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A big international conference, such as last week's NATO summit in Bucharest, can seem a bewildering place. So here are some tips on how to crack it. The first is that the...

Why leaving Macedonia out of NATO puts security at risk and why Greece should leave its dispute with Macedonia outside the EU. When the leaders of Albania, Croatia and...

NATO has one eye on the membership bids of western Balkan states, and one on its sixtieth anniversary. It may not have much to celebrate. As NATO leaders settle into...

NATO leaders meeting in Bucharest next week (2-4 April) will offer membership to Albania and Croatia. But Macedonia will receive the same offer only if it meets Greek...

Serious reform of NATO must mean looking for more synergies with the European Union, according to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO secretary-general, as he put forward explicit...

Socialists in the European Parliament have been getting all squeamish about the referendum campaign in Romania as to whether President Traian Basescu should survive an...

Less than four months after joining the European Union, Romania has become an entertaining curiosity: a country paralysed by an eternal political crisis, its colourful...

The public might not immediately notice that the European Commission has a 27th member. Leonard Orban, now in office for just one week as Romania's commissioner, does not go...

Romanians celebrated their country's accession to the European Union lavishly, with three parallel – or rival – parties in the capital, Bucharest. Happy as Romanians were...

The EU politicians who went to Bucharest for New Year's Eve to celebrate Romania's admission to the Union were spoilt for choice of festivity. The Romanian President Traian...

It has only taken days as a member state for Romania to come under attack for infringing the sacred EU principle of free movement. Despite instructions from the government in...

A few years ago the Macedonian government realised that being a small, poor, Balkan country with serious ethnic problems was not exactly a winning ticket in the race for...

Somehow, the Romanian prime minister just lost control of the situation. Indeed it was lucky he did not go under. No, not a description of the latest skirmish in the Battle...

Two weeks ago Romanian Justice Minister Monica Macovei returned to her home to find two rings of her gas cooker on but unlit, with fumes spreading through her second-floor...

A plan to establish a free trade zone in the Balkans is to be launched next month. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Enlargement Commissioner Olli...

Romania's justice minister has voiced concern over the reluctance of members of the country's parliament to endorse anti-corruption measures required for EU membership....

I didn't know in advance that I was going to fail an impromptu psychology exam, but I was feeling rather nervous about returning to Romania for the first time since 1989....

The 2007 deadline for Romania and Bulgaria to join the EU imposed an external discipline on negotiations which risked going on indefinitely. In Romania at least, the date...

In its annual report on Romania the European Commission still envisages the country joining the Union in 2007. To be fair, Romania is readier to be a member of EU than it...

Legend has it that Romania owes the existence of its vast film studios in Buftea, on the outskirts of Bucharest, to the cinema ambitions of the daughter of the country's...