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<title>EU Politics Today: EU Balkans News</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news/eu-balkans-relations</link><description>Constantly updated news and information about EU Politics.</description><item>
<title>Romania&apos;s corruption fight</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186793481</link>
<pubDate>6 Sep 2008 05:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  investigate him on corruption charges. Whether the EU will approve of Romanias decision remains to  ...  always been a hot topic on the Balkans. Be it for the regions communist background,  ...
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<title>Kosovo 1999 to Georgia 2008</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186774306</link>
<pubDate>6 Sep 2008 02:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  develop between Russia and NATO in the Balkans. In a sense, this was inevitable as  ...  not to commit either NATO or the EU to restoring the territorial integrity of Georgia  ...
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<title>The EU, Turkey and Russia: An Unlikely Troika</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186753360</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 23:22 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to the Caspian seas. However, if the EU one day begins to carry more diplomatic  ...  regions for European security such as the Balkans, the Mediterranean, the near east and the  ...
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<title>EU MINISTERS BACK GEORGIA OBSERVER MISSION</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186745557</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 22:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  VIGNON, France, Sept 5, 2008 (AFP) - EU foreign ministers began two days of talks  ...  more robust than UN efforts in the Balkans in the 1990s &quot;when we failed to  ...
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<title>EU wants Ukraine summit to go ahead despite crisis</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186730902</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 20:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  familiar eurospeak for an eventual goal of EU membership. EU WANTS UKRAINE SUMMIT TO GO  ...  same term used for pacts with the Balkan nations whom all agree will eventually join the European Union. However the draft summit declaration makes no  ...
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<title>EU clears Berlusconi over Roma Gypsies</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186708045</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 18:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  ethnic discrimination and was in line with EU law. Roberto Maroni, the Interior Minister, said  ...  rest are mainly illegal immigrants from the Balkans and Romania. The crackdown on crime by  ...
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<title>In Ukraine, A Conflict Over Russian Relations</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186701924</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 18:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  more interested in greater ties with the EU than with NATO for now, but the  ...  European integration, says this is dangerous. &quot;The European Union still does not have the answer to  ...  more to encourage integration. &quot;The EU recognized Balkan states &amp;mdash; Serbia, Bosnia, Albania and others  ...
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<title>EU Ties &apos;Helping Roma to Integrate&apos; in Serbia</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186698994</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 18:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Prime Minister said closer ties to the European Union will help the country&apos;s Roma integrate into  ...  Roma who fled to Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s have no identification  ...
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<title>Macedonia warns of Georgia fallout from blocked bids</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186695008</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 17:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  country if its bids to join the EU and NATO were not unblocked quickly. Ivica  ...  were two possible spinoffs in the Western Balkans from the Georgian crisis -- a spread  ...  the periphery to the core of the European Union.&quot; Macedonia won EU candidate status in 2005,  ...
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<title>Nabucco pipeline &apos;on track&apos; despite Georgia-Russia conflict</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186687106</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 17:04 GMT</pubDate>
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...  impact&quot; on planning for the US- and EU-backed pipeline, which is expected to be completed  ...  is to run via Turkey and the Balkan states to Austria, and Mitschek told the  ...
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<title>Serb minister urges government to ratify Russian energy deal</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186681110</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 16:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a strategic partner of Russia and the EU. The deal would see Serbia become a  ...  country, pumping gas from Russia onto the Balkans as part of South Stream, a joint  ...
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<title> The $2.8bn conflict</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186680200</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 16:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  study said the crisis could jeopardise a European Union project to bypass Russia for natural gas,  ...  reduce its reliance on Russian supplies, the EU is pinning its hopes on the construction  ...  through the Caucasus via Turkey and the Balkan states to Austria. &quot;It is possible that  ...
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<title>BALKANS: Fallout From Georgia</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186665194</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 14:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of Georgia a huge topic in the Balkans. The &quot;Russian interpretation&quot; (ie, the unilateral declaration  ...  order to qualify for membership in the European Union. The Serbian government wants the EU to &quot;fast track&quot; Serbia. At the same  ...
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<title>Nabucco pipeline &apos;on track&apos; despite Georgia-Russia conflict - CEO</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186628759</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 05:38 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  impact&apos; on planning for the US- and EU-backed pipeline, which is expected to be completed  ...  is to run via Turkey and the Balkan states to Austria, and Mitschek told the  ...
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<title>Albania sends more troops to Iraq</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186604482</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 02:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the U.S.-led forces in Iraq. The western Balkan country has also sent troops to Chad  ...  the Central African Republic to join the EU peacekeeping mission there. Albania, along with Croatia,  ...
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