Sun, Nov 22 2009
Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU.

Gorenje is the most prominent Slovenian manufacturer of home electric appliances. Currently, within the Gorenje family there are 83 affiliated companies, 59 of which are outside Slovenia.
Deal opens the way for Croatia’s accession negotiations with the European Union.
Croatia’s new prime minister Jadranka Kosor moves against her country’s growing financial crisis and reaches out to resolve its border dispute with Slovenia
The Czech presidency was placed within a very complicated context, both internationally with the economic crisis on a surge and unsettled issues inside the EU, including the future of the Lisbon Treaty, as well as internally with a fragile support of the government eventually breaking up and paving the way for the caretaker government to take over. Despite this, the presidency managed to deliver on many of its priorities, albeit not in a way and to the extent that it was hoping for.
Czech EU presidency says that efforts to resolve Croatia-Slovenia border dispute continue to fail and no new accession negotiation chapters can be dealt with.
'Strong conviction' that agreement on proceeding with negotiations could be within reach, European Union says.
Welcomed by the UK government, France and Germany, as well as the US, the naming of Belgium’s Herman van Rompuy as European Council President and Catherine Ashton as foreign policy chief has caused misgivings in some circles, including Turkey which believes that Van Rompuy will oppose Turkish membership of the bloc.
The dinner meeting of EU leaders to decide on the European Council President and the bloc’s new foreign minister and head of secretariat could take a few hours or all night, says host Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden’s prime minister.
Russia and the European Union have agreed on an early warning system if another natural gas cutoff looms. Some say that Bulgaria, among other countries hard-hit by the January 2009 crisis, is now better prepared. Not everyone is convinced.
Five Bulgarian films screened at the World Film Festival in Bangkok.
A complicated game, played partly in the dark, and with elements of everything from poker to tug ‘o war – that’s the way Europe’s leaders will come up with its new European Council President, foreign minister and European Commission.
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Bildt's words are very applicable to Macedonia too....