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  • Is Europe ready for Serbia? 20 Jul 2008 06:28 GMT
    ... for long-awaited reforms. Cvetkovic’s agenda includes: formal EU candidate status within a year and full membership roughly ... that has lagged behind those in its Balkan neighbours. “Joining the EU will enable Serbia ...

  • We're quick to damn the US but slow to see our own faults 19 Jul 2008 23:35 GMT
    ... not just to Nato, but to the EU as well. It has adapted its doctrines, plans and tactics ... for us to end genocide in the Balkans. The attacks of 9/11 and the stabilisation ...

  • Report: Assailants kill 4 in attack on Turkish village 19 Jul 2008 21:17 GMT
    ... in the southeastern province of Bingol. Irfan Balkanlioglu, the governor for Bingol, said Kurdish rebels ... offensive there. Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist organization. Turkish ...

  • EU Foreign Ministers to discuss Africa, the Middle East and EU-Ukraine relations 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... EU Foreign Ministers to discuss Africa, the Middle ... mandate review after six months of the European Union military operation in the Republic of Chad ... discussed. Other themes will include the Western Balkans, mainly in the light of the situation ...

  • PM: 'There is no 'Macedonian minority' 19 Jul 2008 04:47 GMT
    ... neighbouring countries, especially those of the Western Balkans, and the creation of the necessary conditions ... the Bucharest NATO Summit and in the EU European Council in Brussels respectively. Mr. Prime Minister, your ...

  • Austria urges European countries to take over leading security role 19 Jul 2008 02:37 GMT
    ... in the closing statement of the West Balkan Security Conference which ended Friday. Fekter explained ... "is essential for the security of the EU," believing that a workable cultural talk could not ...

  • Recognition of Kosovo to rise, Rice says 19 Jul 2008 02:36 GMT
    ... including the United States, the majority of European Union and NATO members, and some Asian and ... family -- the NATO family and the EU, and will have excellent relations with the ... application "in due course" as a sovereign Balkan state. For decades the poorest part of ...

  • 'Toxic cargo could start leaking any time'--experts 18 Jul 2008 20:11 GMT
    ... the Stars could start leaking any time, European Union experts warned Friday. Their findings showed "no ... soon change. The United Nations and the EU sent a three-man team of toxicologists to ... up to identify people missing from the Balkan wars in the 1990s. She said the ...

  • Secretary Rice pledges strong support for independent Kosovo 18 Jul 2008 18:51 GMT
    ... Rice mentioned that the majority of the European Union nations, Japan, Canada, Australia have recognized Kosovo ... making Kosovo a stability factor in the Balkans," stated Sejdiu. Prime Minister of the Republic ...

  • Why Belgium? 18 Jul 2008 17:25 GMT
    ... little country that plays host to the European Union. Why was there a revolt? Well, because ... place to house the (majority of the) EU institutions going. Unless we can relocate them to the Balkans... Update: Here you go, the stupidity of ...

  • Rice sees Kosovo gaining wider recognition 18 Jul 2008 16:13 GMT
    ... including the United States, the majority of European Union and NATO members, and some Asian and ... family -- the NATO family and the EU, and will have excellent relations with the ... application "in due course" as a sovereign Balkan state. For decades the poorest part of ...

  • Montenegrin, Italian premiers discuss increasing economic ties 18 Jul 2008 14:50 GMT
    ... Montenegro to continue its path towards the European Union and for Montenegrin citizens' living standards to ... good relations with other countries in the Balkans, as it has done with great wisdom ...

  • Bulgarian Opposition Challenges Govt 18 Jul 2008 13:51 GMT
    ... of the failure to fully comply with European Union requirements and the alleged misuse of EU funds. They say the motion will be ... a Strong Bulgaria party. However, Metodiev told Balkan Insight that the opposition hasn’t decided yet ...

  • Mr. Karamanlis' Harsh Answer 18 Jul 2008 12:55 GMT
    ... Mr. Karamanlis concluded that the future of Balkan countries lies in the European and Euro ... the Bucharest NATO Summit and in the EU European Council in Brussels respectively. Mr. Prime Minister, your ...

  • Serbia normalizes relations with Kosovo allies 18 Jul 2008 12:34 GMT
    ... its neighbor, the Republic of Kosovo. Many Balkans experts anticipated that Serbia would change its ... policy, and not obstruct the deployment of European Union mission, if Serbia wants to join the ... with its neighbor, normalizing relations with the EU, and clarifying its position towards the Euro-Atlantic ...

  • Transatlantic relations: promoting our common values. Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group 18 Jul 2008 10:55 GMT
    ... of the EPP-ED Group " T he European Union and the United States share the same ... promote growth and stability in the Western Balkans, and on security in neighbouring European countries. ...

  • UN mission has to adjust to profoundly new reality' in Kosovo, says Ban 18 Jul 2008 09:31 GMT
    ... instructed the Mission to cooperate with the European Union, so it can assume an enhanced operational ... in Europe as part of the western Balkans. Noting that the building of a society ...

  • Crvenkovski Won't Seek Second Term 18 Jul 2008 04:56 GMT
    ... Macedonia’s bids to join NATO and the European Union. Read more It is still not certain ... after his presidency. In an interview for Balkan Insight the President said that he is ... and in the process simply suspending all EU integration efforts by the central government in ...

  • russia, azerbaijan, turkmenistan: Medvedev seeking gas deals 18 Jul 2008 04:40 GMT
    ... years and warned gas prices for the European Union would rise to 500 dollars (320 euros) ... Deniz field offshore in the Caspian. The EU is also wooing Azerbaijan as a potential ... which would run via Turkey and the Balkan states to Austria. Construction is scheduled to ...

  • UN moves forward with reconfiguration of Kosovo mission 18 Jul 2008 02:12 GMT
    ... UNMIK in order to "allow for the European Union to take on an increasing role in ... in Europe as part of the western Balkans. Russia has said any plan to reconfigure ...

  • Kosovo Serbs convene parliament 17 Jul 2008 22:56 GMT
    ... of yet another Albanian state in the Balkans," Kosovo Serb nationalist leader Marko Jaksic told ... assembly lacks the full backing of Serbia's pro-EU Democratic Party (DS), which is poised to ... the United States and most of the European Union. (Additional reporting by Fatos Bytyci and Matt ...

  • One out of the bloc 17 Jul 2008 22:32 GMT
    ... year, Romania has become part of the European Union. Support for its own, small-scale films now ... as Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund and the Balkans Fund administered by the Thessaloniki Festival in ...

  • We Preserve All Excitement Despite Negative Developments In Turkey's EU Accession Process, Erdogan 17 Jul 2008 21:55 GMT
    ... and determination despite negative developments in Turkey`s EU accession process." Erdogan spoke to Turkish ambassadors over a ... and peace in the Middle East, Caucasus, Balkans and Africa. I frequently say that Turkey ...

  • Russia is using the West as a pawn 17 Jul 2008 21:35 GMT
    ... one country off against another. If the EU wants to help Georgia, Russia uses Greece to block it. ... Asia to Europe via Turkey and the Balkans, has been kyboshed. The Russian pipelines of ...

  • Executive jets are big business at Farnborough 17 Jul 2008 21:05 GMT
    ... largest markets for the aircraft within the EU have been the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain; and some ... new countries within the EU: in the Balkan areas, former Yugoslavia, we've sold a number ...


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