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The third round of trilogue negotiations on the EU Covid-19 certificate regulation, which ended in the early hours of Wednesday, left some open questions, but the desire of the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission is for a deal to be reached by the end of this week. The talks will continue on Thursday.

The town of Eleusis in west Attica has officially been named cultural capital of Europe for 2021. The announcement was made by the European Parliament, which approved the list of countries with 606 votes form, 54 against and 6 abstentions, that will host the cultural capitals from 2021 to 2023.

"The next Bulgarian EU Commissioner must be a woman. These are the expectations of the European Commission and the European Parliament. It will be good, if it is a EP member, this means experience in the European institutions", commented the Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev on BNR.

On May 9, the Europe Day, at 21:30 p.m. the Information Desk of the European Parliament for Bulgaria and the European Commission in Bulgaria will present a sound and luminous 3D mapping show "Europe - your home".

The place will be at "Alexander I" square on the building of the National gallery.

The European Parliament has recommended to the European Commission a temporary freeze of accession negotiations with Turkey. The resolution was approved overwhelmingly with 479 "yes" votes. Some say that the resolution is all bark and no bite, and that the EP is just trying to be important. I don't think so.

Official comments on idea of annulling verdict against Thaci

BELGRADE -- "Somebody should show an interest in the crimes committed against Serbs in the province (Kosovo)," says Serbian Government Kosovo Office Director Marko Djuric.

EP official on Rama's statement, Russia

BELGRADE -- EP official Eduard Kukan says that he "got nervous" when he "heard what Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said about the unification of Kosovo and Albania."

BELGRADE - Jadranka Joksimovic, international secretary of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), conferred in Brussels on Wednesday with President of the European People's Party (EPP) Joseph Daul on concrete steps the SNS needs to take to the EPP membership.

BRUSSELS - Serbia and Croatia should accept the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) decision on their mutual genocide lawsuits and turn to building a lasting reconciliation, said Eduard Kukan, chairman of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Countries of South East Europe.

STRASBOURG - The European Parliament passed on Thursday a resolution on leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj after a one-hour debate, calling on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to re-examine the existence of requirements for provisional release under new circumstances, and urging the Serbian authorities to distance themselves from his st