EUROPE:  What Would You Call This NATO Member
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ATHENS, Feb 11 (IPS) - The countdown has begun to the NATO summit in  Bucharest Apr. 2-4 where Macedonia expects to be invited to join  the alliance.
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Posted on 01/19/2008 2:14:55 PM PST by ScaniaBoy Foreign ministers from four major European powers and top EU officials met to discuss the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, a day before ... via Free Republic
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Kosovo could soon be Europe's  newest independent state, but the Albanian majority in Serbia's  breakaway province still has to decide on a name, a flag and an  anthem.
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Guess who's not coming to dinner? Vladimir Putin was not invited to NATO's first summit in a country once incorporated into the Soviet Union, but that did not stop rumors that the Russian leader might show up for a meal anyway.
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BRUSSELS - Six months after the European Union expanded into eastern Europe, the bloc&#39;s leaders this week are set to fix a date for opening membership talks with Turkey, a strategically located NATO nation which has been knocking on EU doors for over 40
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Nato can prevail in its first mission outside of Europe but only if members boost their commitment, the alliance's head warns.
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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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Comment is free: Ulrich Beck: A European community based on the principles of cosmopolitan tolerance could form the template for a new global order
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The deployment of European troops to Lebanon and Afghanistan comes under the spotlight and there are mixed views on how the EU should deal with a national unity government in the Palestinian territories. In Austria and Germany, papers are dismayed at a fall in the number of students receiving university degrees.
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BUDAPEST, Mar 13 (IPS) - Western-leaning elites in this nominally neutral   country would like to see Ukraine join the  North Atlantic  Treaty Organisation (NATO) despite strong popular  opposition.
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Latvian and Polish interests are in tune and active cooperation between both countries is not only within the European Union (EU) and NATO, but also by participating in various international forums, Polish ...
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Will e-petition be 'President' Blair's Waterloo? A bunch of Europhiles are hoping to scupper Tony Blairâs bid to become president of Europe using the very same sort of e-petition-powered pop democracy he toyed with himself in his time at Number 10.â¦
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KABUL, Dec 2 (IPS) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair's surprising  claim that NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) troops are  "winning" the military mission against the Taliban has to  be verified on the ground in Afghanistan.
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Politics: 11 December 2004, Saturday. A NATO team will start next week consultations with the Bulgarian side, as part of putting together the Alliance's annual assessment of the Bulgarian contribution.
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In American military parlance, it's gut-check time for NATO in Afghanistan, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy appears ready to answer allies' calls for more forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda
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NATO leaders Wednesday invited Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina to join a program considered a first step toward eventual membership, but urged Serbia and Bosnia to fully cooperate with the U.N. war ...Comment
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BRUSSELS -- Nearly 2,000 NATO troops, including two &quot;rapid response&quot; battalions from Spain and Italy, began arriving in Afghanistan this week to strengthen the international military presence there in time for the Oct. 9 presidential election, NATO officials said.