Negotiation

David McAllister has urged EU to acknowledge the progress in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue by opening the first chapters in the negotiation process with Serbia.

It is time to open the negotiation chapters with Serbia, the EP rapporteur for Serbia said in a brief speech at the EP plenary session in Strasbourg on Monday.

Negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program will continue until the end of the day on Friday.

The talks between representatives of Iran and the rest of the Great powers will continue in Viena.

Months after the negotiations and preliminary agreement in April, discussions are still ongoing and will be aimed at the full lift of economic sanctions against Iran.

The Vice President of the Greek Parliament and SYRIZA MP, Alexis Mitropoulos warned the party was mutating into a neo-liberal party and was being forced to implement a suffocating and anti-social platform. Speaking before the party’s meeting Friday, Mitropoulos did not hold back, as he unleashed harsh criticism against the government.

The negotiations with the institutions are moved to Brussels, since tonight’s Brussels group will see the Houliarakis team as well as the full complement of Greek and foreign technical teams that have been in negotiations for months now.

Meanwhile, around 6pm in the afternoon, the Political Negotiation Team under Yanis Varoufakis will be meeting in the Finance Ministry.

At the Intergovernmental Conference on Tuesday in Brussels, Montenegro will start negotiations with the European Union on Chapters 18 and 28, dealing with statistics regulation and consumer and health protections.

Along with these, other two chapters will be opened for the first time, namely Chapter 29 on customs union and Chapter 33 on financial and budgetary provisions.

One of the biggest mistakes Greece repeatedly makes when holding international level talks is believing that the mediators and negotiators involved are all playing some kind of game and serving their own nefarious needs. What this results in is personal attacks being launched against the interlocutors, sometimes slanderous.

The negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, that is, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, regarding Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was extended on Monday for another seven months, just hours before the deadline.

Independent presidential candidate Teodor Melescanu said on Sunday in Oradea that the most difficult prerogative he will have as president will be to play the part of the mediator, but to harmonize various interests will also be his greatest satisfaction.

Government to hold EU integration-themed sessions

BELGRADE -- The next government of Serbia will every two weeks hold sessions on the country's path towards the EU, chief negotiator Tanja Miščević has announced.

The goal of this is "to speed up the integration process and achieve the objective of opening the first negotiation chapters by the end of June."

BELGRADE - The next government of Serbia will every two weeks hold sessions on the country's path towards the EU to speed up the integration process and achieve the objective of opening the first negotiation chapters by the end of June, Serbia's chief EU negotiator Tanja Miscevic has announced.