Balkan States

These are difficult times for the Balkans.

Most international intelligence assets have left the Balkans.

Italy also receives species from the Balkans, Eurasia, the Middle East.

The international news station Al Jazeera maintains a sister channel that caters to the Balkan region, Al Jazeera Balkans, broadcasting out of and based in Sarajevo.

The ESDP first cut its teeth in the Balkans.

In the late 1870s Russia and the Ottoman Empire again clashed in the Balkans.

Likewise, Serbia was one of the first nations in the Balkans to abolish feudalism.

LONDON Officially, the European Union has one Balkan policy admit the region s six countries.

Welcoming the progress made in the normalization of relations among all States of the Balkan region,

Until 1256, the Second Bulgarian Empire was the dominant power in the Balkans.

The situation in Kosovo is now at an important stage with respect to its future as well as the stability of the Balkan region.

And here is what makes the Balkans so important for understanding the new condition in Europe.

55 170. Economic assistance to the Eastern European States affected by the developments in the Balkans

56 110. Economic assistance to the Eastern European States affected by the developments in the Balkans

This failing was the key reason for the Balkan tragedy of the 1990 s.

It has also contributed to the prevention of injustice in contexts far removed from the Balkans.

SOFIA The Balkans is the European Union s untold success story.

The current developments in the situation will have an important bearing on its future and on the stability of the entire Balkan region.

It is also a fair depiction of how citizens in the Balkans feel about their new political systems.

Like the Balkans, the far shores of the Mediterranean are part of the EU s immediate security zone.

Europeans seem increasingly divided about what to do with the Balkans.

Today, we are still deeply engaged in the Balkans, fighting organised crime and building up the institutions of law and order.

Climate Kosovo is located between the Mediterranean Sea and mountainous regions of Southeast Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula.

New EU membership applications confirm the desire of Balkan governments to engage seriously in internal reforms.

The EU bet here is that, on the back of Croatia s accession, the enlargement logjam in the western Balkans will finally be broken.

The title of the book is the title of one of the poems that was written during a Cambridge spring mixing with the news of the massacres in the Balkans.

Before the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the entire Balkan region had been Christianized by both the Roman and Byzantine Empires.

In his speech at the conference, His Excellency Mr. Eduard Kukan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic and former Special Envoy of the Secretary General for the Balkans, said, The future of the western Balkans region lies, above all else, in deepening collaboration and building trust .

And spillover effects from Greece will continue to affect Balkan and other emerging European banking markets.

Kosovo s declaration of independence has put stability in the Western Balkans back on Europe s agenda.

Acting on these principles, Turkey is following a proactive foreign policy stretching from the Balkans to the Middle East and the Caucasus.

Looking at Greece's immediate neighbourhood, the Balkans, we realize that it has not yet been fully transformed into a region of peace, stability and prosperity.

Ambassador Eide's previous experience with the United Nations and his in depth knowledge of the Balkans make him the ideal person for this endeavour.

The enlargement of NATO and the EU has embraced a dozen or so states in Central and Eastern Europe and in the western Balkans.

Ten years after the last war in the region, the Balkans still comprises an assemblage of frustrated protectorates and weak states.

The geography of Croatia is defined by its location it is described as a part of Central and Southeast Europe, a part of the Balkans and Mitteleuropa.

Such a proposal could get some support in Europe and elsewhere as a seemingly appropriate compromise, even if it would destabilize the Balkans once more.

ROME Twenty years after the collapse of Yugoslavia and the communist regime in Albania, the western Balkans region is at a turning point once again.

During Samuel's reign, Bulgaria gained control of most of the Balkans (with the notable exception of Thrace) as far as southern Greece.

Cooperation has continued with WMO in the context of enhancing the technical capacity of the UNCCD process and supporting drought preparedness in the Balkans.

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