Croatia votes for new president
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The people of Croatia vote for a  new president in a second and final round of voting.
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Serbians are voting on Sunday in presidential elections, the first since Serbia became independent last year.
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Croatia's liberal President Stjepan Mesic looked set to win a second term in elections on Sunday, exit polls released by state television showed.
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Croats voted Sunday whether to give President Stipe Mesic a second term in an election that was not monitored by international observers, an indication of the former Yugoslav country's democratic progress since ...
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Parliament approved on Saturday a new coalition government headed by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who vowed to pursue Croatia's quest to join the European Union and NATO.
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Croatian President Stipe Mesic won a crushing victory over his ruling conservative party rival in Sunday's election runoff, securing a second five-year term and promising to lead the former Yugoslav republic into the European Union.
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Croatia's liberal President Stjepan  Mesic looked set to win a second term in elections on Sunday,  exit polls released by state television showed.
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Montenegrins voted Sunday in the first parliamentary elections since the tiny state split from Serbia &#151; a ballot that could prove key to the new country's aspirations to become a member of NATO and the European Union.
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Croatians returned to the polls Sunday for presidential runoff between the man who led the former Yugoslav republic out of international isolation and a conservative Cabinet minister favored by nationalists.
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Ukraine votes Sunday for a new president in a repeat election that may determine whether the strategic former Soviet republic aligns itself with Western democracies or remains in Russia&#39;s shadow.
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Ukrainains voted Sunday in the third round of their presidential election.
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ZAGRB (Deutsche Welle) - Croatia's new parliament Saturday backed the new government of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who said that further European integration and economic development would be top priorities. Croatia would do everything it could regarding reforms and negotiations to speed up its efforts to join the European Union by 2010, Sanader said. He added that he also expects Croatia to join NATO in April.