Nations in Transit 2017: The False Promise of Populism (Freedom House)
Populists’ stunning electoral victories in Europe and the United States have shaken the post–Cold War order in Europe and Eurasia, but they could ultimately reinvigorate liberal democracy. In 2016, populist successes at the polls in Western Europe and the United States rocked the world, not least the countries of postcommunist Europe and Eurasia covered by […]
Read More →“Talks needed with outcome not rigged in Pristina’s favor” (B92)
“Washington’s policy in the Balkans never made much sense,” as the US “wanted to keep some nations together and dismantle others.” This is what international politics contributor for the Forbes, Doug Bandow, wrote for the media outlet’s website, under the headline: “Bungled Intervention In Kosovo Risks Unraveling: A New Deal Needed For Peace”. “The only […]
Read More →Balkan Mission Impossible for Mogherini (Euractive)
Europe’s foreign policy supremo, Federica Mogherini, is off on a mission even more difficult than getting Iran and the US to agree their nuclear deal, writes Denis MacShane. Denis MacShane is the UK’s former Minister for Europe and the Balkans who visits the region regularly. Mogherini is in the Western Balkans which still more than […]
Read More →Reality Check (BalkanInsight)
Political crises frequently crowd out economic problems from the news agenda in the Balkans, but this week we bring a number of important economic and business themes to the usual mix of political and diplomatic intrigue from the region. Local and international observers of Bosnia are typically preoccupied with the country’s constant political crises, whether […]
Read More →Balkan Jihadi Warriors Remain Safe on the Net (Balkan Insight)
While Balkan countries have curbed the flow of fighters to foreign wars, the online space is still a haven for Islamist extremists who remain out of reach there, recruiting and spreading messages of hate. Fatjona Mejdini, Marija Ristic, Denis Dzidic, Ervin Qafmolla, Sinisa Jakov Marusic, Natalia Zaba BIRN Tirana, Sarajevo, Pristina, Skopje, Belgrade“What makes the […]
Read More →Bungled Intervention In Kosovo Risks Unraveling: A New Deal Needed For Peace (Forbes)
Washington’s policy in the Balkans never made much sense. The U.S. wanted to keep some nations together and dismantle others. American officials deplored ethnic cleansing in some cases and ignored other instances. The only principle which explained Washington’s actions was that the Serbs always lose. With Kosovo and Serbia now shouting threats of war, it’s […]
Read More →Multi-ethnic States Have Failed in the Balkans (Balkan Insight)
In response to Jasmin Mujanovic’s comment article, ‘New Partitions are the Last Thing the Balkans Need,’ Timothy Less maintains that the Balkan countries lack even the most basic elements needed to make multi-ethnicity work, so it is time to consider a new territorial settlement. The starting point when formulating policy is to recognise the world […]
Read More →Welcome to EUgoslavia (Politico)
BERLIN — Metternich, the godfather of pan-European statecraft, once famously quipped that the Balkans started just beyond Vienna’s ramparts. In the emerging EU of 27, the Balkans are everywhere. The European Union could always be neatly divided into regional blocs that, for the most part, pursued a common agenda, whether the northern group around Germany […]
Read More →Svilanović: Western Balkan region to face certain delay in EU accession (InSerbia)
The Western Balkan region will face a certain delay in the EU accession process post-Brexit because a number of institutions that would have dealt with it will now have to deal with other matters, Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretary General Goran Svilanović said Wednesday. “That is the reality,” Svilanović told a Tanjug reporter when asked […]
Read More →Opinion of the western EU members is an attitude, and the eastern – a problem (Politika)
EU lives two realities. One is in our declarations, where everything is all right, and the other one on the ground where nothing is well. We say that there is Schengen regime. “Schengen” implies the protection of borders, that no one can enter, and that we do not know who he is and why he […]
Read More →Washington’s Balkan power play (Politico.eu)
NATO’s invitation to Montenegro this week to join the military alliance was more than a kindness to a small ex-Yugoslav republic. It was another sign of a battle for influence in the Balkans between Russia and the U.S. http://www.politico.eu/article/washingtons-balkan-power-play/
Read More →Serbian PM opens OSCE conference in Belgrade, warns about “Balkan powder keg” (B92, RTK2)
Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening of the OSCE Ministerial Council that the Balkans remains “a powder keg that needs only a spark to explode again.” “I must express my concern for the stability in the Balkans. Serbia is a stable country, but several crisis situation in the region are enough – in Macedonia, Montenegro, […]
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