EU, NATO hopeful Croatia gets new cabinet
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Croatia's parliament approved on Saturday a new cabinet tasked with leading the country into the European Union, including an ethnic Serb for the first time since the 1991-1995 Serbo-Croatian war.
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Nato welcomes Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro into its Partnership for Peace programme.
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The Socialist-led coalition government is committed to achieving membership of NATO and the EU, which has sent a questionnaire containing 3,000 questions that Macedonia must answer before talks about membership of the bloc can start.
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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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Croatia's interior minister resigns after being pictured on a hunting trip with war crimes suspect Mladen Markac.
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Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said Monday his country hoped to complete entry talks with the European Union in 2007.
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Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader won parliament's backing on Saturday for his proposed centre-right coalition cabinet, which faces the uphill task of speeding up Zagreb's European Union membership talks.
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NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday on an expansion of the alliance's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan and will send troops into the western parts of the country, the alliance's top official said.
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NATO offered Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro on Tuesday a first step toward membership despite unresolved war crimes concerns, in a policy switch cheered by the region but condemned by the top U.N. prosecutor.
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Abdullah Gul, the new president of Turkey, approved a Cabinet yesterday that reflects Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's desire to push ahead with stalled political and economic overhauls that the country has to make to join the European Union.
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New Turkish President Abdullah Gul on  Wednesday approved a pro-EU cabinet, reflecting Prime Minister  Tayyip Erdogan&#39;s determination to push ahead with stalled  political and economic reforms needed to join the bloc.
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President Hamid Karzai has chosen a new Cabinet, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions &#151; including the defense minister &#151; and creating a new post to oversee the fight against opium production, government officials said Thursday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai Thursday evening announced the much-awaited new cabinet line-up, replacing some of the influential warlords in the interim government with new faces.
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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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Croatia will vote in a presidential election runoff which could decide who will lead the former Yugoslav republic into the European Union, with polls indicating an easy victory for incumbent Stipe Mesic.
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New candidates for the reshuffled European Commission win support from MEPs at nomination hearings.
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NATO has postponed a meeting due on Thursday between its foreign ministers and their Ukrainian counterpart but will seek early talks with a foreign minister of a "new and legitimate" Ukraine government, NATO sources said.