Balkan States

This news came as a surprise to many in the tiny land locked Balkan country of two million people.

Putin s Balkan Mischief

Syria s Balkan Tragedy

The Balkan Endgame

Another Balkan High Noon

Exorcising the Last Balkan Ghosts

The Return of the Balkan Question

A European Cure for Balkan Depression

Balkan Wars refugees from Greece resettled in Bulgaria in 1913.

Opponents of partition fear opening a Pandora s Box of other Balkan issues.

One of the most dreadful decades of Balkan history ended five years ago.

These countries not to mention their Balkan neighbors, Greece included need to be Europeanized.

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

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

Association Agreements, although desirable, may not be adequate, as the EU's Balkan experiences indicate.

Partly as a result of that agreement, the Balkan countries have taken major steps forward.

During the Balkan Wars, various French Henry and Maurice Farman aircraft types were in use.

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

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

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

It is as if the crisis in the EU s center had not reached its Balkan periphery.

The three largest and deepest tectonic lakes of the Balkan Peninsula are partly located in Albania.

The leaflet was circulated by the Union and other organizations in the entire country and especially the frontier areas, countries of the Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Africa and elsewhere. It was granted an award by the European Soroptimistic Federation.

(s) Balkan Legal Forum 2004, Business and law in South East Europe (Sofia, Bulgaria 17 September 2004)

The Balkan Yankee writes on the ways in which the so called foreigner tax is applied in Bulgaria.

Moreover, unlike East European or Balkan nationalism, the Scottish variety has little to do with ethnicity or religion.

For example, the total cost of the Balkan wars of the 1990 s is estimated at 150 billion.

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

During the Balkan wars of the 1990 s, women were raped for the purpose of bearing the enemy s children.

Many of the countries on today's Balkan Route were directly affected both as sources of exiled people and as refugee destinations after the Balkan Wars, World War I, the Holocaust, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and 'ethnic cleansing' campaigns in the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia.

Many former Soviet Republics with EU aspirations have become victims of this loss of nerve, as have the Western Balkan countries.

It returned as an animating and unifying force with the collapse of communism and the Balkan wars of a decade ago.

Due to our recent efforts, the wounds of the Bosnian war are being healed, facilitating peace and stability among Balkan peoples.

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

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

Severe to moderate droughts in mid 2005 affected Austria, the Balkan countries, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Spain, leading to important agricultural losses.

In 1934, he tried without success to build ties with France, Germany, and the Balkan states, and Albania drifted back into the Italian orbit.

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

But, as European leaders prepare to meet their Balkan counterparts in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, things have begun to look a lot less certain.

The next big step was the emergence of the concept of humanitarian intervention after the genocide in Rwanda and the Balkan wars in the 1990 s.

Another important task was to help bring stability to the troubled Balkan region after the breakup of Yugoslavia and the resultant wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.

The competition and prospect of belonging to a group of frontrunners would be an added incentive for Balkan leaders to engage with the EU accession process.

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.

Since the 1980s, Italian troops have participated with other Western countries in peacekeeping operations across the world, especially in Africa, Balkan Peninsula and the Middle East.