Tag: Yugoslavia

Many Serbs feel they are superior in South Eastern Europe and feel offended that Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union first, Hungarian centre-right MEP György Schöpflin (European People's Party), shadow rapporteur on Serbia, told EurActiv in an exclusive interview.

According to reports, Macedonia is close to finding a formula to defuse its long-standing name dispute with Greece, which has prevented the former Yugoslav republic from starting EU accession talks and has kept it outside the NATO alliance.

A police operation aimed at locating documentation needed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a success, the Croatian Police Directorate announced yesterday (10 December). If confirmed, the findings may greatly help Croatia's EU accession bid, experts said.

The UN prosecutor said the EU faced the difficult choice of integrating the Western Balkans without war crime suspects jailed or waiting decades for true peace to be established.

The Spanish Presidency fulfilled the enlargement road map by opening negotiations on agriculture on 28 June.

Yugoslav leaders agreed on a historic deal on 14 March, creating a new structure and renaming the federation into Serbia and Montenegro.

The EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, has called on the Montenegrin President, Milo Djukanovic, to preserve the union of Serbia and Montenegro.

The European Commission has adopted a five-year strategic framework for its financial assistance to Yugoslavia. Under the new strategy, Yugoslavia will receive 960 million euro in EU aid over the first three years (2002-2004).

The EU-Yugoslavia Consultative Task Force met for the second time on 6 November in Belgrade to discuss Yugoslavia's preparations to participate in the EU Stabilisation and Association process for the Balkans. The EU and Yugoslavia opened talks on 23 July 2001 that may lead to Yugoslavia's conclusion of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement and give the country the prospect of EU membership.

Dragisa Pesic, the new Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, presented his cabinet to the parliament in Belgrade on 24 July. In his inaugural speech, Mr Pesic insisted on the necessity of preserving the existence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) despite separatist threats. The new government intends to set up a platform on the redefinition of relations between Serbia and Montenegro within the FRY.

Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has appointed former finance minister Dragisa Pesic as prime minister and asked him to form a new federal government. The previous government resigned at the end of June in protest against Slobodan Milosevic's extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Yugoslav President Kostunica talks to Serbian and Montenegrin coalition partners to set up new government and avert political crisis

Milosevic calls UN war crimes tribunal "illegal" and refuses to cooperate

Yugoslav government extradites former president Milosevic to UN War Crimes Tribunal in exchange for US reconstruction aid

EU delegation visits Belgrade to prepare talks on a stabilisation and association agreement with Yugoslavia

EU foreign ministers urge Serbia and Montenegro to decide on new constitutional arrangement within federal framework

Five successor states of the former Yugoslavia agree to resume talks on sharing the assets and debts.

Yugoslav President Kostunica has made a plea for his country to become member of the European Union

Yugoslavia joins the Balkan Stability Pact, reclaiming its place in the international community after the downfall of Milosevic.

European foreign ministers on Monday agreed to lift some of the sanctions against the new Serbia of President Vojislav Kostunica

The Yugoslav opposition refuses to enter a second round in the Presidential elections

Both candidates in the Yugoslav presidential elections claim victory.