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Rama will be visiting Serbia on October 22, "a final date, following the invitation of Prime Minister [Aleksanadar] Vucic,” he said during the summit of Western Balkan countries in Berlin.

Rama said that he had many things to discuss with Vucic, because Tirana and Belgrade had much potential to cooperate and work together.

Instead of moving towards stabilization and normalcy, the situation in Ukraine seems to drift from bad to worse, Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said at the end of his meeting this Thursday with Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maia Pandjikidze.

“Turkey is very important to us, because we have the strategic goal to diversify our energy supplies,” Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev told the Bulgarian National Radio. 

Plevneliev is in Turkey to attend the inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as president of the country. 

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel took to Twitter on Thursday to insist that relations between him and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and between the two countries “are perfect” after being on the receiving end of a homophobic tweet from an independent Greek MP.

The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday, saying it was doing everything to secure their release.
      

BERLIN - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met in Berlin Thursday with Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Council of Ministers Vjekoslav Bevanda to discuss further cooperation between the two countries in all fields and their European perspective.

Qatar's state investment fund, Qatari Diar, has pulled out of a project to build a luxury resort in the Przna bay in the coastal town of Tivat.

The "Beyond Horizon" project, which started in 2011, envisaged the construction of five-star villas in a cove with a sandy beach in Krtole, near Tivat, and was worth about 350 million euro.

Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean told the Annual Meeting of the Romanian Diplomacy on Wednesday that the potential generated by the current situation in Ukraine may also be used to readjust the relations between Kiev and Bucharest and pronounced for a climate of 'trust and friendship' between the two states.

EU's Creative Europe programme promotes Balkan culture

The Union allocated 1.5 billion euros for cultural and media projects.

The European Union’s Creative Europe programme is making 1.5 billion euros available to support regional cultural organisations, including cinema, and for translating books into regional languages.

Video of Greek army creates controversy in region