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BELGRADE - European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur on Serbia David McAllister backed Serbia's EU integration on Thursday, noting that it would be good for the country to open the first negotiation chapters in 2015, primarily those of essential importance.

The volume "Romania's new wave" was released on Tuesday evening in a major event organised in Bucharest. The coordinator Marius Stoian said that this book is "a hub of ideas".

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A senior delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), led by President Sir Suma Chakrabarti, will visit Turkey on Feb. 19-20 to discuss the bank's investment priorities in Turkey with senior government officials, members of the business community and civil society organizations.

Deputy Head Veli A?baba of the main opposition People?s Republican Party (CHP) has announced the party will be giving out purple flags to CHP-run municipalities that fulfill a set of criteria in order to foster gender equality in society during a press conference on Feb. 12.

The tools of cyberwar can be used for political aims as well, head of the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) Marcel Opris said Thursday, adding that such an episode occurred during the 2014 presidential campaign.

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President Rosen Plevneliev said that Bulgaria remains among the most pro-European countries, which is in no small part due to its active civil society.

Plevneliev made this statement during a meeting with Dr. Beate Merk, Bavaria's European Integration and Regional Relations Minister, daily Dnevnik reports.

VIENNA - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, Ambassador Miroslava Beham, has said that enhancing the participation of women in conflict resolution and peace-building efforts is key to achieving security and stability in Ukraine, according to a release from the OSCE.

The process of implementing EU-led Serbia-Kosovo agreements on the Serbian side is marked by a lack of transparency, while much of the decision-making is in the hands of Srpska List, a Kosovo Serbian party backed by the Belgrade government.

These are the results of a report published last week by a Belgrade think tank, the Bureau for Social Research, BIRODI.

VIENNA - Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurtz thinks that the Tuesday verdict by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is an opportunity for a new beginning and a shared interpretation of history.

BELGRADE - Humans Rights House, a network of civil society organisations, has asked the Serbian parliament to investigate and remove for office Minister of Defence Bratislav Gasic, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic and Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin.