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1. Balkans 500-1000
(Gallery)
2. Bosnia recognizes Kosovo customs stamp
(News/Newsflash)
The stamp's design was agreed during the Belgrade-Priština negotiations on September 2 in Brussels. The Bosnia-Herzegovina government made the decision at a session on Thursday after it had adopted Foreign ...
Islamic Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina Chief Mufti Mustafa Cerić has accused Serbia of "increasingly discriminating" Bosniaks in Sandžak. He expressed concern that Serbia was provoking a new crisis ...
... make business deals in the Balkans and Asia with the support of Turkey. We want Egypt to become a part of the Nabucco project," he said. "Turkish construction sector has reached a business volume of ...
Greece has a 98 percent chance of defaulting on its debt in the next five years as Prime Minister George Papandreou fails to reassure investors his country can survive the euro-region crisis. “Everyone’s ...
Boris Tadić said today that it will demand from the international officials to prevent threats and attempts to deploy Kosovo's customs officials at the administrative line. "It is particularly worrying ...
7. Back to the Balkans again
(Economy/Resource)
The first serious working week after the summer holidays has already produced a wealth of stories here in the western Balkans. Some are more serious than others, unless of course you live here, when they ...
... region are now hesitant and avoid having a clear stance not only on the complex Palestine issue, but on issues across the whole Middle East. All of the countries of the Balkans have supported the Arabs ...
As the only Muslim member of NATO and the first country in the wider Middle East to forge relations with Israel, Turkey had long been seen as having its diplomatic feet firmly planted in the West. But ...
"Now is the time to turn the EU perspective into an EU reality." The statement was made by Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga during her address to members of the European Parliament (EP) foreign affairs ...
The European Union will spend 5 billion euros ($6.9 billion) to help the Western Balkans as it seeks to integrate the region into the world's largest trading bloc, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said. ...
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film, "Alps," proposes a novel, if disquieting, technique for grief counseling. "Alps" is the name chosen to designate an ad-hoc group whose members stand in for ...
Efe Kerem Sozeri, a 26-year-old Turk currently pursuing a PhD in political science in Amsterdam, is one of a group of young people who helped save Apoyevmatini, a Greek community newspaper in Istanbul. ...
«Here you can go a week without spending a single euro over here," says a man who moved back to Crete two years ago to live in the village of his birth. "You get fresh food from your farm and if you need ...
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey was freezing defense industry trade with Israel and stepping up Turkish naval patrols in the Eastern Mediterranean, deepening Ankara's feud with the ...
16.
(World/Balkans)
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal sentenced the former chief of the Yugoslav army to 27 years imprisonment Tuesday for providing crucial military aid to Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica ...
European stocks tumbled 4 percent on Monday, with banks plumbing a more than two year low, as fears for the future of the euro zone bubbled up against a background of weak economic growth and threats to ...
Protests against public spending cuts in Italy are just a start and could escalate in coming months as they have on the streets of other European countries, striking Italian workers said on Tuesday. Flanked ...
Head of the Kosovo team for the dialogue with Serbia, Edita Tahiri explained that, by accepting the stamps of Kosovo customs, "Serbia recognized Kosovo's independence." "The agreement on the recognition ...
20. Balkan buffet to leave your belly dancing with joy
(Life and Style/Food and Drink)
... to the region in the Balkans, but to a restaurant that brings Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian tastes to your palates in the centre of Copenhagen within the sacred borders of Tivoli. And once you've been ...