Thursday, March 01, 2007

EU must offer Balkans hope of EU membership, official says



Canada.com
Former Kosovo prime minister, KLA commander pleads innocent in war ...
San Diego Union Tribune - 1 hour ago
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Kosovo's former prime minister pleaded innocent Thursday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to charges of involvement in the murder, rape and torture of Serbs and suspected Serb collaborators in the province's 1998-99 war.


E Canada Now
Ruecker reassures Kosovo Serbs
B92 - 6 hours ago
Several Serb students from Kosovo's enclaves told the BBC News website in Kosovska Mitrovica this week that their families were preparing to leave their homes and move to central Serbia in the event of Kosovo independence.

Kosovo leader tells Albanians to shun protest
Reuters AlertNet - 29 minutes ago
PRISTINA, Serbia, March 1 (Reuters) - Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu appealed to ethnic Albanians on Thursday to stay away from a scheduled weekend protest against a Western-backed blueprint for the breakaway Serbian province.

EU defence ministers study missions in Bosnia, Kosovo
Focus News - 14 minutes ago
European Union defence ministers held talks Thursday focused on the Balkans, amid hopes that a compromise can be found on Kosovo's future status and that Bosnia will remain calm, AFP reported. At the start of a two-day informal meeting in Wiesbaden, ...


ECIKS.org
Kosovo: using the privatisation fund for infrastructure
ECIKS.org - 5 hours ago
He made clear that after the payment of any claims the surplus would be transferred to the Kosovo Budget and then it would be up to the Kosovo government to decide on what to do with that money. Acda asked the Ministry to nominate their representatives ...
Kosovo Government to grant a concession on Prishtina Airport ECIKS.org
CEFTA – a challenge for the future of Kosovo ECIKS.org


Kosovo Nationalists Promise Peaceful Anti-UN Rally
BIRN - 3 hours ago
Kosovo’s nationalist Vetevendosje movement has claimed its new protest against the UN proposal for Kosovo, planned for Pristina on March 3, will be larger than any of its predecessors.


EU, NATO study Kosovo security presence
Washington Post - 7 hours ago
WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) - European Union and NATO defense chiefs on Thursday mapped out plans for steering the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo through a tense period while ensuring a future exit strategy for their armies.


E Canada Now
EU must offer Balkans hope of EU membership, official says
International Herald Tribune - 36 minutes ago
WIESBADEN, Germany: The European Union has a duty to ensure stability in the Balkans a decade after the ethnic wars of the 1990s and to offer its people the hope of EU membership, the bloc's foreign policy chief said Thursday.

Albania defines three areas for construction of new gas terminals ...
International Herald Tribune - 5 hours ago
TIRANA, Albania: Authorities on Thursday defined three areas in southwest Albania for the construction of gas terminals and power plants, aiming to become a transit point for international gas networks and overcome a power crisis in the former ...

Montenegrin fishing boat reported missing in Albania
Makfax - 7 hours ago
Albanian police announced that Montenegrin authorities formally requested Albania to help the search for the missing boat three days ago.

Croatia Shelves Demand for War Damages from Montenegro
BIRN - 2 hours ago
On February 27, Ranko Krivokapic, speaker of Montenegro’s parliament, said the newly independent country would not need to pay full reparations to Croatia for the damage caused by military attacks launched from its territory in 1991.

MEPs prepare critical report on Croatia's EU progress
EUobserver.com - 4 hours ago
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Members of the European Parliament are wrestling over a tough report on Croatia's path to the EU, with Zagreb lobbying deputies to get them to tone down the document.

Croatia launches new export strategy
Southeast European Times - 5 hours ago
Instead of exporting bare products and services, the initiative aims to set up six main export clusters-- water, fish, textile, shipbuilding, forestry and communication technologies.


Iran, Serbia discuss cooperation
B92 - 6 hours ago
The Iranian Foreign Ministry's Director-General for Central and North Europe Affairs Ali Baqeri, currently on a visit in Belgrade, met with Deputy Minister for International Economic Relations of the Republic of Serbia Jasmina Hadžiabdić.
Iran-Serbia hold joint political meeting Islamic Republic News Agency

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