EU team tours Balkan neighbours
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Senior European Union officials are visiting the Balkans to discuss progress towards EU accession.
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The European Union took on its biggest military mission yesterday, replacing Nato in charge of 7,000 peacekeeping troops in Bosnia.
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BELGRADE, Nov 29 (IPS) - Three Balkans nations, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina  and Montenegro, have been invited to join the Partnership for  Peace (PfP) programme by leaders gathered at the North Atlantic  Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in Riga, Latvia.
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New NATO member Bulgaria and Balkan neighbours Macedonia and Albania will build a joint air defence system the ministers of defence and army chiefs of staff of the three countries agreed at a meeting in Sofia, ...
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Big-name Western bands head to Eastern Europe.
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The European Commission has given Bulgaria and Romania the green light to join the European Union in January, but with the closest monitoring system ever imposed on new members.
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The European Union wants to send more  officials to the territory of Kosovo than previously envisaged  as part of its planned police and justice mission, a German  newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Politics: 16 October 2004, Saturday. Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry has asked its Croatian counterpart that the local football hooligans involved in the clashes with Bulgarian fans over the World Cup qualifier ...
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The European Union agreed on Monday to  send a mission to help train local police in Afghanistan, whose  government is struggling with an Islamist insurgency.
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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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Romania and Bulgaria, left out of the European Union's historic expansion which this year brought in 10 new countries, are on track to join the bloc in 2007 but Croatia will have to wait, according to an EU ...
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The European Union is to adopt a new "twin track" approach to its dealings with the two officially united Balkan republics of Serbia and Montenegro, in an attempt to speed up their preparations for EU ...
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The European Union said that expansion would pause after the admission of two Balkan countries.
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The small ex-Yugoslav state of Slovenia faces a big Balkan challenge in its six-month EU presidency.
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2 December 2004 -- The European Union began its largest military operation today, formally taking over NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina with 7,000 troops.
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European Union leaders seeking to  reassure voters about plans to enlarge the bloc remained far  from united on Friday about the future shape of the union, set  to grow to 27 members when Bulgaria and Romania join on January  1.
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Senior EU officials visit Croatia and Serbia to discuss progress towards EU accession.