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18 Sep 07 / 13:46:07

Wahhabism Fuels Novi Pazar Religious Tensions

With their baggy pants, long beards and extreme opinions, most local Muslims feel startled by this Saudi import.

18 Sep 07 / 13:46:07

With so sign of economic revival in this deprived border region, locals have two choices - smuggle or go abroad.

18 Sep 07 / 13:46:07

After several bad years, town’s famous jeans firms are fighting back while road haulage continues to boom.

18 Sep 07 / 13:45:44

As yet another governor faces a politically-inspired putsch, calls grow for bank to be made more truly independent and also more accountable.

18 Sep 07 / 13:45:44

States left out of latest enlargement round will gain more than they lose from Bulgaria's and Romania's membership.

18 Sep 07 / 13:45:44

With few new ideas, no wonder the electorate is turned off.

18 Sep 07 / 13:45:43

In skipping ultra-nationalist messages in the elections, Serbian radicals appear to be embracing change.

18 Sep 07 / 13:45:24

Poor showing by two main democratic parties likely to slow formation of new government.

18 Sep 07 / 13:45:24

Outgoing premier’s hard-line stance on Kosovo makes it harder for two centrist parties to reach a deal.

18 Sep 07 / 13:45:24

While some warn of fighting if Kosovo gains statehood, few Serbs want territorial division.

17 Sep 07 / 07:03:00

Officials won’t say so publicly, but the idea of cutting Kosovo in two could offer a way out of deadlock.

12 Sep 07 / 07:02:00

Trapped between the tough and exclusive positions adopted by the US and Russia, even the semblance of EU unity over Kosovo is falling apart.

11 Sep 07 / 09:32:43

Gotovina's Offensive may have been bloody but it also forced Serbia to the negotiating table in 1995.

11 Sep 07 / 09:32:43

Some money was wasted, but it's also thanks to donors' aid that some of the best independent media in the Balkans are alive today.

11 Sep 07 / 09:32:43

A review of recent media-development work in the Balkans yields valuable lessons.