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Hotels a hard sell in tourist magnet Croatia

P avle Radonic has worked as assistant manager for Hotel Belvedere, overlooking the medieval city of Dubrovnik, for 18 years. Except for the first few months on the job, he has never welcomed a guest. How a five-star cliff-side resort on the Adriatic ...

From ADAM TANNER, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  Franjo Tudjman

Fashion made in Europe, somewhere

The road to the continent's high fashion boutiques often leads through little-known towns in the Balkans, but you wouldn't know it from reading the labels. Blerza Kallajnxhi held up a cluster of labels saying "Made in EU" at her factory in ...

From ADAM TANNER AND MAJA ZUVELA, Shanghai Daily,  20 Jun 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  Pierre Cardin,  NATO,  Hugo Boss

Bosnia does not need new peace deal, Biden says

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Bosnia is the Balkan country most at risk of new violence, but does not need to redo the peace deal that created an ethnically divided state, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on a tour that ended on Friday. Biden traveled to ...

From ADAM TANNER, Boston Globe,  22 May 2009
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  European Union,  Milorad Dodik

Biden says ending Balkan divisions will take time

CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday real integration between ethnic groups in the Balkans could prove even more difficult than it had been to end the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. "What we are ...

From ADAM TANNER, Boston Globe,  21 May 2009
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  Barack Obama,  Martin Luther King, Jr.

U.S. gets cheers in Kosovo after cooler Serb embrace

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden received a tumultuous welcome in Kosovo on Thursday just hours after leaving Serbia where thousands of police kept streets empty to avoid anti-American protests. The contrasting welcomes on a three-day tour ...

From ADAM TANNER, Boston Globe,  21 May 2009
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  NATO,  Hashim Thaci

Biden faces skeptical Serbia in visit to boost ties

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Serbia on Wednesday on the highest-level U.S. visit in a quarter century, but faced skepticism because of his past support for Belgrade's wartime foes. "It's no secret to anyone I personally as a ...

From ADAM TANNER, Boston Globe,  20 May 2009
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  European Union,  NATO

Biden warns Bosnia must heal ethnic divide

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned Bosnia could again descend into violence unless its leadership takes steps to heal the ethnic divide. Biden arrived early on Tuesday hoping to bolster a country still plagued by ...

From ADAM TANNER, Boston Globe,  19 May 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  Joe Biden,  Javier Solana

Biden seeks to bolster still divided Bosnia

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Bosnia on Tuesday hoping to bolster a country still plagued by instability and ethnic division 14 years after the end of Europe's worst conflict since World War Two. The United States ...

From ADAM TANNER, Boston Globe,  18 May 2009
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  NATO,  Sven Alkalaj

Biden seeks new U.S. start in Balkans

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden makes the highest-level U.S. visit to Serbia in a quarter century this week seeking a new diplomatic start in the Balkans, a region where Washington twice intervened militarily in the 1990s. In visiting two ...

From ADAM TANNER, Boston Globe,  18 May 2009
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  NATO,  James Baker,  European Union,  George W. Bush

Macedonia voting, hoping to win EU, NATO embrace

OHRID, Macedonia (Reuters) - Macedonians began voting on Sunday for a new president in a ballot they hope will show they are worthy of joining the European Union and NATO. Once the poorest Yugoslav republic, Macedonia declared independence in 1992 and ...

From ADAM TANNER, Boston Globe,  5 Apr 2009
Related Topics: NATO,  European Union,  Branko Crvenkovski

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