Ostracized Roam still struggle across Balkans
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POSTOJNA, Slovenia  - Elka Strojan and her 30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.
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poor Balkan country, already struggling to stay on track in its drive to join the European Union. just three percent ahead of the centrist alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties.
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BELGRADE, Oct 25 (IPS) - For more than a decade, the problem of refugees  in  Serbia was only expressed in numbers, exploited by politicians or   simply put aside.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings -- along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings -- have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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The decaying Ottoman bridge on  Bosnia&#39;s River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but  the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic  novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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The idiosyncratic world of Serb film director Emir Kusturica has been brought to the stage of the Bastille Opera in Paris in âLe Temps des Gitans,â or âTime of the Gypsies.â
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DEMIDYV, Ukraine  - Nikolai manoeuvred his bike through the ruts in a dirt road and shook his head in disgust. "Can you call this a civilized country with roads like this?" he asked after swerving to avoid a deep mud puddle.
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'Turbo-folk' - a musical style identified with the Milosevic era - is still all the rage in Serbia, Matt Prodger reports.
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Once a byword for poverty and  post-communist racketeering, Poland's second largest city of  Lodz was a place people wanted to escape. Today some are moving  back, drawn by foreign investment and falling unemployment.
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If you equate Europe with stodginess, it's time to take another look.
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ATHENS, Dec. 7 (IPS) - Immigration and dealing with migrant workers has  perennially been a problem for countries across Europe, but  nowhere more than in Greece. Huge problems remain unsolved while  the country attempts to match the requirements of EU law.
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KUKES, Albania  - The shortest route from Kosovo to Albania's sparkling Adriatic coast makes a big dog-leg through the long, deep glens of neighboring Macedonia.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia -- The tip was vague but promising, like so many other recent leads that had failed to pan out.
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Croatia faces a new challenge to its record on refugee return in the European Court of Human Rights.
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It&#039;s that time of year again when Europeans pack up the kids and pets and embark on an annual vacation exodus &amp;#151; jamming highways that are no celebration of European unity. The highway headaches are rooted largely in European governments&#039; inability to craft a sensibly numbered, well-maintained and uniformly sign-posted highway grid.
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VISEGRAD, Bosnia  - The decaying Ottoman bridge on Bosnia's River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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A Serb returns to his home in Croatia to find life is a struggle against local discrimination.