would let users choose their browser.
– Microsoft will face a new European Commission antitrust watchdog in
mid-January, as European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes steps down
to take a new job as a vice president of the EC.
Due
to replace Kroes is JoachÃn Almunia, who currently serves as commissioner for
Economic …
