Serbs vote in watershed presidential election
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Serbs voted on Sunday in a close presidential election that could decide future ties with the West after the expected loss of its breakaway Kosovo province.
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A pro-Western and a nationalist candidate faced off Sunday in a closely contested Serbian presidential race that could determine whether the troubled Balkan nation will move closer to the European Union or sink back into isolation.
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Romanians went to the polls to elect a president in a second-round run-off vote pitting Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, the favourite, against Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.
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The U.N. mission in Kosovo announced Friday that general elections will be held in the Serbian province Nov. 17, shortly before international envoys report on efforts to resolve the dispute between ethnic Albanians and Serbs over the territory's future.
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3 October 2004 -- Election officials in Bosnia say the country&#39;s main Muslim, Serb, and Croat nationalist parties were leading as results for yesterday&#39;s local elections came in.
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Serbia voted 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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Montenegro residents went to the polls Sunday in an election critical to the new country's goal of joining the European Union and NATO.
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Romanians, angered by poverty and corruption, started voting on Sunday in a closely contested election to decide who will lead the Balkan country through two years of hard European Union-dictated reforms.
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Serbs went to the polls in local  elections on Sunday in the first test of voter opinion since  they chose pro-Western President Boris Tadic in June.
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Serbia on Sunday 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 pro-Western reformists.
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Croats voted Sunday whether to give President Stipe Mesic a second term in an election that was not monitored by international observers, an indication of the former Yugoslav country's democratic progress since it gained independence in a bloody 1992 war with a rebel Serb minority.
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BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's pro-Western president narrowly defeated an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in a closely contested election Sunday only days before an expected declaration of independence by the breakaway Kosovo province.
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Croatians voted on Sunday in  presidential elections likely to give incumbent Stjepan Mesic,  credited with putting the former Yugoslav republic on the road  toward the European Union, a second term.
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The pro-western Serbian president, Boris Tadic, wins re-election, narrowly defeating his nationalist challenger, Tomislav Nikolic
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Pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hardline challenger Tomislav Nikolic vie in elections on Sunday that will decide who drives Serbia's response to the trauma of the expected breakaway of its Kosovo region.
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Serbian voters turned out in force on Sunday for the first round of a tight presidential election that could decide the country's future ties with the West after the expected loss of its breakaway Kosovo province.
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Bosnian Serbs appear to have voted for the continuing division of their country in national elections.