European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs

BRUSSELS - EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said on Wednesday Belgrade and Pristina were urged to engage in dialogue more constructively and implement reached agreements, and noted that this included establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities and normalisation of relations.

"The Black Sea is very important for NATO, we are monitoring the situation there carefully", the Secretary General of the pact, Jens Stoltenberg, told the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs today.

BRUSSELS - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday the impression in Brussels was that Serbia had been the more constructive partner in the most recent round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Ohrid, North Macedonia.

Certainly, everyone expected him to get a grilling by the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). But the Hungarian administration had been assiduous in preparing him for the hearing and Trocsanyi was an avid student.

So optimism was in the air as the European Parliament started vetting candidates to run the EU's executive arm.

The European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, AFET, on Tuesday adopted a highly critical resolution on Moldova, saying it has been "captured by oligarchic interests" and adding that the EU should no longer aid the country at least until after next year's elections.

The European Commision President, Jean-Claude Juncker, apologised on Wednesday to a Romanian MEP for the appearance of the phrase "Moldovan language" on the website of European Commision - calling it a "regrettable administrative error".

As diplomats from Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) prepare to resume talks in Vienna on Wednesday, European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn on Tuesday expressed optimism that the dispute could be resolved in the next two weeks, Kathimerini writes.

As diplomats from Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) prepare to resume talks in Vienna on Wednesday, European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn on Tuesday expressed optimism that the dispute could be resolved in the next two weeks.

As diplomats from Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) prepare to resume talks in Vienna on Wednesday, European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn on Tuesday expressed optimism that the dispute could be resolved in the next two weeks.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva says there are foreign factors in the Western Balkans that have a strong influence on some countries.

According to her, the responsibility for this lies with the European Union because it was not sufficiently engaged in the region.