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"We did much, deserve to open chapters in June"

BRUSSELS -- Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday "Serbia had done much on the EU integration road and deserved to open the first negotiating chapters as early as June."

The prime minister made the statement after his meeting in Brussels with European Council President Donald Tusk.

Donald Tusk, the president of the European council stressed in his first interview with European media that a Greek exit from the euro zone, accidental or not, is an "idiotic scenario" that needs to be prevented.

Bulgaria's is well prepared to join the EU's visa-free Schengen zone, European Council President Donald Tusk opined on Thursday.

Former Polish premier Donald Tusk took over as European Council president Dec. 1 promising “ruthless determination” to revive the economy and to defend the EU against both external and internal threats.

The former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is to be inaugurated to the position of President of the European Council at an official handover ceremony today.

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Turkey has welcomed the European Union’s new leadership team, voicing support for Polish Premier Donald Tusk as the next EU president and Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as the new head of the EU’s diplomatic service. Both Tusk and Mogherini are citizens of countries that support Turkey’s EU membership bid.

Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini was appointed on Saturday as the European Union’s new foreign policy chief.

European leaders also chose Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as the new President of the European Council, the current President Herman Van Rompuy announced in tweets at the EU summit in Brussels.

A recording of a restaurant conversation leaked Saturday rocked Poland's center-right government and prompted Prime Minister Tusk to hold a news conference later on Monday.

NATO needs to have a larger presence in eastern Europe in light of the crisis in Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday, quoted by The New York Times.

Tusk is in the Slovak capital Bratislava, to attend the session titled "Visegrad Up: Finding Common Grounds in Times of Crisis" at the 2014 GLOBSEC Security Forum. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Berlin on Friday to discuss the prospects of an "energy union" proposed by Poland.

Tusk has recently reiterated calls for the establishing of a EU-wide union aimed at reducing energy dependence on Russia.