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Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has called on Brussels to lift the EU's Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification (CVM) introduced the country amid its EU accession in 2007.

"Serbia ready to open negotiating chapters"

BELGRADE -- Serbia's chief negotiator with the EU Tanja Miscevic has said that Serbia is ready for the opening of negotiating chapters with the EU, including chapter 35.

The Chairman of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin said that the West had treated Bulgaria as a colony in case of the South Stream pipeline, not respecting the country's economic interests.

"First obligations from agreement, then chapter 35"

BELGRADE -- Germany will give its consent for the opening of Chapter 35 only after the obligations deriving from the Brussels agreement are fulfilled.

Germany also wants Serbia to clearly demonstrate its willingness to continue the dialogue with Pristina, the German embassy in Belgrade released on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Germany will give its consent for the opening of Chapter 35 only after the obligations deriving from the Brussels agreement are fulfilled and after Serbia clearly demonstrates its willingness to continue the dialogue with Pristina, the German Embassy in Belgrade released on Thursday.

"Germans want Kosovo removed from Constitution"

BELGRADE -- Chapter 35 in Serbia's negotiations for EU membership "will not be closed until the Serbian Constitution is harmonized with the Brussels agreement (on Kosovo)."

RIGA - Latvia will try to ensure that some chapters in Serbia's EU accession talks are opened during its EU Presidency, starting on January 1, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said Wednesday after a meeting with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic.

Dacic met in Riga with Latvia's Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma, Parliament Speaker Inara Murniece and the foreign minister.

GAZPROM: "Now Europe should build the pipeline"

- I wouldn't say agreement about "South stream" was reached yesterday in Brussels, athough it was the main subject of the meeting. Project will be possible when political agreement between EU and Russia is reached -Zorana Mihajlović, Deputy Prime Minister stated for "Blic."

Serbia "can be proud of results achieved in 2014"

BELGRADE -- Serbia can be proud of the results it has achieved in 2014, the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, Michael Davenport, said on Wednesday.

He added that " intensive preparations are under way" to open the first EU membership negotiation chapters "in the coming months."

BELGRADE - Serbia can be proud of the results it has achieved in 2014 and intensive preparations are under way to open the first negotiation chapters in the coming months, the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, Michael Davenport, said on Wednesday.