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World Conservatives Hold Solidarity Meeting in Bosnia

An international alliance of conservative parties, the International Democratic Union, IDU, held the meeting of its Executive Committee and Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs in Bosnia on Monday, in a sign of support to its local member parties and to the new EU plan for the country.

"Trepca should not be condition for dialogue"

BELGRADE -- The EP rapporteur for Serbia has said he "hopes the first chapters in the EU-Serbia negotiating process would be opened during the first six months of 2015."

McAllister hopes first chapters will be opened before July

BRUSSELS - European Parliament Raporteur for Serbia David McAllister expressed the hope in Brussels Monday that the first chapters in the negotiating process between Serbia and the EU would be opened during the first six months of 2015.

Bosnia Fears Renewed Floods After Heavy Rains

More than 100 houses were inundated by water across central Bosnia on Sunday and Monday after several days of heavy rains and melting snow, sparking public concerns about a possible repeat of last year's flood disaster in the country.

Officials however urged calm, stressing that although most of Bosnia's rivers were on the rise, they were still far from critical levels.

Dodik Urged to Quit Bosnian Serb Party Leadership

Rajko Vasic, former general secretary of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, rocked Bosnia's political scene over the weekend with a blog post that urged the party's leader Milorad Dodik to step down.

Rifles Used in Charlie Hebdo Attacks 'Could Be from Bulgaria or Romania'

The assault rifles used by the Kouachi brothers, who killed 12 people in an attack on Chalie Hebdo's offices in Paris, could have come from Bulgaria and Romania, media reports suggest.

Cherif and Said Kouachi used the AKS-74 Kalashnikov, which have been produced only by these two countries since 1989.

Montenegro 'Failing to Protect Its Airspace'

The Montenegrin Army's air force does not have adequate equipment or enough capacity to control the country's skies, even though airspace protection is one of the priorities Podgorica's NATO integration process, the Centre for Democratic Transition watchdog claimed.

Grabar Kitarovic wants Seselj sentenced as soon as possible

ZAGREB - Croatia's new president Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic has asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take any action necessary, including calling a meeting of the UN Security Council, to make sure that head of the Serbian Radical Party Vojislav Seselj was taken back into the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and sentenced as soon as possible.

Bosnian Leaders Ponder New EU Declaration

After last week's visit by the German and British foreign ministers, Bosnian leaders are mulling over a new text for the declaration that is supposed to set in motion a new EU plan for the troubled country, although two Serb political blocs are still in dispute over the issue.

Balkan media unites in condemning Paris attacks

Regional media unites, calling the recent terrorism in Paris an attack on freedom of expression.

Journalists in the region united to condemn the recent terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. [AFP]

Veselinovic: Croatian president's statement - dangerous

BELGRADE - Chairman of the Serbian Parliament's Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Janko Veselinovic said Saturday that a recent statement by the newly elected Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, in which she said that all Serbs in Croatia were Croats, was dangerous.

Linta: Grabar Kitarovic's statement is chauvinistic

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta condemned on Friday in the strongest terms the "provocative and chauvinistic" statement by the newly-elected President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic that she considers all citizens of Croatia to be Croats.