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Date: 27/02/2008
Brussels calls for closer ties with Bosnia
After more than 10,000 Bosnian Serbs took to the streets yesterday to protest against Kosovo’s independence, the European Commission has invited Bosnia-Herzegovina to sign a Stabilization and Association Agreement, which could be Bosnia’s first step towards EU membership.
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Date: 26/02/2008
Belgium crisis continues as Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie quits coalition government
The Flemish nationalists consider the first agreement reached on the competences of the Belgian communities to be “too vague”.
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Date: 25/02/2008
Winner of Cyprus elections expresses wish to reunify the island
In the second round of the presidential elections, Communist Demetris Christofias beat the Conservative candidate, who has already expressed support for solving the “Cyprus problem”.
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Date: 22/02/2008
Turkey steps up offensive in Southern Kurdistan, sending in 10,000 more soldiers
According to a press release issued by the People’s Defence Forces (HPG), the Kurdish guerrilla and peshmerga have managed to halt the advance of the Turkish army. The ground and air offensive which began on Thursday will probably last another two weeks.
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Date: 22/02/2008
Spanish general election campaign gets underway
The pre-campaign period was marked by the banning of leftist parties in the Basque Country. The options open to pro-independence parties vary from region to region. Some campaigns will offer alternatives to party-line voting.
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Date: 20/02/2008
20th anniversary of de facto independence for Nagorno-Karabakh
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is one of the ‘frozen conflicts’ in the border zones of the former USSR that could heat up following Kosovo’s declaration of independence. It is unlikely that the Armenian presidential elections held on Tuesday will change the current status of this small, self-proclaimed state.
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Date: 19/02/2008
Update: bibliography for Kosovo
A bibliography for material published on Kosovo can be found in the ‘Publications’ section of the Nationalia website.
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Date: 19/02/2008
First-round winner in Cyprus elections wants 'more dialogue with Turkish Cypriots'
The first round of elections in the Greek Cypriot Republic has eliminated the current president, Tassos Papadopoulos, from the race for the Presidency. Of the three leading candidates, Papadopoulos has the most reluctant attitude towards an eventual agreement with the Turkish community.
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Date: 18/02/2008
Abkhazia and South Ossetia claim that it is now their turn
As countries across the globe recognize the legitimacy of the new Kosovar state, several stateless peoples and nations have expressed their desire to follow the same path as Kosovo.
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Date: 18/02/2008
Kosovo becomes an independent state
As the Albanian majority declares a new “democratic, secular and multi-ethnic” republic Serbia repeats its refusal to recognize the new Kosovar state.
