EU to offer Serbia fast track to candidacy: draft
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European Union leaders are set to offer Serbia a fast track to candidacy for membership of the bloc and pledge to step up preparations for a police mission to stabilize Kosovo, a draft statement for Friday's EU summit said.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Sunday he expects that Russia, China and other U.N. Security Council members will support Belgrade's stand that the negotiations on the future status of Kosovo province ... via People's Daily Online
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By Douglas HamiltonBELGRADE - Serbia will hold an early election after a referendum in four weeks on a new constitution reasserting its sovereignty over Kosovo, the prime minister said on Saturday.Setting his ...Comment
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NATO on Tuesday offered Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro the first step on the road to membership of the alliance, and declared that other Balkan countries could expect firm invitations to join in 2008.
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Serbia will hold an early election  after a referendum in four weeks on a new constitution  reasserting its sovereignty over Kosovo, the prime minister  said on Saturday.
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The U.N. mediator on Kosovo's  future status said on Thursday he was willing to grant Serbia  more time to consider his complex plan that most see as paving  the way for the province's independence from Belgrade.
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Serbia's central bank governor has said the country is currently in no condition to join the European Union, and called on politicians to draw up a plan quickly to lead it in the direction of membership.
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New European Union president Slovenia  said on Tuesday it wanted Serbia to take a key step towards  future membership this month, but acknowledged some EU states  needed to be convinced.
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European Union leaders agreed on Friday to send administrators and police to Kosovo ahead of an expected declaration of independence from Serbia.
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European Union leaders, worried that Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc at a summit on Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 7 (IPS) - The European Union has decided to deepen its  political and economic ties with Serbia, despite suggestions that  the Belgrade authorities could be protecting one of the most  wanted men in the former Yugoslavia.
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A high-level EU delegation pressed Belgrade to take part &quot;positively&quot; in UN talks on the future of its breakaway province of Kosovo and to speedily form a new government.
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Europeans and the United States are drafting a U.N. resolution that would order 120 days of negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo's ethnic Albanians but no longer automatically call for independence.
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A high-level European Union delegation arrived in Belgrade on a mission to convince Serbia to back a United Nations plan on the future of its breakaway province of Kosovo.
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Serbia will hold an early election after a referendum in four weeks on a new constitution reasserting its sovereignty over Kosovo, the prime minister said on Saturday.
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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
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EU foreign ministers will debate on Monday whether to sign an interim trade agreement with Serbia -- a move seen as boosting pro-European President Boris Tadic ahead of a February 3 presidential run-off.