Southeastern Europe

BELGRADE - A meeting between Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic and representatives of the lawyers' community at the Bar Association of Serbia ended without an agreement.

The Socialist Alternative Party (PAS) candidate for Presidency, Constantin Rotaru said on Sunday in Ramnicu Valcea (south-western Romania), when outgoing from the polling station that he had voted for a Romania for all Romanians.

The Prodemo Party's candidate for presidential elections, Mirel Mircea Amaritei said that he has voted for a prosperous Romania.

"I have voted for a Romania of prosperity, progress and pro-democracy. Romania, you are Pro today," Amaritei said on Sunday after voting at the "George Enescu" National College of Music.

Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) are nowhere near a solution to the name dispute, the Balkan statelet’s foreign minister, Nikola Poposki, said on Saturday.

Bulgaria expects to receive BGN 700M in funding under the EU's Operational Programme Environment by the end of the year, caretaker Environment Minister Svetlana Zhekova has said.

The sum comprises delayed and suspended payments as well as new payments processed over the past two months, Zhekova told Darik radio station on Saturday.

Russia has cut gas deliveries to Serbia by 28% over the past week, Serbia's Energy Minister Aleksandar Antic has said.

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The Jihadist International is a growing phenomenon. Like the Communist International of the early 20th Century, this movement feeds on domestic inequality, and contrary to popular perception, its breeding ground is also in the West. The front-lines of the Jihadist International are made up of fighters foreign to our region.

Romania has managed to keep the number of inhabitants in rural areas, to provide the opportunity to young people to return to and work in their village, Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Daniel Constantin told Friday's conference 'Romanian Organic Forum,' held within the Indagra 2014 trade fair.

The family of three murder victims called for a retrial after allegations that an EU rule-of-law mission judge in Kosovo took a bribe to clear one of the suspects.

BELGRADE - President of the Republic of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov arrived on an official visit to Serbia on Friday at the invitation of his Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolic.

President Ivanov received a ceremonial welcome in front of the Palace of Serbia, and the meeting between the two presidents will be followed by the talks between the two countries' delegations.