![]() Crime and corruption remain problems in Balkan countries that aspire to join the EU, Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot said. [Getty Images] |
06/11/2008
06/11/2008

Next year will be crucial for Turkey and the seven Western Balkan countries seeking to join the EU, according to the European Commission's annual reports on their progress towards accession, published on Wednesday.
06/11/2008

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband swung through Belgrade and Pristina while crucial negotiations on the deployment of EULEX to Kosovo were underway.
06/11/2008

International smuggling rings are the target of a major police operation conducted over the past several months.
31/10/2008

Authorities have been unable to show they have the upper hand over the mafia, bloggers charge.
05/11/2008

Istanbul is hosting its 27th annual book fair. Also in cultural news: an archaeological site opens in Pella, Greece, and a Romanian director's movie receives a special jury prize at a film festival in Essonne, France.
03/11/2008

Will Matthew Nimetz's latest idea -- Republic of Northern Macedonia -- go the way of its predecessors?