ANNOUNCEMENT: Tirana, May 13, 2024 – Applications are open for the EU Investigative Journalism Award 2024, which the European Union will reward the best stories created in Albania during the previous calendar year. The prize fund for our country is 10,000 euros, and the recognition is awarded within the project “Strengthening quality journalism in the…
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EU diplomats convene in Brussels
Brussel 13.11.2023 The Foreign Affairs Council takes place over two days and be chaired by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell. The EU Foreign Affairs Ministers will discuss the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the latest developments concerning Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Council will then exchange views on the…
Borrell on W.Balkans European perspective
At aprrival to the Euorpean Council for the EU-Western Balkans informal meeting the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell said he hoped that some of Western Balkans countries could become members of the EU before the end of his mandate. “Today is another step on the European perspective for the Balkan countries. We are going to…
External Action Service proposes €123 bln budget
“We now propose a new instrument that will cover pretty much the whole world – it is called the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI). It will be comprehensive in geographic and thematic terms. A few exceptions are, obviously, the candidate and potential candidate countries for membership to the European Union and the overseas countries…
EU encourages Bosnia and Herzegovina to fight radicalization
The Stabilisation and Association Council (SA Council) between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union held its second meeting on 10 July 2017. The SA Council welcomed Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU perspective as a single, united and sovereign country. It noted the progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its EU integration process following the country’s…
Serbia opens new chapters
BRUSSELS – today Serbia opened two new chapters in its EU accession talks – Chapters 20 (enterprise and industrial policy) and 26 (education and culture) – at an EU-Serbia Intergovernmental Conference (IGC). This was the fifth EU-Serbia IGC – Serbia has to date opened eight, and temporarily closed two, out of the total 35 negotiation…