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Kosovo
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Europe and the Western Balkans: Great expectations, dull reality
Green European Journal (Brussels) -
The Western Balkans after the European elections: Still in limbo
Eurozine (Vienna) -
Tourism in the Balkans: An increasingly popular destination
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento) -
Protests in former Yugoslavia republics: Balkan indignados
Ahora Semanal (Madrid) -
Kosovo: Something rotten in the state of EULEX
VoxEurop Koha Ditore, Politika, EUobserver.com -
Balkans: ‘EU talks with Serbia scheduled for January 21’
Presseurop Politika -
Kosovo: ‘Electoral earthquake. Authorities punished’
Presseurop Koha Ditore -
Kosovo: ‘Elections without incident in north Mitrovica’
Presseurop Koha Ditore -
Serbia: Fording the river
Libération (Paris) -
Kosovo municipal elections: Violence in the north, fireworks in Pristina
Presseurop Politika, Koha Ditore -
Kosovo: ‘Deadly roads in the North and EU officials’
Presseurop Koha Ditore -
Kosovo: A bridge for the Balkans
Polityka (Warsaw) -
Jobs: ‘Grim future for young Europeans’
Presseurop Svenska Dagbladet -
Balkans: ‘Serbia waits for Germany’
Presseurop Politika -
Article: Balkan hopes
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EU-Serbia: EU accession, but not overnight
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Serbia-Kosovo : Everyone’s a winner
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Balkans: Playing chicken
Danas (Belgrade) -
Balkans: ‘Serbs in Kosovo courts and police’
Presseurop Blic -
Serbia-Kosovo: ‘Dačić: Urgent need for dialogue! Thaçi: I will accept the invitation’
Presseurop Blic -
Serbia-Kosovo: Old flames
Danas (Belgrade) -
Kosovo: ‘Government adopts Ashton Plan for North’
Presseurop Koha Ditore -
Balkans: ‘Government condemns, Brussels stays quiet’
Presseurop Koha Ditore -
Balkans: ‘Belgrade and Pristina reach agreement’
Presseurop Blic -
Serbia-Kosovo : ‘The North edges closer to Pristina'
Presseurop Danas -
Kosovo: Reeling them in
Danas (Belgrade) -
Kosovo: Europe and the challenge of state-building
Le Monde (Paris) -
Serbia-Kosovo: ‘Dačić: provisional agreement on customs taxes’
Presseurop Politika -
EU-Serbia: Eye test
Danas (Belgrade) -
Serbia: ‘Serbia softens its attitude to Kosovo’
Presseurop Blic -
Balkans: Milorad Dodik offers asylum to Kosovo Serbs
Presseurop Blic -
Balkans: Hague verdicts stoke old war feud
Tygodnik Powszechny (Cracow) -
Article: The front page
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Kosovo: EU mission too expensive and inefficient
Presseurop Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Figaro -
Diplomacy: Let’s shake hands
Danas (Belgrade) -
Turkey-Balkans: EU candidates still don’t make the grade
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Diplomacy: Don’t be shy
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Kosovo: Not quite independent yet
Presseurop -
Serbia: Tomislav Nikolić, the Balkan loudmouth
Jutarnji List (Zagreb) -
Balkans: Kosovo’s demographic time-bomb
The Irish Times (Dublin) -
Central Europe: Democracy in decline
Presseurop Die Presse -
Balkans: Beware European humble-pie
Utrinski Vesnik (Skopje) -
Serbia: One step closer to the EU
Presseurop Koha Ditore -
Kosovo: Mitrovica Serbs turn to Moscow
Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw) -
Serbia-Kosovo: Border tension growing
Presseurop Danas -
European Union: An enlargement of illusions
Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm) -
Serbia: Merkel: “Choose between Kosovo or EU"
Presseurop Danas -
Balkans: Smalltime smugglers’ war in Kosovo
NRC Handelsblad (Amsterdam) -
Libyan War: How much longer?
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Article: Balkan blues
Presseurop
For leaders in the region, EU membership risks losing control over power and patronage. For EU leaders, it is a political headache that they would rather avoid. Writer and diplomat Zlatko Dizdarević analyses how and why the process seems to be going nowhere, as both parties turn in upon themselves. 
Meanwhile, timing is everything in the Western Balkans. Just days after the vote, the European Commission published its annual report on the prospects for EU enlargement in the region. This may well focus minds on the delicate issues that the region’s countries face, though the EU’s own lack of consensus about the way forward may prove a major obstacle to their resolution. 
Where new developments in European tourism are concerned, the substantial and steady growth of the Balkans as a destination for vacations and travel is one of the most significant trends in recent years. 
The last few months have seen massive citizen movements in the Balkans against the political elite. A report from the ground. 
EULEX, the European mission to establish the rule of law in Kosovo, has been shaken by a huge corruption scandal. Pristina daily Koha Ditore has […] 
At the start of next year, Belgrade will begin negotiations to join the EU. While Serbian authorities are intent on achieving this objective, it is not yet the subject of a consensus in Serbian society. However, it does stand to benefit from a strong economic argument. 
Kosovo is also for Serbs. This is the conclusion of the decision reached by the Belgrade and Pristina leaders. Indeed, for the Balkans, this deal may prove even more important than Croatia’s EU accession, argues a Polish journalist. 
In Belgrade and Pristina, the press has hailed the agreement on the normalisation of relations between Serbia and its former province, which was concluded on April 19 under the auspices of the EU, as a historic step forward. 
On February 17, Kosovo will celebrate five years of independence. However, corruption among local political elites has yet to be eradicated at a time when the mandate for the European civil mission to the the former Serbian province has less than 18 months left to run. Questions are now are being asked about the reality of the rule of law in Pristina. 
The acquittal of two Croat generals and a Kosovar ex-prime minister has reignited the dispute over a much-contested subject in the former Yugoslavia: who was the victim and who the aggressor in the war nearly 20 years ago? 
On September 10, formal international monitoring of Kosovo will end and the newest state in Europe will take a further step forward towards true and full sovereignty. But as the European press has noted, Kosovo is far from being totally free of the supervision to which it has been subjected since birth. 
Barely installed in his presidential office, Serbia's nationalist leader proceeded to rub salt into the wounds of the former Yugoslavia. But on the crucial Kosovo issue, Tomislav Nikolić soon discovered that reality is more powerful than rhetoric. 
The continent’s youngest state has the highest unemployment rate. With no chances to travel and few opportunities at home, is Kosovo's burgeoning youth generation ripe for revolt? 
Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia... As candidates for accession to the EU, all of these states have had to bow to pressure for sacrifices and compromises from Brussels. A Macedonian columnist notes that the more they have waited, the more the concessions demanded have proved to be exacting. 
On February 28, the EU foreign ministers came out in favour of approving Serbia for candidate membership. The statement follows the regional cooperation agreement reached […] 
Afraid they will at the mercy of the Albanian majority once Serbia is forced to recognize Kosovo in exchange for EU members, a growing number of Kosovar Serbs have requested Russian citizenship. But "Slav solidarity" is a myth. 
In opening up the prospect of accession to several candidate countries, the European Commissioner for Enlargement means to put on a show of optimism. But it only reinforces the impression that Europe doesn’t know where it’s going, writes the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. 
As the border post went up in flames, NATO troops moved in to prevent an escalation of hostilities. The tension on the border between Kosovo and Serbia, a smuggling flashpoint, has once again reached fever pitch. A Dutch columnist argues that the solution should be more talks and subsidies for legal businesses. - 1 of 2
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