Politics of Europe

Socialist leader Sergey Stanishev has been authorized to conduct talks on the future EU Commission's policies on behalf of the Party of European Socialists (PES).

Stanishev, who is also the President of PES, renounced his seat as Bulgarian lawmaker earlier this week in order to become MEP. Parliament approved his resignation Friday.

European leaders gathered in Brussels on Friday to try and resolve a damaging row over Jean-Claude Juncker's likely nomination as European Commission president which has left Britain isolated and angry.
      

Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia have signed association agreements with the European Union, on the sidelines of the European Council summit in Brussels.

The association agreement between Moldova and the European Union was initialled at a November 2013 summit meeting in Vilnius of the Eastern Partnership Programme.

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The European Union member states and candidate countries have grown tired of the pace of the enlargement process, above all, the accession of Romania and Bulgaria, which raised a lot of questions about the credibility of the process, Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule told EurActiv Czech Republic in an interview on Thursday.

From EurActiv.

Member states and candidate countries have grown tired of the pace of the enlargement process, above all, the accession of Romania and Bulgaria, which raised a lot of questions about the credibility of the process, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele told EurActiv Czech Republic in an exclusive interview.

"Hague Tribunal did not know what to do with Šešelj"

BELGRADE -- Rasim Ljajić has said the case of Vojislav Šešelj represents "a precedent" for which a great part of the responsibility lies with the Hague Tribunal.

Ljajić, a cabinet minister, also serves as president of the Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.

By Costas Iordanidis

The establishment of a monarch-free democracy was hailed as one of the biggest achievements of the Metapolitefsi era in Greece. It is argued that by changing the regime, the root of evil was removed, staving off the kind of national crises and dramas caused by crown intervention. We won’t argue the point: We are in a crisis right now, so enough said.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Justice Ministry has received an order from The Hague tribunal’s trial chamber in the Vojislav Seselj case inviting the Netherlands as the host country and the Serbian government to provide their comments regarding guarantees concerning Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader’s possible provisional release, the ministry told Tanjug on Wednesday.

Romanian MEP Adina Valean (of the National Liberal Party, PNL) was elected by the European People's Party (EPP) as candidate, alongside other five MEPs, for vice president of the European Parliament (EP).

The other five candidates of the EPP Group are Rainer Wieland, Antonio Tajani, Ramon Valcarcel, Ildiko Gall and Mairead McGuinness.