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Kosovo discontent in Serbia

In front | FEATURE
The lights are on and everyone's home in Belgrade (Photo: Laurent François)

Feeling that they are nothing more than a transition generation, young Serbs are losing interest in politics. But the lively debate goes on in bars and restaurants. Final diary from a three-part travel series

by Gautier Demouveaux / Cline Moncel / Laurent Francois // 06/08/08

ANALYSIS
Genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic says he will defend himself before the UN war crimes court (Image: ©mermadon 1967/ Flickr)

Serbia’s Radovan Karadzic, prisoner bus line number 73

How the war criminal was arrested in Belgrade on 21 July, and happens in Serbia now

by n- ost // 23/07/08

ANALYSIS
Croatia may not be in the EU, but its embassies carry the EU flag, like this one in London (Image: Damien Smith/ Flickr)

Irish ‘no’: not a no to EU candidate Croatia

The historical vote against the Lisbon treaty after a referendum on 13 June puts a halt to further expansion in the European Union. But we will be meeting the EU’s 28th member in 2010

by Sergej Zupanic / Nabeelah Shabbir // 22/07/08

ANALYSIS
Posters from Holland of the Bosnian Serb fugitives (homepage/ photo: Bogomir Doringer/ Flickr)

Serbia: rising nationalism imperils Mladic, Karadzic hunt

Where will the ballot results place Serbia in its snap election on 11 May, and what consequences will it have for the hunt for the Bosnian Serb fugitives?

by Mira Galanova // 08/05/08

Athens (Photo: Redgum/ Flickr)

Babelblogs: little princes and book fair bombs

Some European member states don't get much attention, but are often worth a detour. Our multilingual community blogs take you there

by Jean-Sébastien Lefebvre // 10/04/08

REPORT

Macedonia: names, Tito and David Morales

After a Greek veto on its joining NATO during the annual summit in Bucharest on 2 - 4 April, the country could still be on track to start EU membership talks by the end of 2008 if it meets the relevant criteria. View from the lens

by Nikos Chrisikakis // 08/04/08

REPORT

12:08 - East of Pristina

In the Serb enclave of Gracanica, young people are becoming aware that a good future involves teenage crushes, good friends and weekends

by Peter John Collins // 18/03/08

INTERVIEW
Kelmendi's mother's family spoke Albanian and Turkish (Photo:  ©MK/ Java)

Gheg or Tosk: dialect still divides Kosovo

The majority of Kosovars speak Gheg, but officially use Tosk for historical reasons. As Kosovo emerges in the form of an independent state, Migjen Kelmendi, former rock star and editor in chief of 'Java' magazine, discusses 'nationalist deliriums'

by Jean-Sébastien Lefebvre // 18/03/08

FEATURE
'EUMIK': The writing is on the wall in Mitrovica (Photo: morbin/ Flickr)

Young Europeans on love, brothels and Beach Boys in Kosovo

Despite the lack of vegetables and electricity, or precisely because of it, young Swedes, Dutch and French Europeans enjoy working in this remote, recently independent, spot of Europe

by Pim de Kuijer // 18/03/08

Babchenko cites the German Erich Maria Remarque as his favourite writer (Photo: AB)

Arkady Babchenko: ‘Russia is the Germany of 1934’

Sent to the Chechen front at 18, the Russian ‘Novaya Gazeta’ columnist and colleague of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, 31, lays bare the nightmares he endured in his semi-autobiographical 'One Soldier's War in Chechnya'

by Agnès Baritou // 28/02/08

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