Tue, Feb 09 2010
European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and Serbian president Boris Tadic at the start of their talks in Belgrade on July 22 2009.

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For the Western Balkans and Turkey, the prospect of EU membership has been a factor for stability and societal progress, and for democratic and economic transformation, Enlargement Commissioner says.
‘We know that the work in Bosnia and Herzegovina requires some effort and demands that we are vigilant about the domestic political situation,’ Javier Solana, High Representative for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, said.
Fourteen years after the Dayton Agreement, which ended fighting in the Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina is still a divided country
Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn says that he has met five out of the six goals he set for himself during his five-year term.
Iceland, facing economic meltdown, has voted to apply to join the EU – but membership could take until 2013 and domestic opinion is divided on the move.
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.
Ahead of a visit by the Dutch foreign minister and the July EU ministerial, Belgrade insists it is co-operating with The Hague tribunal. The Dutch are not persuaded.
Countries around the region wrestled with long-standing disputes, traumatic changes, organised crime and corruption, the impact of the global economic crisis, dismissals and resignations of cabinet ministers - and wrestled with each other
Gunter Verheugen: Greek government to take urgent measures and resolve the ongoing border crisis between the countries caused by protesting farmers
Out of favour with her own constituents, Greek agriculture minister Katerina Batzeli is to meet representatives of the farmers blockading the Bulgarian border.
Super-rich have taken huge sums out of the country in the wake of slump and pending deficit reduction measures
In Bucharest, the supreme defence council has agreed to the Obama’s administration proposal and negotiations on details are to follow; the Kremlin says it will comment on February 5.
Voicing their discontent against the Greek government's austerity programme, meant to tackle deficit and public debt, Greek customs officers and tax collectors have gone on strike.
The Greeks seem to be messing up their own case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) - read this:
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/142/14963.pdf
On present showing, the Macedonians (ERYdM now, not FYRom, as the ICJ uses French) will probably win this case. So what will poor Greece do then ?
Voden will soon have its own name. We are going to call it tke land of the great cucumber!!!!!!!
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slavodonia sounds good so how bout it?
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Sorry to pour cold water, "Country with no Name", but a compromise with Greece will indeed be avoided once the EU ban on "single nation veto" comes in, and Republic of Macedonia is admitted under that name.
And for that you have to thank Slovenia, for using the "single nation veto" for so long against Croatia....all other Member States have got pissed off, and the Lisbon Treaty will have a minor amendment accordingly.
Still the name issue as a precondition of FYROm's access to the EU block...
They cannot avoid the compromise with Greece. That's a good point.