Neighbours & Partners

Long road to cohabitation for Serbia?

Article | May 22, 2012 - 4:08pm

Comment | Tomislav Nikolić

Tomislav Nikolić

Nikolic won in Serbia, now what?

Article | May 21, 2012 - 2:17pm

Newly-elected Serbian president, Tomislav Nikolić, announced in his victory speech that Serbia will continue its progress towards the EU.

Comment | SNS

SNS

Nationalist candidate wins elections in Serbia [BREAKING]

Article | May 20, 2012 - 10:01pm

Comment | Tomislav Nikolić

Tomislav Nikolić

Novartis to probe drug approval allegations

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:28pm

Swiss drugmaker Novartis said it would investigate alleged drug approval irregularities after an Indian parliamentary report found the country's regulator colluded with pharmaceutical firms to speed up approval procedures, Swiss Info reported.

Comment | Pharmacology

Pharmacology

Employers reluctant to hire smokers

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:25pm

An increasing number of Norwegian employers will only hire non-smokers. The Minister of Health, Anne Grete Strom-Erichsen supports their decision, Norway Post reported.

Comment | Tobacco control

Tobacco control

Reports of money laundering up 40%

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:23pm

The Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS) registered a significant increase in the number of incoming suspicious activity reports (SARs) in 2011. MROS received a total of 1,625 SARs, an increase of 40% over 2010.

Comment | Zoonoses

Zoonoses

Final face-off for Tadić and Nikolić

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:21pm

The second round of Serbian presidential elections will take place on 20 May and the two contenders – the incumbent president Boris Tadić and the opposition leader Tomislav Nikolić – faced each other in a televised debate on 16 May.

Comment | Vojislav Ko

Vojislav Ko

Albania's accession progress looks bright

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:19pm

Albania’s application for membership to the European Union on 28 April 2009 was an important landmark for a country that 20 years ago had emerged from a communist rule as one of the poorest, most isolated, most repressive and most inscrutable in Europe.

Comment | Politics

Politics

Inzko reports on country's progress

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:16pm

International High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, presented on 15 May his bi-annual report on the implementation of the Dayton peace accords to the UN Security Council.

Comment | Valentin Inzko

Valentin Inzko

IMF calls for stabilisation and reform in Belarus

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:09pm

After completing a mission to Belarus, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on Minsk to commit to a “consistent strategy based on stabilisation and reform” to secure financial aid.

Comment | Minsk

Minsk

ByuT keeps protesting maltreatment of Tymoshenko

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:07pm

The health of the former Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko continues to be extremely difficult, the leader of the opposition faction ByuT (Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko) Andriy Kozhemyakin, told Ukraine’s Parliament on 17 May.

Comment | Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Tymoshenko

Shanghai Group focuses on Afghanistan

Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:05pm

BEIJING - The list of countries which decided to join, albeit as observers or just dialogue partners, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), is increasing each time. So this year Afghanistan and Turkey decided to get into the so-called "Shanghai Five", which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Comment | York

York