New Croatian Government Says EU, NATO Its Top Priority
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ZAGRB (Deutsche Welle) - Croatia's new parliament Saturday backed the new government of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who said that further European integration and economic development would be top priorities. Croatia would do everything it could regarding reforms and negotiations to speed up its efforts to join the European Union by 2010, Sanader said. He added that he also expects Croatia to join NATO in April.
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Kosovo was poised to become the world's newest state on Sunday, albeit under the guidance of the European Union and the United States, as it prepared to declare independence from Serbia.
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Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader vowed on Thursday to cooperate fully with the U.N. war crimes tribunal to ensure that his former Yugoslav republic can start membership talks with the European Union next ...
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The EU took a significant step towards its next wave of expansion, naming dates for Romania and Bulgaria to sign entry accords while agreeing an earlier-than-expected start for talks with Croatia.
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Iraq, the Middle East, and Ukraine are set to top the agenda as EU foreign ministers gather in a monthly meeting in Brussels today.
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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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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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"Kosovo directly affects the security and stability of our region"  Surrounded by photographers, NATO's Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, center right, talks to Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, center left, during an informal dinner for ministers, in the ... via The Macon Telegraph
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov called for objective promotion of democracy on the post-Soviet space by the European Union.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Thursday called on the European Union, the United States, Russia and Ukraine to help find a solution to the urgent problem of Moldova s breakaway Dnestr region.
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The government, keen to make Italy the first country to ratify the EU constitutional treaty, was setto greenlight the necessary bill in a cabinet meeting late Friday afternoon.
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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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Poland's new prime minister-designate, Donald Tusk, reached out to a centrist, EU-friendly party Wednesday as he opened talks on forging a government coalition three days after victory in parliamentary elections.
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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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East Timor's new Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has said his government would prioritize reconciliation and try to restore public confidence in the authorities after months of uncertainty in the tiny nation.
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Tony Blair, the British prime minister, wants Africa to be the &quot;top priority&quot; for a new European Union military force that could be deployed in crisis areas at short notice.
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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.