Oliver Varhelyi

Officials from the European Union and Turkey will restart talks next week on modernizing a customs union between the two sides, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday.

Türkiye and the European Union have agreed to work on visa facilitation for Turkish businessmen and students, and on upgrading the customs union, the Turkish foreign minister has said, citing the mutual understanding between Ankara and Brussels to further develop ties.

European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas has expressed "serious concern" over the continued incarceration by the Albanian authorities of an ethnic-Greek official who was elected mayor of Himare in May.

According to "Reporters", his deputy Besnik Bislimi will go in his place.
An informal meeting of regional leaders is being held in Tirana, which is attended by European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Oliver Varhelyi.

BRUSSELS - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss current topics, including mechanisms for de-escalating violence in Kosovo-Metohija.

BRUSSELS - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Tuesday she had had a constructive discussion with EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi about economic projects.

"We discussed projects that affect regional progress and economic development, the importance of mutual cooperation, and the large upcoming Digital Europe program," Brnabic wrote on Twitter.

According to the Service's figures, 3,433 people have been 'readmitted' since 2017, the year that migrants and refugees mainly from the Middle East, Asia and Africa began crossing Bosnia in any great numbers. That does not include the thousands returned illegally, so-called 'pushbacks' across the border that fly in the face of the internationally-guaranteed right to seek asylum.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic will attend a working lunch with EU and Western Balkan FM in Brussels on Monday.

According to a statement released by the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the working lunch will be held on the margins of an EU Council of Foreign Affairs meeting.

The delegation's findings are unlikely to speed up Hungary's access to the frozen EU funds, with Freund tweeting: "Question: When will Hungary get full access to EU funding again?

The Head of State, Rumen Radev, expressed concern to the Commissioner for Neighborhood Affairs and EU Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, about the lack of progress on the issue of changing the Constitution of the Republic of North Macedonia and the inclusion of Bulgarians as a constituent part of the nation-building peoples.