Sat, Nov 07 2009
Kosovo president Fatmir Sejdiu.

Inquiries have ceased, says Skopje intermediary who ran a business helping Macedonians get Bulgarian passports. Macedonians are poised to be able to enter the Schengen area visa-free from the start of 2010.
European Commission recommendation to allow citizens of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia Schengen visa-free travel from January 2010 welcomed by those countries, but disappointment in Bosnia and Kosovo as they are left out.
Citizens of the three Western Balkans countries with biometric passports will be able to travel to the Schengen countries visa-free, according to a proposal approved by the European Commission on July 15 2009.
The European Commission will on July 14 include Serbia, but not Kosovo, among the countries for which Schengen visa area access will be liberalised.
Belgrade believes that The Netherlands is ready to reconsider its opposition to implementing Serbia’s trade and aid deal.
Western Balkans countries that meet criteria should be Schengen visa-exempt, EU ministers say; European Commission vows legislation before summer break
Meeting on June 4 to discuss calendar of admittance of Bulgaria and five other states to visa-free zone – if all requirements are fulfilled.
Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann, during a meeting with the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels has addressed the issue of combating and tacking crime in the schengen zone, due to an escallating crime wave in the country
Assessing the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy and its Eastern Partnership
With Bulgaria angered by what it sees as Macedonia’s territorial claims, some say that Sofia should use EU membership hopes as leverage against Skopje; but minister for Bulgarians abroad Bozhidar Dimitrov says Macedonia’s elite does not really want the country in the EU.
Greek prime minister George Papandreou and his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski met for more than an hour in Brussels, agreeing that it was essential to find a solution to the dispute over the name Macedonia.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on October 28 that it reached a "staff-level agreement" to lend Moldova the equivalent of $588 million over a period of three years.
Belgrade and the International Monetary Fund have agreed ‘informally’ that Serbia’s 2010 budget deficit should be about four per cent, prime minister Mirko Cvetkovic has said.
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I want to emphasize that personally, I am going to receive the new biometric Serbian Passport (even though I am Albanian Kosovar).
As far as I know, EU does not have any legal base to exclude Albanian Kosovars holding Serbian Passports from process of visa liberalization,
In case if they will exclude Kosovar Albanian without a firm legal base -I am preparing necessary steps to present this issue in highest international courts and present an indictment towards EU commission for discrimination of human rights of same nationality by passport.
I am ready to collaborate with all International NGO and Medias to support my issue towards EU liberalization process Discrimination.
Best regards,
mailto:r_rimi@hotmail.com
Yeah Illyricum, I forgot you guys are the greatest power in that region.
I thought having all countries in EU was meant to unite Europe, why then fragmant it by every part having their own Schengen?
Agree with Spela
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a very good idea..a bit too advanced for the Balkans..but still a good idea
because Albanians say so.
Why should Serbia, Macedonia or Montenegro form a "mini-Shengen" for their own citizens? It is a nonsense and the bad taste joke.