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Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

26.05.08: EU starts visa talks with Bosnia - 0 views

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  • The Commission today (26 May) officially launched talks with Bosnia over a visa-free regime, while 16 June was identified as the official day for the eventual signature of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), seen as a key step towards EU membership.
  • Bosnia was the last Balkan country to launch visa talks which will allow Bosnian citizens to travel unhampered within EU countries.  The Commission will outline a roadmap towards full visa liberalisation in the coming weeks, said Commission Vice President Jacques Barrot, who remains in charge of transport until the new Italian Commissioner Antonio Tajani takes over next month when approved by Parliament, after his meeting with the Bosnian Prime Minister Nikola Spiric.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

01.07.08: Bosnia Gets Access to EU Markets - 0 views

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  • Bosnia’s Interim Agreement with the EU has come into force, bringing the country into a new phase of trade relations with Europe and its common market. Until Bosnia’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union – signed on June 16 – is ratified by all EU countries, relations between Bosnia and the bloc will be regulated in accordance with the Interim Agreement.
  • However some economic experts warn that the country’s cumbersome, expensive and ineffective administration is ill prepared to meet all the challenges and risks brought by opening of Bosnia’s market to cheaper and better goods from the EU.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

15.01.08: Kostunica's Choice - 0 views

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shared by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 18 Jan 08 - Cached
  • The next president of Serbia may well be decided based on Prime Minister Kostunica’s endorsement. The country goes to the polls on 20 January at a time when Kosovo is just about to become an independent state supported by the United States and micromanaged by the European Union. At the same time, signs indicate that Serbia will be offered some fast-tracking in its bid for EU membership as a sedative designed to ease the pain caused by the loss of Kosovo.
  • As things stand now, Brussels will invite Belgrade to sign the recently initialled pre-membership Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) a week after the first round of Serbia’s presidential election. The EU does not expect any of the presidential hopefuls to win an outright majority. Polls suggest there will be a second round between old rivals: incumbent President Boris Tadic of the pro-EU Democratic Party and Tomislav Nikolic, who leads the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS). The EU hopes the imminent signing of the pre-membership agreement will give Tadic an edge over Nikolic. And with some 70 percent of Serbs favoring EU membership, a demonstration that the goal is realistic seems like a good strategy on Brussels’ part.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

08.01.08: EU presidency to push for closer ties with Serbia - 0 views

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shared by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 09 Jan 08 - Cached
  • Slovenia, currently at the helm of the European Union, is set to push for signature of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) - the first step to EU membership - with Belgrade in January.
  • Mr Rupel also announced the EU bloc would set up a special "task force" aimed at helping Serbia to speed up its progress towards the agreement, including the country's "even greater cooperation" with the International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
  • Serbia's situation has been further politically complicated by the upcoming presidential race.
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  • The EU is now setting its hopes on the re-election of current president Boris Tadic from the pro-European Democratic Party, but it is expected that he will be competing neck-and-neck with Tomislav Nikolic, vice-president of the Serbian Radical Party, the main opposition force.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

04.01.08: EU must choose between Serbia and Kosovo, Belgrade says - 0 views

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shared by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 04 Jan 08 - Cached
  • Serbia is stepping up its resistance towards the idea of Kosovo becoming independent, with the country's prime minister Vojislav Kostunica sending a clear warning to the European Union - either it backs Belgrade or Pristina.
  • "The EU must choose...whether it will sign a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia or, under the United States' pressure, send a mission to implement [a plan for] supervised independence of Kosovo, snatching part of Serbia's territory", the statement says.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

12.02.07: EU ready to restart SAA-talks with Serbia - 0 views

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shared by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 11 May 07 - Cached
  • The EU on Monday (12 February) gave its clearest signal yet that it is ready to restart integration talks with Serbia before Belgrade hands over top war crimes fugitives such as Ratko Mladic.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

04.06.07: Grünes Licht für Assoziierungsverhandlungen mit Serbien - 0 views

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shared by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 20 Jun 07 - Cached
  • Die Kommission hat ihre Zustimmung für die Wiederaufnahme der Gespräche mit Serbien über einen Stabilisierungs- und Assoziierungsvertrag (SAA) gegeben. In dieser Woche wird in Belgrad der Besuch der Chefanklägerin des Internationalen Gerichthofs für Kriegsverbrechen, Carla del Ponte, erwartet.
  • Die Ankündigung des Kommissars für Erweiterung, Olli Rehn, dass Gespräche mit Serbien wieder eröffnet würden, erfolgte nach der Verhaftung des mutmaßlichen Kriegsverbrechers Zdravko Tolimir am 31. Mai 2007 (EurActiv 31. Mai 2007). Tolimir, einer der engsten Militärberater des Generals Ratko Mladic, wurde dem Internationaler Strafgerichtshof für das ehemalige Jugoslawien (ICTY) in Den Haag übergeben.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

15.03.07: EU warns Bosnia: No SAA without police reform and cooperation with the Hague - 0 views

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  • Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn gave a clear signal to Bosnia and Herzegovina, saying that the EU will not consider closer ties unless the country makes progress on reforming its police and co-operating with the UN War Crimes Tribunal.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

07.03.07: Serbia receives EU membership horizon - 0 views

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  • The EU on Tuesday (6 March) gave a boost to Serbia's stumbling path to eventual membership of the bloc saying the country could become an official candidate as early as next year.

    EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn said that if both sides this spring could resume negotiations on a stabilisation and association agreement (SAA) - the first step on the path to EU membership - then talks on the pact could be concluded in autumn.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

Montenegro-EU-relations: a stocktaking after the May referendum - 0 views

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  • Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 11 May 07
     
    23 June 2006. Comprehensive stocktaking of EU-Montenegro-relations after the referendum in May 2006 (expectations of Podgorica and EU as regards the development of the relations and the negotiations about an SAA)
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

18.10.2006: SAA-Gespräche zwischen EU und Serbien ausgesetzt - 0 views

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  • Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 11 May 07
     
    Die Auslieferung des mutmaßlichen Kriegsverbrechers Ratko Mladic an den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag sei "ausschlaggebend" für die Fortsetzung der vorläufig auf Eis gelegten Verhandlungen mit Serbien, so die finnische Ratspräsidentscha
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

17.02.10: Kosovo optimistic on EU prospects two years after independence - 0 views

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  • Kosovo predicts that it will be an EU member before 2020. But two years after its declaration of independence, its EU integration process is facing problems. Asked by Austrian daily Der Standard in an interview on Tuesday (16 February), whether Kosovo will get into the EU by the end of this decade, its foreign minister, Skender Hyseni, said: "I am optimistic that we will be in before that."
  • The EU is deeply engaged in Kosovo. Its rule-of-law mission, Eulex, is the bloc's largest in the world, with 2,600 people on the ground. Twenty EU countries take part in the International Steering Group, which helps oversee the Kosovo government. It has pumped in over €5 billion of aid since 1999. Despite the non-recognition issue, EU states have opened tentative talks on visa-free travel. A so-called "tracking" group meets around three times a year to pave the way for a pre-accession treaty, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). One of the most frequently cited problems on Kosovo's path to normality is the well-funded separatist ethnic Serb movement in the north of Kosovo. But despite the EU's investment in Pristina, tensions between Eulex and ethnic Albanians are also on the rise.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

19.12.09: Serbia on the road to EU - 0 views

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shared by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 30 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Serbia’s application to join the EU was finally made before X-mas. Early December EU foreign ministers agreed to unblock Serbia’s interim trade agreement, which is part of Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro have been approved by EU for visa-free travel within the EU Schengen area from January 2010. (More in my article “EU’s visa-freedom dividing Balkans”).
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

14.10.09: Progress Report on Serbia - 0 views

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  • The Annual Report notes that Serbia needs to continue its efforts to carry out and implement EU related reforms and to fully commit itself to the path of European Integration. The EU has for its part shown clear support for these efforts by earmarking substantial financial assistance - €1 billion for the period of 2007-2011 and additional €200 million of micro financial assistance.
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

21.06.11: Montenegro 'could start EU membership talks soon' - 18 views

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shared by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann on 22 Jun 11 - Cached
  • The Hungarian Presidency of the European Union is committed to giving a new impetus to the EU enlargement process and ihopes that a decision will be reached as early as this year on starting EU accession negotiations with Montenegro, Hungary's minister of state for foreign affairs Zsolt Németh said on June 21 2011.Németh was speaking at a news conference after the second meeting of the Stabilisation and Association Council(SAA) held between the EU and Montenegro in Luxembourg.
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