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Vucic regrets support for Milosevic

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said for Italian "Republica" that he regrets the fact that he stood by Slobodan Milosevic in the past, and admitted that he made a plenty of mistakes. Now he wants to turn a new page for the sake of "European Serbia".

"I felt I had to say that I made a mistake. The desire to restart Serbia made me admit my mistakes," said Vucic.

Merkel: I will not abandon Greece and Italy on refugee crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that the EU cannot abandon Greece and Italy on the refugee crisis, after her meeting with Italian Prime Minister Mateo Renzi. Merkel underlined that that ever EU member states should realise that European exterior borders were common and demonstrate solidarity. ‘I will do everything I can to keep the borders open’, Merkel said.

Italian PM Mateo Renzi tells Germany to mind its own business

Italian PM Mateo Renzi unleashed some tough criticism against Austria and Germany, during an interview on Italian TV. Renzi blasted the head of the German central bank ‘Deutsche Bundesbank’, Jens Weidmann, underlining that the ‘time they were lecturing us us is over’. ‘The director has so many problems to be concerned with.

Greek Pres. Pavlopoulos: Debt relief imperative

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos called for solidarity within the ranks of the EU on the refugee crisis in an exclusive interview to Italian newspaper ‘Il Messagero’. He dubbed the proposal put forward by Italian PM Mateo Renzi for the EU to fund African countries to effectively guard their borders ‘very interesting and realistic’.

Hit by migrants, 'European values' are crumbling

The current president of Italy's chamber of deputies, Laura Boldrini, knows a lot about refugees. Before she took over her latest public office during Italian Prime Minister Mateo Renzi's term in 2013, she was the spokesperson for the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees and dealt with the crisis of refugees and migrants flooding her country.

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