Greek FM Dimitris Droutsas has stated that Greece, which, along with Bulgaria, has assumed the responsibility of ushering neighboring countries into the EU.
Greece is doing everything in its power to promote the idea of the EU enlargement in the Western Balkan region, he said.
Posts Tagged ‘Western Balkan’
“Serbia plays key role in EU enlargement”
January 18th, 2011 |
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PM attends Brussels conference
December 9th, 2010 |
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Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković is taking part in a conference on European integration of the Western Balkan states in Brussels today. Cvetković told the gathering that Belgrade is ready for the beginning of a dialogue with PriÅ¡tina, and warned that such issues ‘should not be pushed under the rug’.
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.
“European perspective helps maintain peaceâ€
September 6th, 2010 |
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Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Äukić-Dejanović said that the European perspective of the Western Balkan countries helps to maintain peace in the region. She opened a two-day meeting of the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Belgrade.
EU-Western Balkans conference in Sarajevo
June 2nd, 2010 |
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48 delegations, including foreign ministers of the Western Balkan countries, gathered in Sarajevo today for the European Union-Western Balkans conference. The closed-door informal gathering was sponsored by the Spanish presidency of the EU.
“Serbia in EU is Spain’s priorityâ€
April 28th, 2010 |
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The progress of Serbia and the Western Balkan in EU integrations process is one of Madrid’s priorities. This is according to Spanish EU Presidency spokeswoman Cristina Gallach.
Spain did not influence conference snub
March 24th, 2010 |
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Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos did not exert any influence on the representatives of any Western Balkan country regarding the recent conference in Slovenia. This includes Serbian President Boris Tadić, who did not to attend the conference in Brdo-pri-Kranju, said Spanish State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Angel Losada.
“W. Balkans to enter NATO in 10 years”
March 11th, 2010 |
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Ex-NATO Secretary General George Robertson says the Western Balkan countries have made significant progress. He also expressed his belief that the whole region will be part of the Alliance in ten years.
Two “EU Balkan summits” in works
March 8th, 2010 |
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Slovenia and Croatia’s intention to organize a conference of the Western Balkan countries has prompted mixed reactions in the EU member states, say reports. While some support the move, others are worried that it could overshadow a planned EU-Western Balkans foreign ministers conference, scheduled by the Spanish EU Presidency, to be held in Sarajevo at the end of May or beginning of June, WAZ.EUobserver.com has reported.
Athens, Vienna in Balkan integration plan
January 27th, 2010 |
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Austria and Greece have started an initiative for getting all Western Balkan countries into the European Union by 2014. These two countries submitted a letter to EU Foreign and Security Policies Chief Catherine Ashton and EU member-state foreign ministers, stating that it is their goal to get all the countries of the region into the EU by 2014, the 100-year anniversary of the start of World War I.
Tadić, Papandreou on W. Balkans initiative
November 11th, 2009 |
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Serbian President Boris Tadić conferred Tuesday in Athens with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. Tadić thanked him for his initiative for the Western Balkan countries’ integration in the European Union by 2014, his office said.
EP backs visa abolition report
October 20th, 2009 |
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The European Parliamentary Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has supported a report on visa abolition for the Western Balkan states. The visa abolition report for the Western Balkans was submitted by MEP and EP rapporteur for visa liberalization in the region Tanja Falon.
EC calls for unfreezing of interim agreement
October 14th, 2009 |
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The European Commission has called on the EU to implement the Interim Trade Agreement with Serbia in Brussels today. In its annual progress report on the Western Balkan states, the EC states that the authorities in Belgrade have proven their commitment to EU integration, are implementing the trade agreement, and are consistently cooperating with the Hague Tribunal.
Jeremić: Balkans must seize opportunity
October 7th, 2009 |
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Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that the countries of the Western Balkans have not a second to waste now that the Irish have adopted the Lisbon Treaty. After meeting with a number of foreign ministers in Budapest, Jeremić said that a summit of the European Union and Western Balkan countries was needed, and that Balkan countries must seize this moment and move ahead, through European integration.
Balkan citizens still support EU integration
October 2nd, 2009 |
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The majority of Western Balkan citizens support their countries’ aspirations to join the EU, according to the latest Gallup poll. In Serbia, 58 percent of the population supports EU integration, down two percent on 2006, according to Deutsche Welle.
“Serbia fulfills visa conditions”
September 29th, 2009 |
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Serbia has fulfilled all conditions for the lifting of the visa regime, says an EP official. If everything goes in line with the expectations, the Serbian citizens should have their visa regime abolished as of January 1, 2010, European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for visa liberalization for the Western Balkan countries Tanja Fajon has stated.
Hungary backs regional countries’ accession
July 29th, 2009 |
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Hungarian PM Gordon Bajnai stated Wednesday that official Budapest “actively supports†accession of Serbia, Croatia and Albania to the European Union. Hungary finds that its support to a full accession of the Western Balkan countries in the European Union is one of its foreign policy priorities, which is why it sends its most eminent ambassadors to those countries, Bajnai said at the opening of a three-day meeting in Budapest, which gathers Hungarian diplomats from all parts of the world every summer.
“EU supports integration of W. Balkans”
July 28th, 2009 |
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Western Balkan countries have to overcome more obstacles, while European Union member-states have understood that they should support the integration process. This is according to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who spoke on Monday in Brussels after a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Macedonia’s Gruevski meets with Cvetković
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Serbian and Macedonian Prime Ministers Mirko Cvetković and Nikola Gruevski say that Western Balkan states on their way to the EU should work together. “Both countries have the same goal, which is accession to the EU, and both countries are investing every effort to that end,” Gruevski told a joint press conference after the meeting. He said that Serbia and Macedonia wanted to be part of a Europe without borders.