Step by Step in The Balkans
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Ever so slowly, countries that once made up the former Yugoslavia are reorienting themselves toward the West and its democratic institutions.
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Politics: 12 November 2004, Friday. The last phase in the preparation of Bulgaria's fourth infantry unit to set off for Iraq in about a month was completed, the Defense Ministry announced in a press statement.
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PRISTINA, Jan 15 (IPS) - In the northern part of the ethnically divided city  Mitrovica, 38 km north of Kosovo capital Pristina, 60 people have  occupied an abandoned two-floor building. Among them is Alexander  Damianovic, of Serbian ethnic origin, who arrived in Mitrovica in  2001 after transiting through various places in former Yugoslavia.
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While the southern Balkan country of Albania is located in a region of high seismic activity, an estimated 60 percent of buildings constructed in the country in the last 10 years have escaped any type of ...
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BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 4 The European Union is to decide whether to accept Serbia along with its mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province or recognize an independent Kosovo. via Earth Times
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MOKRA GORA, Serbia and Montenegro  - The Sargan  Eight train twists gently through the remote green mountain  ridges of deepest Serbia, triggering flashbacks from the fabled  days of Tito's partisan guerrillas.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There are some new faces in the Serb-controlled slice of northern Kosovo, the breakaway province where 2 million Albanians will declare independence from Serbia within days.
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BELGRADE, Dec 30 (IPS) - The Tito train will remind many in the Balkans of  good old times as it resumes its run Dec. 31 after almost a  quarter of a century in the shed.
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Albania, Croatia and Macedonia said they were ready to increase their participation in NATO operations and pledged to further develop cooperation in their bid to join the alliance.
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TIRANA, Albania, Jun 25 (IPS) - It was not so long ago that Albania, a tiny nation  of 3.1 million in the western Balkans remained off route for  hundreds of thousands of tourists who rushed to the Adriatic  coast for their summer vacations.
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Allarme in Francia e Austria.Sos razzismo in Turchia, Bosnia
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Theme: This report examines the historic agreement taken by European Union leaders at their 16-17 December summit in Brussels to begin accession talks with Turkey after 41 years in Europeâs ante-room.
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A group of historians from Croatia to Turkey are trying to encourage reconciliation.
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BELGRADE, Feb 12 (IPS) - Sweet talk on the joys of European Union (EU)  membership is quite a favourite among leaders of the Balkans,  particularly in their public appearances. But when it comes to  serious talk, the EU looks quite far.
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The BBC's Nick Hawton looks at the task ahead for the European troops preparing to take over from Nato's SFor in Bosnia.
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With ten new members added into the fold and a new draft constitution working its way through capitals for ratification, the European Union (EU) is in the midst of unprecedented political and geographic ...
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The small ex-Yugoslav state of Slovenia faces a big Balkan challenge in its six-month EU presidency.