Shunting the Balkan operations onto an insecure transmission was a matter of priorities, say analysts.
It was Balkan-style crony capitalism, creating far too cosy a relationship between politics and big business.
Tractors proved "a real money spinner for us"--until the Balkan wars ended that business, too.
Western powers overseeing Kosovo have announced the end of their supervision of the tiny Balkan nation.
Pan-Balkan opinion polls show a certain commonality of outlook: people have similar fears, worries and hopes.
The same can be said of the Europeans, as became painfully clear in the Balkan conflicts.
The narrative switches back and forth from Washington's corridors of power to the Balkan war zones.
The emergence of Balkan nationalism gets less attention than the deterioration of Ottoman fashion.
And his own biography, steeped in the tragedies of 20th-century Balkan history, resonates with many compatriots.
Austria has lobbied tirelessly for Balkan bits of the former Austro-Hungarian empire, starting with Croatia.
Greece has proposed tax-free zones along its Balkan borders where small manufacturers could cluster.
"Balkan states have already started to suffer from the moves of the Ukrainian side, " he said.
This is why the administration of Kosovo must be part of a big Balkan plan.
Moreover, Kosovar independence would likely spur irredentist movements among the Muslim minorities in all Balkan states.
This is thought to be the first high-profile abduction of a child in the eastern Balkan country.
Speaking of meltdowns, the Balkan catastrophe is about to enter a new and far more dangerous phase.
Last month's budget deal has already cut the money earmarked for Balkan reconstruction by about a fifth.
She has performed in concerts benefiting child victims of the Balkan wars and Chernobyl nuclear disaster victims.
Vera Farmiga has a hilarious bit as a huffy Balkan streetwalker wearing very little under her overcoat.
Ranged against them is a new school of Balkan history that reflects a cross-border dialogue between scholars.
After Kosovo Mrs Clinton headed for Brussels, where she planned to continue her Balkan talks with EU leaders.
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Deep gorges, verdant mountains and a mild climate make the Central Balkan park an easy-to-explore biodiversity hotspot.
Western Macedonia is inhabited mostly by ethnic Albanians who make up one third of the Balkan country's population.
But unlike similar-sounding agreements for the Balkan countries, this one would not carry any implication of eventual membership.
For all the horrors in Kosovo, he and his Balkan policy have been flying high in the polls.
Even so, with the best will in the Balkan world, Mr Papandreou will find Kosovo hard to handle.
Divided after the 1913 Balkan war between Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia, Macedonia is still surrounded by predatory neighbours.
Are they right to think the latest Balkan war is, in effect, the last gasp of pan-Slav nationalism?
When Croatia joins the EU a new line, that of the Union's external border, will change the Balkan map.
It has done this for the Balkan countries, which are no more European and no less troubled than Moldova.
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