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Bucharest, Jan 10 /Agerpres/ - "In Romania I feel like at home," said, on Thursday evening, in Bucharest, the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, at the inauguration ceremony of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union at the Romanian Athenaeum.

Romania's President Klaus Iohannis will be attending an informal meeting of the European Council in Brussels on Friday, according to the Presidential Administration.

Featuring on the agenda of the meeting are negotiations over the post-2020 multiannual financial framework, as well as institutional aspects of the European Union.

European Union lawmakers lifted the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on March 2 for tweeting pictures of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) violence.

BELGRADE - The quality of food could be the key trump card for Serbia in exports because our country can hardly contest mass production, cheap products and contemporary technologies in the strong competition on the global market, Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS - The EU expects Serbia to preserve its pro-European orientation after the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Serbia, said Maja Kocijancic as spokesperson of High EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton.

National Liberal Party (PNL) MEP Norica Nicolai has joined the ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) group of the European Parliament.

The joining took place during a meeting of the ALDE group taking place in the Brussels headquarters of the European legislature.

BELGRADE - The delegation of the School for Professional Development of the Italian police which is staying in Serbia on a study visit will exchange experiences with representatives of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, National Assembly, as well as operative and training units of the Serbian police.

"Serbia will meet conditions for EU accession"

BELGRADE -- Serbia will meet all the conditions for EU accession, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić stated on Thursday in the talks with Swiss President Didier Burkhalter.

Burkhalter is also his country's foreign minister and chairman of the OSCE.

BELGRADE - Serbia will meet all the conditions for EU accession, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic stated on Thursday in the talks with Didier Burkhalter, president of the Swiss Confederation and the head of the country's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.