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Talks between Kosovo and Serbia heading towards an end

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

The new round of talks on the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia is expected to start in September

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Kosovo, Serbia mull territorial swap to end dispute

August 18, 2018August 18, 2018 VOANews Kosovo, Serbia

A decade-long dispute between Kosovo and Serbia is compelling both countries to consider a territorial swap along ethnic lines —

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Croatia police accused of abusing refugees

August 17, 2018 Deutsche Welle Croatia, Europe migrant crisis, Refugees

International aid organizations have reported that Croatian police are using violence to push refugees back into neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatian authorities

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Frontex: Irregular border crossings into EU dropped in first seven months of 2018

August 14, 2018August 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Refugees

In the first seven months of 2018, the number of irregular border crossings into the EU via the top four

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Why are police clashing with expats in Romania?

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 Deutsche Welle Romania

A crowd of up to 100,000 gathered before the seat of Romanian government in Bucharest on Friday to protest government

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Second line of Turkish Stream pipeline project over 45 per cent completed

August 9, 2018August 9, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Russia, Turkey

The Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project’s spokesperson Asli Esen said on Wednesday that its second line is over 45

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Serbs and Croats still segregated in Vukovar’s schools

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 Deutsche Welle Croatia, Serbia

Kristina Islentieva and Filip Rutko attend the same school. They have the same teachers. Yet they live in different worlds.

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Georgia’s frozen conflict takes psychological toll

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 Deutsche Welle Georgia, Russia

As Ilya Bervashvili walks out onto to his corn fields, the blue circle on the map moves beyond the dotted

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Tensions in the Serbia-Croatia-Montenegro triangle

August 8, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic recently compared 1990s Croatia with the Croatian puppet-state under Nazi occupation. On August 5, the Montenegrin

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