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 in 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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EU leaders, fresh from signing a treaty that overhauls the way the bloc runs, will strive Friday to present a united front on Kosovo as the Serbian province prepares to move to independence.
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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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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 European Union Monday offered Serbia a political cooperation deal, as Dutch objections held up the signing of a wider-ranging agreement on closer ties.
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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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BELGRADE, Jan 17  Serbia could lose World Bank and IMF assistance, miss its chance of European Union membership and slide back into isolation unless it hands over war crimes suspects to the Hague ...
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The EU sought Monday to boost the election chances of Serbia's pro-European President Boris Tadic, offering to sign a cooperation deal after a poll that is shaping up as a "referendum on Europe".
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The United States and European  nations circulated on Wednesday a draft U.N. Security Council  resolution that would pave the way for independence in Kosovo  if further negotiations fail in four months time.
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Serbia's threat to turn its back on EU membership over Kosovo probably has more to do with electioneering than political reality, incoming EU president Slovenia said on Thursday.
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The European Union is set to approve a first step toward closer ties with Serbia and Montenegro Monday after a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect turned himself in to the U.N. tribunal for former Yugoslavia, diplomats said Sunday.
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European Union leaders backed away Friday from offering Serbia a fast-track to membership and again cautioned Belgrade that its future entry hinges on full cooperation in handing over war crime suspects for trial.
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New European Union President Slovenia  said on Tuesday it backed signing an accord with Serbia that is  a first step towards EU membership as soon as possible,  possibly by the end of this month.
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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 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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EU foreign ministers offer to resume talks on closer ties with Serbia if the country takes steps to catch war crimes suspects.