Bulgaria has, for the fist time since becoming an EU member ten years ago, taken over the organization's six-month rotating presidency.

The Western Balkans' EU perspective has been states as one of Sofia's priorities.

Great Britain was drafting a UN resolution on Srebrenica without even informing Serbia about it, Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said.

According to the daily Blic, Dacic "in this way explained his recent statement that big countries are not Serbia's friends and that there are no friendships in politics."

Only a blind person could believe that problems in the Balkans are over, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said late on Tuesday.

The regional conflict will last until the cause of those problems have been found - if you sweep all the problems under the carpet, you will trip over that carpet, Dacic told a talk show broadcast on TV Happy.

Belgrade and Pristina decide about goals, pace and who participates or mediates in their dialogue about normalizing relations.

This stems from the explanation Beta received from sources in the European External Action Service (EEAS).

Russia wants to include Serbia in the free trade zone of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Vladimir Putin has said, according to RT.

This could open new opportunities for development of business links, Putin said, and added that discussions were underway.

Te broadcaster paid special attention to Putin's meeting in the Kremlin earlier this week with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic.

Kosovo Interior Minister Flamur Sefaj received an official announcement that Europol decided to start co-operation with Kosovo, the ministry announced, reports B92 today.

Sefaj met with Deputy Director of the EU Security Council Olivier Onidi, who told him that at the meeting of the Steering Committee, Europol decided that Kosovo "should be on the list of priorities" of the member states of that organization, and that Europol will conclude a working agreement with Kosovo, B92 reports.

US expert on the Balkans Daniel Serwer has commented on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) once again listing the Balkans as a stability problem.

Serwer spoke for the N1 broadcaster in Bosnia-Herzegovina, after the US NGO published its "Preventive Priorities Survey 2017."

Serwer said that he did not think the document should make people in the Balkans "more afraid than they already are."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is in Paris this Tuesday for the climate change summit.

Speaking for RTS, he commented on Monday's opening of two new two chapters in Serbia's EU membership negotiations.

Vucic sees participation in the summit as an opportunity to meet with the French president who is at the moment one of the two most important political figures in Europe and is influential in the world.

A New York Times reporter saw a car that transported journalists Ranko Perenic and Djuro Slavuj, kidnapped in Kosovo in 1998.

This is according to the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS), that is quoting Milivoje Mihajlovic, a former Radio Pristina editor and head of the Media Center in this town, that was "a key source of information for all media in 1998 and 1999 in Kosovo".

The Trepca mining and metallurgical complex in Kosovo is this Thursday marking its 90th anniversary.

And the head of state, Aleksandar Vucic, said that Serbia would fight for that company "uncompromisingly."