President Traian Basescu announced on Thursday (4 February) that Romania’s Supreme Defence Council had accepted an invitation from US President Obama to host an anti-missile shield. EurActiv Romania reports. (Published 5/02/10)
Bulgarian commissioner-designate Kristalina Georgieva scored high marks at a European Parliament confirmation hearing yesterday (3 February), earning repeated applause from MEPs across party lines and paving the way for the approval of the Barroso II team next week in Strasbourg. (04/02/10)
To become stronger internationally, Europe must take Turkey on board, Yuhishthir Raj Isar, a professor at the American University in Paris, told EurActiv in an interview. (Published 04/02/10)
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said he believes a solution to the long-standing ‘name dispute’ between Skopje and Athens will be reached soon. (Published 4/02/10)
Awarding Istanbul the title of ‘European Capital of Culture’ is a great opportunity for Europe to understand Turkey and for Turkey to better understand the EU, Egemen Bağış, Turkey’s EU chief negotiator, told the European Parliament on 2 February. (Published 3/02/10)
The rationale for the existence of a tribunal to redress the evils committed in South-Eastern Europe during the nineties is not yet exhausted, claimed Serge Brammertz, chief UN prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), on 26 January 2010. (Published 2/02/10)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cyprus on 31 January to inject momentum into peace talks between the island’s estranged Greeks and Turks. (Published 1/02/10)
The country’s EU membership has put pressure on the authorities to contain the greed of firms building on protected sites, Bulgarian environmentalists said. Dnevnik, EurActiv’s partner publication in Bulgaria, reports.
Despite setbacks, Romania will continue supporting the inclusion of Moldova in the Western Balkan group of countries that were promised EU accession, Romanian President Traian Basescu pledged during a visit to his country’s neighbour. EurActiv Romania reports. (Published 29/01/10)
The election of a Turkish member of parliament as president of the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly (PACE) triggered nervous reactions from the Kurdish, Armenian and Cypriot sides, a round-up of the international press shows. (Published 28/01/10)
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