“I’ve seen more than ever before, and came back concerned” (B92, Beta, Tanjug)
The Balkans can easily become one of the chessboards where the big power game can be played, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday. Mogherni made the remark following the meeting of EU’s Foreign Affairs Council, when a reporter asked how deep the concern was about Russian interference in the Western Balkans – […]
Read More →Worrying Signs Just Keep Trickling Out (RFE)
Warnings that another conflict may erupt in the Balkans have been coming in from former diplomats and think tanks in recent weeks. http://www.rferl.org/a/balkans-without-borders-worrying-signs-conflict-knezevic/28353760.html
Read More →Balkans becoming ‘chessboard’ for big powers: EU (AFP/Yahoo News)
The EU warned Friday that the Western Balkans risk becoming a “chessboard” in a game between major powers, as Britain accused Russia of meddling in the region. https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/34578172/balkans-becoming-chessboard-for-big-powers-eu/#page1
Read More →Serbian Media Blame Macedonian Crisis on Albanian ‘Terrorists’ (Balkan Insight)
The political crisis in Macedonia is receiving extensive coverage in Serbia, where the media are accusing ethnic Albanians of seeking Macedonia’s destruction, terrorism and a ‘Greater Albania’ with help of the West. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbian-media-accusing-albania-amidst-macedonia-crisis-03-06-2017
Read More →‘An extremely explosive combination in the Balkans’ (DW)
Secessionist aspirations, anti-government protests and ethnic provocations: the Balkans, it seems, cannot find peace, the Heidelberg-based political scientist Silvia Steininger tells DW. http://www.dw.com/en/an-extremely-explosive-combination-in-the-balkans/a-37832715
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 6 March
• Conference calls for fighting of religious extremism (TV21)
• Opposition: Thaçi is trying to get credit from Army establishment (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Daut Haradinaj: It suits Isa Mustafa if Ramush is not here (Klan Kosova)
• Opposition says that RTK is serving Kadri Veseli (KTV)
• Mogherini considers situation in Western Balkans as tense (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Mogherini’s visit encouraging for ASMM establishment (RTK2)
• Jevtic visits RTK2 channel, pledges Ministry’s help (RTK2)
• KLA War Veterans want changes of Law on Special Court (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova)
Lajcak: Two Balkans countries facing dissolution (Koha)
Slovak Foreign Minister, Miroslav Lajcak, said on Monday that the European Union is not being serious when it comes to discussing enlargement, that it has given up on the Western Balkans and that as a result two Balkans countries are facing dissolution and another three countries are in deep political crises. Although Lajcak did not […]
Read More →Headlines 7 March
U.S. wants KSF transformation through Constitution (Koha Ditore)
Veseli: We are days away from having an army (Klan Kosova)
“Army unites Kosovo political spectrum” (Zeri)
Serbs afraid of Thaci’s Plan B (Lajmi)
Serbian List against creation of Kosovo army (Kosova Sot/Zeri)
Kosovo government pledges to submit border demarcation in March (Koha)
Delawie: Extremism and terrorism, present in every country (Epoka)