Foreign Policy Committee

AGERPRES correspondent Florentina Peia, reports: Romania's ambassador to France Bogdan Mazuru says an incident involving invitations to President Klaus Iohannis's meeting with the local Romanian community was 'an unfortunate blunder.' On Tuesday, he declared he might be responsible, not guilty about a document attached to email invitations that included offensive comments about the guests.

The Bulgarian Parliament rejected the proposal of the opposition BSP party to discuss the possible limitation of further EU sanctions against Russia on Wednesday.

Last week, the parliament similarly refused to include the discussion of the proposal in its weekly agenda.

The Bulgarian Parliament rejected on Wednesday to include the proposal, which calls for limiting the extension of sanctions against Russia, for discussion in its weekly agenda.

The proposal of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) was first rejected by the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee on January 21, daily Dnevnik reports.

The students behind last year's occupation of Sofia University are organising a protest demanding the resignations of several controversial politicians, who were appointed to high-level positions.

Lawmakers in Bulgaria's Parliament set up twelve permanent Committees on Thursday and are to create the remaining ten on Friday, amid controversy over how seats are allocated.

Most party group Chairmen remained ordinary members of committees, with the exception of Bulgarian Democratic Center (BDC)'s Svetlin Tanchev, who is presiding over the committee on European affairs.

BRUSSELS - The best way to adjust the foreign policy of Western Balkan countries to the EU policy is to open negotiating Chapter 31, which covers the area, as soon as possible, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said on Wednesday.

"Serbia must recognize Kosovo before joining EU"

BERLIN -- German MP from the ranks of the SPD party Dietmar Nietan says Serbia was "not under obligation" to join the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia.

It would be "arrogant" to expect such a thing, he told Deutsche Welle.