The European Commission will propose next week to allow citizens of Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia to travel to the bloc without visas from the start of next year, the EU justice commissioner said on 9 July.

Montenegro and Macedonia recognized Kosovo yesterday. Coincidentally, this raises the number of countries recognizing to exactly 50. Macedonia and Montenegro are small countries, but they have outsized importance because (1) they’re neighbors of both Serbia and Kosovo, (2) they’re EU-members-to-be, and (3) they’re former Yugoslav Republics. So while this is no surprise, it’...

Western pressure is growing for Macedonia and Greece to accept a compromise over their 17-year-long name dispute, which has prevented the small nation from joining NATO and advancing on its path to EU integration.

The Swedish EU Presidency welcomed on Saturday (17 October) the resolution of the border dispute and the establishment of diplomatic relations between Macedonia and Kosovo. Both Serbia and Russia are at odds with the decision, with Moscow warning that no Kosovo-related issue can be decided without Belgrade's consent.

EU foreign ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on Monday (25 October), are expected to finally unblock Serbia's association process, which has been stalled for years over the Netherlands' insistence on seeing war criminal Ratko Mladić brought to justice.

The European Commission adopts a recommendation granting visa-free travel around most of Europe for the 10m citizens of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro

Link to the betting market What words will he use in Wednesday’s Congress speech Ever eager to tempt us to part with our money Ladbrokes have just introduced a market on the words that Gord will us in his speech to Congress in Washington on Wednesday. On the face of it this should be easy. Brown is not

Banks are also holding more cash and US corporations are postponing decisions due to uncertainty about where to invest cash amid fears that a failure to raise the debt ceiling would trigger a credit rating downgrade

I am in The Hague, awaiting the arrival of that white-bearded practitioner of alternative medicine and accused war criminal, Radovan Karadzic. Would he be under arrest without the soft power and diplomacy of the European Union? And what does his arrest say about Serbia today? Is it the lure of one day possibly joining the EU that has led Serbia to deliver up the man who is just a few notches off t...

As optimism mounts ahead of the arrival tomorrow (4 November) in Belgrade of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Serbia's President Boris Tadić said it is possible that his country might submit its EU membership application before the end of the year.