PM Mirko Cvetković said that Kosovo was discussed at his meeting with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele in Belgrade on Wednesday. Fuele arrived here to deliver the EU questionnaire.
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EU commissioner gives PM questionnaire
November 24th, 2010 |
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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.
Dutch FM: EU shares our stance on Hague
November 23rd, 2010 |
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Dutch FM Uri Rosenthal stated that his country wants the Serbian authorities to do everything to arrest Hague fugitives. He added that is the viewpoint of all EU member countries, not only Holland.
“Media should bring EU closer to citizensâ€
November 20th, 2010 |
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Head of the European Union Delegation to Serbia Vincent Degert says that in their reporting on EU integration Serbian media should bring EU closer to citizens.
At the presentation of the result of a BBC research on the coverage of EU integration by Serbian media, Degert said that this year’s progress report included topics of electronic communications and digitalization, but also the cases of unresolved murders of three journalists.
High school students don’t like EU
November 19th, 2010 |
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Croatian high school students are not in favor of Croatia’s EU membership and they express explicit nationalistic and homophobic views, a survey shows.
According to the poll conducted by GONG NGO, Croatian high school students are also “fairly politically illiterate”.
PM talks dialogue with Priština, EU integration
November 19th, 2010 |
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The goal of the dialogue with Priština is reconciliation of Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, said Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković.
He told Czech daily Lidove Noviny that “the issue of the recognition of Kosovo is set aside for nowâ€.
FM on EU enlargement, Kosovo
November 19th, 2010 |
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Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić was in London on Thursday where he met with his British counterpart William Hague. Jeremić stated afterwards that London will continue to be strongly committed to the EU path of Serbia and entire region.
“Kosovo should not be condition for EU”
November 18th, 2010 |
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The Kosovo issue should not be imposed as a precondition for Serbia’s membership in the European Union, says Slovak Interior Minister Daniel LipÅ¡ic.
LipÅ¡ic met in Belgrade on Thursday with his Serbian counterpart Ivica DaÄić. The ministers signed an agreement on readmission between the two countries.
EP chief on key factors of EU integration
November 18th, 2010 |
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Dialogue with PriÅ¡tina and full cooperation with the Hague will be decisive factors on Serbia’s EU path, said European Parliament (EP) President Jerzy Buzek.
He told Belgrade-based daily VeÄernje novosti that the EP had always extended its support to the European future of all Western Balkan countries and that parliamentarians from 27 EU member states would remain serious advocates of the continuation of the EU enlargement process.
Clinton, Hague support Balkan in EU
November 18th, 2010 |
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and British Foreign Secretary William Hague have expressed their support for the Balkans’ Euro-Atlantic integration. They also backed a dialogue between Belgrade and PriÅ¡tina, said reports from Washington.
“Serbs love Kosovo, EU enthusiasm declines”
November 17th, 2010 |
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The percentage of the people in Serbia who think it would be good for their country to join the EU has dropped from 50 to 44 percent over the last year. However, 63 percent said that they would vote to join the EU in a referendum.
EU rescue plan on standby for Ireland
November 17th, 2010 |
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A bail-out package for cash-strapped Ireland is in the processes of being pulled together should Dublin ask for it.
The Irish government continues to insist it has enough money to keep the economy going until the middle of next year.
No agreement on EU budget as talks collapse
November 16th, 2010 |
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A disappointed president of the EP, Jerzy Buzek, has pointed the finger of blame at a few member states as talks over the bloc’s 2011 budget collapsed. MEPs offered to drop their demand for an increase of just over six per cent and to back a 2.9 per cent budget hike. But they also wanted guarantees of a more equal say in future budget negotiations.
Amnesty says EU “failing” over CIA renditions
November 16th, 2010 |
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Amnesty International has accused the EU of failing to hold its members to account for their role in the detention of terrorism suspects by the CIA. It calls for European governments to ensure justice for suspects who were interrogated under the programme known as extraordinary rendition.
LDP: No EU with this government
November 15th, 2010 |
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LDP leader ÄŒedomir Jovanović says his party believes elections should take place in 2011. The currently ruling Democratic Party (DS) and LDP could then form a new, “pure European governmentâ€, he told Belgrade daily Blic in an interview.
Croats skeptical of EU membership
November 14th, 2010 |
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Majority of Croats would vote against EU membership even though accession talks are likely to conclude soon, shows survey conducted by Gallup International.
While the country’s political class may have begun popping the champagne corks over the European Commission’s latest positive progress report, only one quarter of Croats currently consider EU accession to be a good idea.
“Serbia’s relations with EU, U.S. at turning pointâ€
November 11th, 2010 |
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Serbia’s relations with the EU and the U.S. have passed a historical turning point, said U.S. professor and NATO and EU expert Charles Kupchan.
Kupchan has assessed that “key event for this change of course was resolution of the UN General Assembly,†daily Politika writes.
Eu Yan Sang International – Corporate moves
November 11th, 2010 |
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Matthew J. Estes has been appointed independent director wef Oct 29
Work experience: President/CEO, BabyCare Ltd; MD, Greater China, Wella Cosmetics
Action plan on EU bid in works
November 10th, 2010 |
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Deputy PM Božidar Äelić stated on Wednesday that he expects the government to discuss the new EC enlargement report. This would be followed by adoption of a 10-point action plan next week, explained he.
Rompuy urges EU expansion in first “Europe Address”
November 10th, 2010 |
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President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy warned against protectionism, nationalism and euroskepticism in the first annual “Europe Address” in Berlin. The speech, organized by three German policy institutes, is meant to to measure progress in European integration and is to take place every year on November 9, the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.