Nervous 2008 for Balkans
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Could 2008 be the year when the threat of conflict evaporates from the historically troubled Balkans, writes the BBC's Nick Thorpe.
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Bulgaria and Romania received an almost grudging green light to join next January.
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The EU expects all western Balkan nations to sign initial deals, paving the way for eventual entry, by 2008.
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Newspapers in Slovenia are nervous after the shock election defeat of Prime Minister Anton Rop&#39;s leftist government. It is thought likely that Janez Jansa&#39;s centre-right Slovene Democratic Party will form
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Many people believe that Croatia may join the European Union along with Bulgaria and Romania in 2007.
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Why are Europeans in such a state of anxiety about multiculturalism?
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's  general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky  endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N.  protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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Politics: 6 November 2004, Saturday. Macedonia sank into contemplation on Saturday, prior to the crucial referendum on whether to grant local autonomity to ethnic Albanians in the country.
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Paul Binder, TARGET International Executive Search director for central Europe (PB): Most of the fears of a mass migration from the new EU member states were not justified and I think they will not be fulfilled ...
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Economic anxiety may be at least matching national security as a factor driving the 2008 presidential contest as the voting begins.
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The fear here is that the whole of Europe has succumbed to the virus of racism and that new political parties based on some variant of racism will swell in popular support, win elections, run institutions of ...
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Politics: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. The Bulgarian Kalotina Checkpoint at the Serbian border is in a completely different condition than it used to be, said Tuesday the Sofia District Governor Olimpi Katev.
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BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 4 The European Union is to decide whether to accept Serbia along with its mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province or recognize an independent Kosovo. via Earth Times
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SYDNEY/COLOGNE  - Certain horrifying prospects come to mind as the West gets ready to descend on Beijing to cover the 2008 Olympic Games.
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BELGRADE, Feb 12 (IPS) - Sweet talk on the joys of European Union (EU)  membership is quite a favourite among leaders of the Balkans,  particularly in their public appearances. But when it comes to  serious talk, the EU looks quite far.
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Some call it &quot;an Islamic cloud over Europe&quot; and dread the day when the European Union opens the Continent&#39;s gates to Turkey.
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While Bulgaria and Romania were celebrating the European Union's decision to grant them membership next year, other EU hopefuls, including Croatia and Turkey, look likely to suffer from the bloc's growing enlargement fatigue, analysts said.