"Europe shocked and angry over Bhutto killing
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union Heads of State and Government summit in Brussels December 14, 2007.
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R.I.P. Benazir Bhutto
Special EU-Digest report on the assassination of Mrs. Bhutto
Death of a Heroine, not a Martyr
By Chris Dalby
The world is a poorer place this day with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Although controversy surrounded her and with the veil of corruption never quite dispelled, Ms. Bhutto was still a highly positive face to place on such a troubled country as Pakistan.
Proud Portugal leaves mixed EU presidency record
DOSSIER: Kosovo, Europe's challenge in 2008 | 28/12/2007
Serbia's parliament has confirmed the country's claim to Kosovo, thus calling into question Serbia's perspectives as a future EU member. Now, Slovenia is to play a special intermediary role in the conflict over Kosovo: The first former Yugoslavian country to become independent, Slovenia rotates into the EU Council presidency in January.
Economist.com: Eastern Europe in 2008
IHT: Serbia considers retaliatory steps against West if Kosovo breaks free
....Comment EU-Digest: Mr. Jovanovic is right and on top of that the Serbs have also not delivered Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic to the International Court of Justice. Serbia's war against Bosnia and Croatia between 1991 and 1995 was characterized by appalling acts of systematic violence against civilians. The use of ethnic cleansing and other genocidal tactics by Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic as a policy tool for partitioning Bosnia and Croatia and establishing a new population balance favorable to the Serbs in ethnically-cleansed territories shocked the international community.
Serbian MPs in Kosovo warning
Reform Treaty: a little more honesty and less smoke and mirrors please
So the Reform Treaty (we’re supposed to call in the Lisbon Treaty now, just so citizens can confuse it with the Lisbon Strategy) has been agreed. But what have the Heads of State and Government actually signed? All of the amendments are listed here on the Council website. Yet no consolidated version of the text has yet been released - that’s essentially a full text of the Treaties incorporating all of the changes. Nanne, Jan Seifert and Ralf Grahn have more on the story, and a diligent German academic - M Walter - has produced his own version in German.
