Foreign relations of Slovenia

Greek Ambassador Grigorios Vassiloconstandakis: Bulgarian Presidency is Going to Add Specific Value in the European Union's Way Forward

Exclusive interview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) with His Excellency,Mr. Grigorios Vassiloconstandakis , Ambassador of Greece to the Republic of Bulgaria. 

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Zvizdic: Businesses wasting years due to border wait times

SKOPJE - Businesspeople in the region are wasting years due to border wait times, Bosnia and Herzegovina Council of Ministers Chairman Denis Zvizdic said in Skopje at the Summit100 conference of business leaders from southeastern Europe on Tuesday, proposing cluster-based ties among the complementary regional economies.

Hungary Demands Faster EU, NATO Integration of West Balkans

Hungary wants the European Union to speed up integration of the Western Balkans and for NATO to include those countries, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday, quoted by Reuters. 

"Speeding up the accession process is a guarantee of security," Szijjarto said at a news conference also attended by a dozen officials from Central European and Western Balkan countries.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister: Enlargement of the European Union Should Continue with the Western Balkans

''Together with my Romanian counterpart, Teodor Meleşanu, we agreed that the enlargement of the European Union should continue with the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership countries, as it will guarantee the security and stability of the whole continent'', said the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva. 

"Putin doesn't care about Balkans - he's just after EU"

Austrian Balkans expert and former high representative for Bosnia Wolfgang Petritsch says that "foreign influences in the Western Balkans are overestimated."

According to him, Serbia, as the most important country in the region, "sees its future in the EU." In his statement to APA, Petritsch said that the countries of the Western Balkans "must be evaluated individually."

Die Welt: EU wants to create mini-Yugoslavia

Reporting about the Western Balkans Summit in Trieste, German newspaper Die Welt writes that "the EU wants to create a new mini-Yugoslavia in the Balkans."

This is according to Croatia's Index website, that said the summit brought together "the countries of the Western Balkans, as well as the leaders of Germany, France and Italy, and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic."

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