This, at least, is how the European Commission wants to see the Balkans, and how the region wants to present itself.

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

I believe that a stability pact for the region could help to match what was achieved a decade ago in the Balkans.

Third, the Balkans.

The year 2005 is a significant one for Kosovo and the whole region of the Western Balkans. We need stability and security in Kosovo.

Slovakia has thus far supported the engagement of the United Nations in the region by participating in peacekeeping and stabilization missions in the Balkans.

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.

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.

Sleepwalking in the Balkans

The Balkans New Normal

The Balkans on Trial

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 Karanovo culture developed simultaneously with the one in Varna, and its earth layers serve as a stratigraphical gauge for the prehistory of the wider Balkans region.

Institution Building in the Balkans

Only then would genuine reconciliation of the Western Balkans be possible, thus opening the road to lasting stability and prosperity of the whole region within the European mainstream.

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 .

Europe s Second Chance in the Balkans

Saramago s anywhere is the Balkans everywhere.

In the Balkans, the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) provided a boost to political change in the region.

UNIFEM continued to support Member States in the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) in Africa, the Andean region, the Arab States, the Balkans and the Southern Caucasus.

These are difficult times for the Balkans.

In our opinion, the pivotal issue with regard to the stabilization of the Western Balkans is the future status of Kosovo, which remains a potential element of instability in the region.

The Balkans, northern Turkey, Crimea, and the Caucasus.

Most international intelligence assets have left the Balkans.

But it is now or never for the Balkans.

The ESDP first cut its teeth in the Balkans.

Thus, although Serbia s loss of sovereignty over Kosovo will undoubtedly be painful in the short term, the long term gains for the entire Western Balkans region from eventual EU accession are vastly more significant.

It has zones of distribution, like Mexico and the Balkans.

Pro European governments are now in place across the Balkans.

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

The OSCE runs police development units in the western Balkans.

As the EU celebrates the accession of Croatia which will undoubtedly provide a short term boost to the reform process throughout the western Balkans it faces a profound choice in its engagement with the region.

At the regional level, the European Union and the United Nations Volunteers manage a joint initiative in the Balkans, which supports exchanges of young volunteers among countries of the region helping to promote peaceful coexistence.

The eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean, the western Balkans, the Caspian region and the southern Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East are all areas where the West will achieve nothing or very little without Turkey s support.

For instance, when I started, there were wars in the Balkans.

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

The Balkans new normality is very much a reflection of Europe s.

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

It is the largest university in Greece and in the Balkans.

A closer look reveals that the Balkans currently is a mixture of Greek style economic problems, Berlusconi style politics, and Turkish style enthusiasm when it comes to the EU s will to integrate the countries of the region.

The Group also agreed to continue engaging non participants, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, the western Balkans and key transshipment countries, to promote more robust export control standards, as required under Security Council resolution 1540 (2004).

Political leaders everywhere in the Balkans are adept at exploiting such divisions.

The price will first be paid in the Balkans, and then by Turkey.

The will to transcend the murderous trauma in the Balkans was also present.

Except for the Balkans, most European nations are at peace with each other.