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EU Reports On Serbia, Kosovo Delayed

April 16, 2013

by RFE/RL

BRUSSELS -- The European Commission has delayed the release of reports on progress made by Serbia and Kosovo in their bids for closer ties with the bloc.

The reports had been scheduled to be released on April 16.

In a statement, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said the reports were not adopted since the EU's foreign-policy chief, Catherine Ashton, had invited the two countries' prime ministers to another round of EU-brokered talks in Brussels on April 17.

Ashton had declared the talks over after Serbia last week rejected an EU-brokered plan for normalizing ties.

Kosovo has an ethnic Albanian majority, but has a Serbian-majority pocket in the north.

Serbia has rejected Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence, continuing to regard it as a Serbian province.

In a report on Macedonia on April 16, the European Commission said progress had been made despite political tensions and noted "new momentum" in efforts to resolve a long-running issue with Greece over Macedonia's name.

With reporting by Reuters and dpa

Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/eu-reports-serbia-macedonia/24958695.html

Copyright (c) 2013. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.