Brussels

Moscow parade participation "contrary to EU integration"

BRUSSELS, BELGRADE -- Eduard Kukan says Serbian soldiers' participation in the Victory Day military parade in Moscow stood in contrast to the country's EU integration ambitions.

Technical teams resumed their efforts in Athens on Tuesday, ahead of the Euro Working Group discussion set to begin at 4 p.m. on Wednesday and continue on Thursday. The negotiations at the meeting are based on a revised set of reforms that Greece sent to its international creditors last week.

BRUSSELS - Chair of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Serbia Eduard Kukan said Tuesday that Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic's decision to send Serbian soldiers to the military parade in Moscow on May 9 was in contrast to the country's European integration ambitions.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated on Tuesday that Serbia does not intend to change its stand concerning non-recognition of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) and will not accept continuous setting of new conditions for EU accession.

Outspoken Greek DM Panos Kammenos launched his latest political "rocket" at Europe on Tuesday by warning that if creditors continue their "bullying" then Greece may not being able to control its borders and "keep Jihadis" out of the continent.

Washington wishes to play the role of an ?honest broker? in Greek government negotiations with the country's foreign lenders so that a solution can be reached as soon as possible, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.

PM: We did all we could, it's now up to EU

BELGRADE -- The opening of chapters in Serbia's accession negotiations with the EU "depends on our European partners," says Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

Serbia, for its part, did all that it could, according to him.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that it was up the EU partners when the chapterst of the accession talks would be opened, and that Serbia had done all it could.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to hold a European Union membership referendum if he is re-elected next month would lead to an intense period of uncertainty for businesses, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will say on April 7.
   

"Church icons stolen in Kosovo sold to finance terrorism"

BELGRADE -- Some of the icons pillaged from the 35 Serbian Orthodox churches targeted in Kosovo in March 2004 have been sold in the black market.

The violence in Kosovo, known in Serbia as "the March pogrom," was organized by ethnic Albanians and targeted Serbs, their property, and holy places.