EU's new Bosnia challenge
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The transfer of Bosnian peacekeeping duties was hailed a "huge step forward", but will the EU do any better than Nato? The BBC's Nick Hawton reports.
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WIESBADEN, Germany  - The European Union has a duty to ensure stability in the Balkans a decade after the ethnic wars of the 1990s and offer its peoples the hope of EU membership, the bloc's foreign policy chief said on Thursday.
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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal  - European Union foreign ministers warned on Friday against a partition of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, arguing it could reignite conflicts across the Balkans.
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The new European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, is under mounting pressure to strip Italy&#39;s designated justice commissioner, of his role in anti-discrimination policy after he made another gaffe at the weekend.
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The European Union urged member states on Tuesday to sign up to schemes to launch work on a new European heavy transport helicopter and next-generation satellite observation system from late 2008.
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The European Union will need to reform its budget system and may have to impose restrictions on the free movement of labour before it can admit Turkey as a member, according to a document sent to EU member states on Monday.
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The Bosnia and Herzegovina Police Restructuring Commission met in Brussels on 28 October 2004 at the Institutions of the European Union and presented this Declaration to the European Commissioner for External ...
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The Delegation of the European Commission said yesterday that it would be technically impossible to conduct a Population Census in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 26 (IPS) - Leading international civil society groups are   shoring up support to challenge the European Union over the  future of the  bloc's development policy.
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NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina was officially transferred to a EU-led force at a ceremony Thursday. At the same time, NATO opened a permanent headquarters in Sarajevo.
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.
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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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The European Union will begin its largest-ever peacekeeping operation on Thursday when it takes over from the Nato mission to Bosnia Hercegovina.
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The European Union's decade-long drive to develop the military muscle to back up its diplomatic weight took visible form as 7,000 peacekeepers in Bosnia replaced their NATO shoulder tags with the EU's blue and gold colors.
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BLED, Slovenia  - The European Union could change the Balkans at a stroke by giving membership candidate status to countries still uncertain whether the bloc really wants them, Serb Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said on Monday.
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The deployment of some 7,000 EUFOR troops across Bosnia Herzegovina on 2 December marks the launch of the EU&#39;s largest-ever peacekeeping operation.
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The European Commission and parliament on Wednesday signalled a new more positive strategy for EU-hopeful Turkey, swapping threats for encouragement, while still seeking political reforms.