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Until the next NATO meeting, in which the organization will celebrate its 60th anniversary, in 2009, many things are waiting to be realized by the Albanian government and parliament.
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This year marks the 60th anniversary of the exodus of the "refugee children" from Aegean Macedonia, and for the first time ever, their demands have been endorsed by the Macedonian government.
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Two Zimbabwean journalists from the state-owned Sunday Mail and Herald newspapers—Munyaradzi Huni and Caesar Zvayi—have been placed on the European Union's sanctions list.
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Albania is an extremely bureaucratic state and its parliament a bureaucratic organization in which the chief bureaucrats resolve cases only when they want to, putting it at odds with Berisha's government.
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The sight of one Hindu priest in orange cloths wandering along a path just behind a Saudi imam in white thobe just after the opening event provided all the symbolism that was needed.
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Three years after Prime Minister Berisha ran on an anticorruption platform, his government has been accused of corruption more than any other government in Albania in the last 15 years.
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The Balkans is safer than thought. This is the basic message from a recently published report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, a report whose arguments run counter to common wisdom.
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Today, the Mediterranean is on the frontlines of a global struggle for peace and development. I would like to stress from the Greek point of view, the core challenge: ending the problem of Cyprus.
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Both Greece and Bulgaria stubbornly refuse to comply with decisions by the European Court of Human Rights to allow the registration of the political parties of their Macedonian minorities.
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That consultants enrich themselves from the generosity of donor nations undermines the whole point of foreign aid. It spreads cynicism among those in the field providing aid and among donor nations.
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The picture regarding the publication of Arab literature in English is dramatically changing, as was evident at the recent three-day London Book Fair, which took place last month.
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It was a wise move for the A.K.P. to put European Union integration back on the top of Turkey's agenda after the case for its closure was taken up by the Constitutional Court.
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Ahead of NATO's summit in Bucharest this week, one thing seems very clear to many in the Balkans: the United States continues to play a crucial role in the region's stability.
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said that an unspecified number of Zimbabwean asylum seekers in Britain will be arrested and imprisoned when they are deported from that country.
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Why did the West want to go through all this trouble only, according to some, to create a new zone of instability in the Balkans? Complex theories abound, but the truth (as usual) is quite simple.
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A decision by Greece to use its position as a member of NATO to end the name dispute with Macedonia has in recent weeks set off a wave of nationalist hysteria in both countries.
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Macedonia has said it would do as the international community does on Kosovo, but the United States and major European states have already stepped forward and recognized the province.
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Kosovo is counting days, even hours, to its declaration of independence. It is happening. A few sources pointed to Feb. 17 as "D" day. Some said perhaps the 18th.
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With the lifting of the ban on headscarves, a troubling sign of creeping Islamization, the guardians of secularism (mainly the military) fear further erosion of the secular republic.
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In the past, French politicians had private lives that were just as riveting as Sarkozy's. Only they kept their private affairs away from tabloid news and public scrutiny.
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In researching my family history, I embarked on a captivating and often profoundly spiritual journey that led from the New York Municipal Archives Â… to the former Soviet Union.
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Despite heavy lobbying from Berlin, European Union states with their own secessionist movements fear that an endorsement of Kosovo's independence might trigger the Balkanization of their own countries.
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When Al Qaeda was first formed, it consisted of a score or so of people; in less than 15 years it has became a global loose network from which an unknown number of sub-networks have emerged.
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Strategically speaking,
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Serbia remains adamant that it won't let Kosovo go, but has reiterated that it would not resort to violence. Yet some of its officials implied that war is within Serbia's legal means if all else fails.
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Former Prime Minister Kaczynski mainly left "Europe" to his twin brother. What are the prospects for Poland returning to the European family under the new prime minister?
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