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01/05/2008 The UN will monitor the situation in Kosovo, according to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. [Getty Images] |
News
01/05/2008
- UN secretary general says situation in Kosovo improving
- Djelic predicts Serbia will join EU in four years
- Turkey's ruling AKP submits preliminary defence in closure case
- Albania's Topi rejects proposed amendments to property legalisation
- Greece says it wants to see Skopje join NATO after name dispute is resolved
- Bulgarian government to sack 13 deputy ministers
- May Day commemorated with crippling strike in Greece, clashes in Istanbul
- BiH court sentences war criminal Kurtovic to 11 years in prison
- Greece extradites two ethnic Serb war crimes suspects to Croatia
- Albanian police seize 161kg of cannabis in Gjirokastra
Features
Poll: majority of Serbs support SAA
01/05/2008
Serbia's pro-Western parties could gain a slight edge in the May 11th elections, if they are able to convince swing voters that the pre-membership agreement signed with the EU this week has no effect on Kosovo's status.
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EU welcomes Turkey's free speech reform
01/05/2008
The EU hailed the Turkish parliament's long-awaited amendment to a controversial law penalising "insults to Turkishness".
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Polluted Macedonian city to be rid of smelter
01/05/2008
The Veles City Council approved the removal of the largest polluter in Macedonia -- the town's abandoned lead and zinc smelter -- and plans to build residential and business facilities in the area.
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The PSD's "rabbit in the hat"?
25/04/2008
Bucharest's mayoral race heats up as rival candidates battle for their parties' nominations.
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Roundup
Culture and Sports: Turkish writer Pamuk honoured in Romania
30/04/2008
Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk of Turkey earned an honourary degree at the University of Bucharest. Also in news this week: an international photography festival will take place in Ankara, and scientists found a new archaeological site in Albania.
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Reportage
Montenegro balks at opening up real estate market
28/04/2008
Worried that too much property will be snapped up by foreigners, Montenegrin leaders have not been able to agree on removing restrictions on the country's real estate market.
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