On 12 August 1996, in application of the Dayton Peace Accords and as part of the IFOR (Implementation Force), Italian troops are stationed at a checkpoint in Sarajevo.

On 28 and 29 June 1991, during the meeting of the European Council in Luxembourg, the Heads of State or Government of the Twelve refer for the first time to the military and humanitarian situation in the Balkans.

On 3 October 1992, Lord David Owen, European Union Co-Chairman of the International Conference on Former Yugoslavia, gives an account of his mission to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, emphasising human rights violations in the country.

On 3 October 2005, the Council gives the go-ahead to the opening of accession negotiations with Croatia on the basis of a positive assessment of Croatia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). This photograph shows Ivo Sanander, Croatian Prime Minister and Head of the Croatian Delegation, and Carla del Ponte, ICTY Prosecutor, at the press conference held following the opening of the Accession Conference in the margins of the Council.

‘Memories of Srebrenica’. In 1999, the cartoonist Behrendt considers the powerlessness of the Dutch blue helmets of UNPROFOR to prevent the massacre of the Bosniak citizens of the town of Srebrenica perpetrated in July 1995 by the Bosnian Serb Army led by General Ratko Mladic.

Le 26 juin 2001, le Conseil d'association UE-Slovénie tient sa troisième session à Luxembourg, sous la présidence d'Anna Lindh, ministre des affaires étrangères de Suède et présidente en exercice du Conseil de l'Union européenne. Dimitrij Rupel, ministre des affaires étrangères de la Slovénie, conduit la délégation slovène. A cette occasion, le Conseil d'association examine l'état de préparation de la Slovénie en vue de son adhésion à l'Union européenne et passe en revue les progrès accomplis par le pays dans le cadre de la stratégie de préadhésion et réfléchit aux priorités pour la suite des travaux à mener.