Balkans in a sentence

She recalled the importance of the EU-Western Balkans summit in 2018 and its results as well as the Western Balkans digital agenda, innovation program and investment plans.

EU heads of State and Government and those of the Western Balkans are expected to gather on May 6, 2020 for an EU-Western Balkans' leaders meeting to tackle common challenges.

Balkans The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Division advancing into the Balkans during 1941 In March 1941, a major Italian counterattack against Greek forces failed, and Germany was forced to come to the aid of its ally.

However, the regions of Trieste and Istria are not usually considered part of the Balkans by Italian geographers, due to a definition of the Balkans that limits its western border to the Kupa River.

Watt, p. 275 The Turks assured Kroll that they had no objection to Germany making the Balkans their economic sphere of influence, but would regard any move to make the Balkans into a sphere of German political influence as most unwelcome.

Watt, p. 309 Because the Balkans were rich in raw materials such as iron, zinc and oil that could help Germany survive a British blockade, it was viewed as highly important by the Allies to keep German influence in the Balkans to a minimum.

Watt, p. 310 The Anglo-French effort to include the Balkans into the "peace front" had always rested on the assumption that the cornerstone of the "peace front" in the Balkans was to be Turkey, the regional super-power.

Amongst the event’s dynamic line-up of performances are Raka, an eight-piece ensemble that plays traditional music from the Balkans, Ayan De First and The Oduduwa Talking Drummers, who present authentic Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa music from Nigeria.

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels in what is seen as an opportunity to reaffirm the EU membership’s perspective of the Western Balkans.

He deemed it “certainly positive for Russia”, as it prevented the latter from happening, even Serbia “an ally in the Balkans”.

In his statement, Sztaray said that the stability of the Western Balkans is of Hungary’s primary national security interest.

July 11 - Bloomberg (Priscila Azevedo Rocha and Elena Mazneva): "Heat is blanketing Europe from Germany to the Balkans, putting pressure on the region's energy and transport systems as rivers such as the Rhine and Rhone are impacted.

Rotterdam police have been involved in a cross-border campaign to break up what Europol describes as a “highly violent criminal cell from the Western Balkans” which was involved in the “large-scale trafficking of drugs and firearms across Europe”.

Russia wagered the lives of its large male population for geopolitical gains in the Balkans and Black Sea, but, alas, early successes on the Eastern Front were superseded by the disaster at Tannenberg.

Since sources claim that Phrygians migrated from the Balkans, archaeological finds of Balkan pottery in western Anatolia in the 12th century BC is likely a trace of this migration.

Since then, the unity initiated in Warsaw has extended to other Nordic and Central European left parties, and more recently to left groups in the Balkans.

Terra Balcanica is a polymetallic exploration company targeting large-scale mineral systems in the Balkans of southeastern Europe.

The club is based in the country, but trains players from all over the Balkans and Europe.

The European Union should get ready to admit new members from eastern Europe and the Balkans by 2030, EU chief Charles Michel argued Monday.

Weinberg sophomore Jovana Lakic decided to take Turkish because she’s from the Balkans and feels connected to Turkey because of the regions’ shared history under Ottoman rule.