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...Hague, Washington's proposal is "a clear attempt to prevent Europe from going its own way" by committing its resources to the alliance. A similar conflict surfaced last week when NATO said it would renew its mandate, due to expire Dec. 15, to command a peacekeeping force in Macedonia - a task the E.U. was eager to take on to prove its mettle in the security field. The E.U. can't begin the job until NATO member Turkey accepts an agreement that would allow the E.U. access to NATO assets. But Turkey doesn't want to say yes or no until...
...home!" But in the Balkans a great many people might soon be saying, "Yankee, please stay." It would be hard to overstate the impact of U.S. involvement in the region during the past decade. The U.S. helped end the Bosnian war and later tamped down conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia. America pressured the Serb opposition to oust Slobodan Milosevic and forced his extradition to the international tribunal in the Hague. Along the way, the U.S. won friends in unexpected places, notably among the region's Muslim population. Those alliances are still paying political dividends today. But now that...
...former leader of the Social Democratic party (SPD) who ran unsuccessfully against Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1994. Last summer, Scharping came under severe criticism when photographs were published showing him and his girlfriend cavorting in Majorca at a time when German troops were beginning a dangerous deployment in Macedonia. Scharping was also criticized for using military planes to fly back and forth to Majorca to consult about the German army deployment. But the controversy was overshadowed when terrorists attacked New York and Washington on Sept. 11. Scharping was the eighth minister to lose his job since Schröder came...
...Macedonia last year, NATO "rewarded" ethnic-Albanians who took up weapons against a legitimate democratic state by pressing for major constitutional changes to accommodate their aspirations. In Kosovo, two years earlier, the U.S. went to war alongside the Kosovo Liberation Army, which Washington had had branded "terrorists" only months before, in order to pursue their shared goal of ending Serb rule over the territory...
...Produced by the same group that did a strange and wonderful box of mini-comix last year (see TIME.comix review), "Stripburek" is a more straightforward collection of over fifty black and white works translated into English. Comix from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the Ukraine and Yugoslavia are all here...