Middle East

Old Foes Serenade Serbia in Istanbul

Love is in the air in the Balkans - if the Eurovision Song Contest is anything to go by.

21 Feb 05

The international community’s flagging interest in the Balkans could undermine media development and democracy in the region.

21 Feb 05

Failure to join PfP programme could result in dismissals and even constitutional changes to Republika Srpska.

21 Feb 05

Brussels worried by slow pace of reform of judiciary and high level of corruption.

21 Feb 05

Wave of arrests for violence elicits hostility from most local people.

21 Feb 05

Unable to afford hospital treatment, impoverished villagers are turning to local magicians for cures.

21 Feb 05

European institutions to start spending serious money to defend Serbia’s borders, seen as a bridgehead for illegal immigrants.

21 Feb 05

Poverty driving young men to take dangerous, highly-paid work in Iraq.

21 Feb 05

Shipping accident off Albanian coast does further damage to country’s tourism industry.

21 Feb 05

Economic collapse in Novi Pazar threatens to expose region’s simmering social and ethnic tensions.

21 Feb 05

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