EU warns Macedonia over entry
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An EU commissioner issues a strongly-worded warning to Macedonia over its ambitions to join the EU.
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned Wednesday of "consequences" for the European Union's political and trade relations with neighboring Ukraine if the government there does not allow a full review of contested presidential election results.
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Slovenia threatens to oppose Croatia's bid to join the EU after a number of its nationals are held in a disputed border area.
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European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet warned southeast European countries they could not unilaterally adopt the euro to get around European Union membership criteria in the Maastricht treaty.
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"Anyone who wants Serbia as a partner has to know Serbia will accept partnership only as a whole country, not as a country cut in two"  Serb Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica warned the European Union on Tuesday that sending a supervisory mission to the breakaway province of Kosovo could damage relations with Serbia. via The Washington Post
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A senior EU official said on Thursday urgent action was needed to tackle obesity among Europe's young and warned the food industry it faced legislation in a year unless it stopped advertising junk food to children.
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Three years after a narrow escape from full-scale civil war, Macedonia holds a referendum on Sunday that its Western friends warn could mark a step backwards on the road to stable, multi-ethnic democracy.
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A referendum that would halt moves to give Albanians greater autonomy is under way in Macedonia.
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The leaders of Italy, France and Spain sent a letter to the European Union on Monday, urging the bloc to approve measures to help them cope with the flood of illegal migrants from Africa.Comment
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The European Union could change  the Balkans at a stroke by giving membership candidate status  to countries still uncertain whether the bloc really wants  them, Serb Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said on Monday.
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The U.S. Embassy in Athens warned Americans in Greece on Saturday to exercise caution and heighten their level of security following Washington's formal recognition last week of Macedonia under that name.
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BRUSSELS (BBC News) - The EU expects Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania to have signed initial deals paving the way for eventual entry into the bloc by the end of 2008, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. "I expect that in 2008 conditions will be fulfilled and thus we will be able to complete Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAA) with all countries in the region," EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. He praised Serbia in particular for turning its back on its nationalist past by supporting the work of the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal  - European Union foreign ministers warned on Friday against a partition of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, arguing it could reignite conflicts across the Balkans.
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Macedonia was a rung higher on the ladder to European Union and NATO membership on Monday after easily defeating a referendum bid to block a law giving its Albanian minority more rights.
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The European Commission is to warn Greece about publishing false information about its public finances.
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The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has warned Serbia over the anti-Hungarian attacks committed in the Vojvodina region.
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A unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo would damage security in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.