SERBIA:  A Narrow Vote for Europe
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BELGRADE, Feb 4 (IPS) - Serbian voters have decided, in the tightest  run-off so far, that their president for the next five years  remains incumbent Boris Tadic, seen as the leader who can take  the biggest nation in the Balkans closer to the EU.
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European Union leaders will offer  Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc in a bid to  soothe Balkan tensions over Kosovo's push for independence, a  summit draft showed on Friday.
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It is not yet clear whether voters in Portugal will have their say on the European Constitution.
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Serbia hopes to sign a key aid and trade pact with the European Union before the end of this month, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said Tuesday, as its province of Kosovo heads toward independence.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's  general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky  endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N.  protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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The Serb parliament is expected to  adopt a resolution on Wednesday implicitly rejecting membership  of the European Union and NATO if the West recognizes the  independence of Kosovo.
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Testing Russia's opposition to plans for Kosovo's future, Europeans and the United States have formally introduced a draft U.N. resolution but have not decide whether to call a vote.
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European Union nations agreed Monday on an offer to set up regular political ties with Serbia, open up trade and end visa restrictions, but it fell short of a wider deal to prepare Serbia for EU membership.
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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal  - European Union states will seek to maintain a common front over the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, amid growing concern that it will declare independence unilaterally.
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EU leaders in Brussels are expected to offer Serbia a fast track route to candidacy in a deal linked to Kosovo.
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On Sunday Serbia held its first democratically organized local elections since Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in what was expected to be a close race between nationalists loyal to the former president and ...
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Serbia votes on Sunday in a knife-edge presidential election that could decide whether it turns its back on the West in response to the imminent loss of the breakaway province of Kosovo.
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BRUSSELS (Deutsche Welle) - The Dutch government has opposed holding a referendum on a new European Union constitutional treaty. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said: "A referendum is unnecessary and undesirable."  But, the Dutch cabinet also said it would take its decision to parliament, where many legislators favor a vote among the public.  In 2005, voters in the Netherlands and France rejected a new EU constitution in referendums, plunging the EU into a major political crisis.
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European Union countries are considering how to respond to Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. Send us your views.
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Serbia votes on Sunday in a  presidential election pitting a pro-Western liberal against a  nationalist in a vote seen as a plebiscite on Belgrade's place  in the world as it prepares for the loss of Kosovo.
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Voting started Saturday in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo to choose members of the parliament. Polling stations opened at 7:00 am (0500 GMT) and are due to close at 8:00 pm(1800 GMT).
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"The sending of the proposed EU mission ... would be an act which jeopardizes the sovereignty, territorial integrity and the constitution of the Republic of Serbia"  BELGRADE, Serbia : Serbia plans to adopt a set of retaliatory measures against Western states if they recognize Kosovo's independence, including the possibility of severing diplomatic ties with the United ... via International Herald Tribune