Sleepwalking in the Balkans

Europe s Second Chance in the Balkans

But it did, in the Balkans.

Fight Balkan Terrorism Now

Greece was hurt by the wars in the Balkans.

Using and Abusing the Hague Tribunal

The ESDP first cut its teeth in the Balkans.

For instance, when I started, there were wars in the Balkans.

That traditional solution would only perpetuate the problems of the Balkans.

Shadows from a decade of Balkan wars may at last be lifting.

Bulgaria was to become autonomous (independent, according to the Russian records).

It would also send a positive European signal for the post war reconstruction in the Balkans.

It inhabited the Balkans, the Italian Peninsula, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula.

The Balkan wars and their consequences have overtaken the EU's enlargement policy.

Kosovo s declaration of independence has put stability in the Western Balkans back on Europe s agenda.

56 110. Economic assistance to the Eastern European States affected by the developments in the Balkans

55 170. Economic assistance to the Eastern European States affected by the developments in the Balkans

Instead, the EU's direct involvement in the Balkans should lead it to rethink its enlargement strategy.

To some extent it is practiced already both in Afghanistan and in the Balkans.

The International Tribunal in The Hague was intended as a Sword of Damocles for human rights violators in the Balkans.

The analogy with the two phase tragedy in the Balkans may turn out to be rather close, though in negative terms. In the first phase, the three sided civil war in Bosnia, some European leaders trumpeted that this was a European problem.

Association Agreements, although desirable, may not be adequate, as the EU's Balkan experiences indicate.

The analogy with the two phase tragedy in the Balkans may turn out to be rather close, though in negative terms.

Once all these countries reach agreement with the EU there would automatically be free trade throughout the Balkans.

What if Europe and America found each other at odds over some future conflict in the Balkans?

As a consequence, developments in the Balkans are unsatisfactory, as the recent riots in Kosovo and Serbia demonstrate.

That would open a new and tumultuous era in the Balkans, with more than Kosovo at stake.

Instead of suppressing the terrorists, they have been treated as part of the solution to instability in the Balkans.

It returned as an animating and unifying force with the collapse of communism and the Balkan wars of a decade ago.

The most recent EU members, Bulgaria and Romania, are both in the Balkans and both are examples of countries with special needs.

The EU began with the right idea in the Balkans to bring those countries closer to each other by bringing them closer to the Union.

The most recent EU members, Bulgaria and Romania, are both in the Balkans and  both are examples of countries with special needs.

Clearly there are countries that would not want Macedonia to remain one of the sovereign countries in the Balkans .

Even more unsettling would be the consequences for countries that fall between two stools (neither protectorate nor first circle of enlargement) such as Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania.

In the Balkans, the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) provided a boost to political change in the region.

From the perspective of the allies, they involve more than the dramatic fate of the expelled Kosovars and Balkan stability.

Bulgarian archaeologists are increasingly talking not about individual cultures, but about the lost first civilisation of Europe that originated in the Balkans.

Because, after the Balkan wars it would be irresponsible to permit a zone of instability along EU frontiers, Germany favors enlargement without delay.

Central Europe with its experiences of democratic and economic transformation can and should make a useful contribution to the reconstruction in the Balkans. However, two undesirable consequences could follow from the present situation.

Osama bin Laden established his presence in the region through a series of so called humanitarian organizations in Bosnia and Albania sometime around 1994.

The next big step was the emergence of the concept of humanitarian intervention after the genocide in Rwanda and the Balkan wars in the 1990 s.

As we all are embarrassingly aware, it was the Americans who had to produce the intervention that finally stopped the bloodshed in the Balkans.

Arguably, the droit d ingerence served as the inspiration for much of the so called humanitarian intervention in the Balkans and in Africa in the 1990 s.

Today, we are still deeply engaged in the Balkans, fighting organised crime and building up the institutions of law and order.

They benefit from the fact that scores of weak states lack the legitimacy or capacity to control their own territory effectively. The result is what General Sir Rupert Smith, the former British commander in Northern Ireland and the Balkans, calls war among the people.