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Why the EU Needs a Strategy for the Black Sea Region

January 3, 2007

By Lara Scarpitta* It is old news that geography matters in foreign policy. A dormant EC/EU had to learn this vital lesson in 1989, when communism crumbled behind its safe walls. Faced with the sudden prospect of bordering poor, unpredictable and unstable neighbours, it responded by anchoring the former soviet satellites of Central Europe with [...]

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OSCE Official in Macedonia Arrested for Drug Smuggling in Italy

July 3, 2006

(Balkanalysis.com Research Service)- The phones were silent at the OSCE’s Skopje’s headquarters this afternoon as staff grappled with a new and unexpected problem: the sensational news that one of the mission’s own high officials, Georgian national Zurab Lomashvili, had been arrested for drug trafficking while abroad. Russia’s Interfax reported yesterday that the career diplomat and [...]

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