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How to use the word balkan in a Sentence?

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It is of strategic importance for Montenegro to have U.S. and EU presence in Western Balkan so there would be no space for( influence) of those countries who do not share same values.

Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I felt that it was a matter of injustice, it's not as if a meteor dropped on the middle of the park and destroyed the lynx, it's a decision... It was a decision by the banks to contribute to the extinction of the Balkan lynx.

Ana Colovic Lesoska

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Without the help of your Government we would not have been able to close the Balkan route. I am very grateful for your support.

Foreign Minister Kurz

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Even if the refugee situation has eased at internal borders along the West Balkan route, we look with concern at the developments on the external borders of the Union.

De Maiziere

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's clear that the Balkan route is a thing of the past and no longer will or should be a place again from where people will be waved through to Germany and Austria and to the center of Europe, now the issue is alternative routes ... we are of course concerned that we'll get rising refugee numbers again as they come via Libya and Italy.

De Maiziere

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

German offshore wind has become very important for us, onshore wind in eastern Europe and the Balkan countries is currently interesting, especially in Poland and Romania.

Carlos Haertel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Onshore wind in eastern Europe and the Balkan countries is currently interesting, especially in Poland and Romania.

Carlos Haertel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As regards the Balkan route, we undertook action much too late, which resulted among others in the temporary closure of the borders inside Schengen, this is why our full cooperation with Italy and Malta today is a condition to avoid this scenario in the future.

European Council President Donald Tusk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The EU that all of us (Balkan countries) are aspiring to, it has lost its magic power, yes we all want to join, but it is no longer the big dream it was in the past.

Aleksandar Vucic

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's important that every country on the Balkan route acts more restrictively, a backlog on the Slovenian side... cannot be ruled out.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The current situation when up to 3,000 people come to Greece every day certainly is not what we had in mind, the Visegrad Four (V4) realizes how important it is to focus on the west Balkan route and show solidarity with the west Balkan countries and help them with protection of their borders.

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Poles and the Balkan states have found ways to receive LNG, let some time pass and see if the diversification is real. They will come to a point when they start to count their money.

Alexander Rahr

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The union has been expanded to the east. But it would be a tragic and a historic mistake to leave out the Balkan countries, the admission of Albania, Montenegro and Serbia into the Union must have priority.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is not just a case of Greece not processing those (asylum) claims, but they are actively doing their very best to get the refugees to move on to central Europe as soon as possible, the Western Balkan countries are overrun, overwhelmed and have been left to their own devices.

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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