EU sees policing mission of up to 1,000 in Kosovo
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The EU is looking to send up to  1,000 police, judges and other law enforcement personnel to  Kosovo once the future of the U.N.-administered province of  Serbia is settled, an EU official said on Tuesday.
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PARIS, Dec. 14 -- European Union leaders on Friday pledged 1,800 police and administrative officials to Kosovo, part of a package of aid and diplomacy intended to facilitate a well-choreographed, quick and peaceful march to independence for the breakaway Serbian province.
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"Kosovo directly affects the security and stability of our region"  Surrounded by photographers, NATO's Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, center right, talks to Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, center left, during an informal dinner for ministers, in the ... via The Macon Telegraph
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - Protesting Serbs in Kosovo warned the European Union on Tuesday they would reject its planned supervisory mission if the Albanian majority declares independence from Serbia early next year.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon said Friday he could not yet give his blessing to a planned 1,800-strong European Union mission for Kosovo because of the international dispute over the future of the breakaway Serbian province.The EU wants to send a policing and administrative mission to Kosovo to replace the current U.N. force, which took control alongside NATO peacekeepers in 1999 after war ended between Serbian troops and separatist ethnic Albanians.'I will have to closely and carefully assess the situation as it develops,' Ban told reporters after talks with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency. Read more
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BELGRADE - In a major move to boost its military might, the European Union took over the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Thursday.
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The European Union took on its biggest military mission yesterday, replacing Nato in charge of 7,000 peacekeeping troops in Bosnia.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Nov 10  The United Nations plans to deploy more international police officers to ethnic minority areas in Kosovo, responding to continuing security fears in the U N-run ...
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An EU mission to train Afghan police to deal with militia attacks and soaring drug production will begin next month, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Tuesday.
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The European Union must be ready to guide Kosovo on an unstoppable path to independence after the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on the Serb province's future, the incoming EU presidency said on Thursday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon said Friday he could not yet give his blessing to a planned 1,800-strong European Union mission for Kosovo because of the international dispute over the future of the breakaway Serbian province.
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European Union leaders, worried that  Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the  Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining  the bloc at a summit on Friday.
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WIESBADEN, Germany  - The European Union has a duty to ensure stability in the Balkans a decade after the ethnic wars of the 1990s and offer its peoples the hope of EU membership, the bloc's foreign policy chief said on Thursday.
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The European Commission is to draw up plans to bolster co-operation in the fight against terror.
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NATO peacekeepers were being  sent to newly independent Kosovo's border with Serbia on  Tuesday to defend frontier posts under attack by Serbs who  oppose its secession.
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European Union experts will from next  month start training police forces across Afghanistan,  including southern provinces which have borne the brunt of  insurgent violence, EU officials said on Tuesday.
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.