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Serbia lands in Brussels, Skopje ends up in Strasbourg

February 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia

Serbia has demonstrated that politics is indeed the art of the possible. Thirsty for any successful story in the Balkans,

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Europe 

Priština expects to strike a new deal with Belgrade

February 4, 2014February 4, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Serbia

The Kosovo government says that within the month of February, it is expecting to strike a new deal with Belgrade

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Europe 

Albanians rally in Brussels against Serbia

January 22, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Albania, Kosovo, Serbia

In Brussels, hundreds of Albanians from Albania and Kosovo gathered at a rally against the opening of negotiations between Serbia

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Europe 

Varied views as Serbia begins EU accession talks

January 21, 2014January 21, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Albania, Croatia, European Commission, Kosovo, Serbia

Serbian leaders arrived in Brussels on January 21 2014 for the start of the country’s European Union accession talks, but

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Europe 

Serb local councillor shot dead in northern Kosovo

January 17, 2014 VOANews Kosovo, Serbia

Kosovo’s government has condemned the killing of a local Serb councilman in an ethnically divided town in the country’s north.

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Perspectives 

Central and Eastern Europe in 2013: Emerging and submerging

January 6, 2014February 11, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Albania, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine

There were record floods, changes of government, protests – lots of those – and the European Union got larger by

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Europe 

EU to end EULEX mission to Kosovo in September

January 3, 2014January 3, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo

The European Union plans to end its EULEX mission in Kosovo and replace it with a new mission, with reduced

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Europe 

UN Security Council extends terms of ICTY judges

December 19, 2013December 19, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia

The United Nations Security Council voted on December 18 2013 to extend the terms of office of judges at the

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Europe 

No fresh talks planned in Brussels between Pristina and Belgrade

December 15, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Serbia

The numerous meetings which in the most part end up without any deals, seem to have exhausted the European Union,

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