Facebook Pulls Pages Linked to Rightists Active in Balkans (Balkan Insight)
The social media giant has removed a network of pages, with millions of followers, tied to the Knights Templar International, a ‘Christian militant’ organisation active in the Balkans. See at:http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/facebook-pulls-pages-linked-to-rightists-active-in-balkans-10-03-2018
Read More →Serbian Students Doubtful About Deal on Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
While some support a solution to the Kosovo dispute as a way for Serbia to move forward, others are hostile to concessions – and indifferent to the prospect of European Union membership. See at:http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbian-students-doubtful-about-deal-on-kosovo-09-17-2018
Read More →Kosovo Deal Will Challenge States That Denied Recognition (Balkan Insight, BIRN)
If Serbia and Kosovo manage to solve their decade-long dispute, the five EU countries that did not recognize Kosovo may have to adjust their foreign policies fast. The five EU countries that have not recognized Kosovo might find themselves embarrassed and having to adjust their policies rapidly if Serbia and Kosovo agree on a final […]
Read More →Changing Kosovo’s Borders Will Merely Reward Serbia’s Bullying (Balkan Insight)
A final agreement should be based on devolving power to Serb-majority municipalities – not on territorial swaps that will only create further regional instability. See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/changing-kosovo-s-borders-will-merely-reward-serbia-s-bullying-09-04-2018
Read More →Missing Persons: Balkan Families Suffer as Search Goes On (Balkan Insight)
To mark International Day of the Disappeared, relatives of people who went missing in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Albania during the 1990s wars or under Communism describe the agony of waiting decades to discover their loved ones’ fate. See more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/missing-persons-balkan-families-suffer-as-search-goes-on-08-29-2018
Read More →Serbia Must Hold Kosovo Deal Referendum, Experts Say (Balkan Insight)
Serbian law experts say that any final deal with Kosovo, changing the country’s borders, will affect the constitution and must therefore go to a referendum. As Serbian leaders hint at a referendum on the future status of Kosovo, legal experts insists that the status of the former province must be regulated by changes to Serbia’s […]
Read More →Bosnia will be next if Kosovo is partitioned (Balkan Insight)
Serbian and Bosnian Serb leaders will not be appeased by the partition of Kosovo – merely emboldened to try and unravel Bosnia as well. Aleksandar Vucic’s government in Serbia has been sabotaging negotiations with Kosovo over the latter’s international status. That much is apparent to anyone who has followed the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue since its inception […]
Read More →Kosovo Furore Could Hit Vucic and Thaci’s Popularity (Balkan Insight)
By Perparim Isufi, Maja Zivanovic BIRN Pristina, Belgrade Analysts say recent heated rhetoric about the possibility of border changes will affect the popularity of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci – but probably not enough to unseat them. The recent intensive exchange of statements about border ‘corrections’ between Serbia and Kosovo […]
Read More →Serbia Bans Entry of Kosovo Karate Team (Balkan Insight)
Amid rising tensions between the two neighbours, Serbia has banned the Kosovo karate team from entering the country, preventing it from taking part in the European Karate Championship in Novi Sad. Kosovo’s karate team was not allowed to enter Serbia on Wednesday morning for the European Karate Championship which will be held in Novi Sad […]
Read More →Speaking Out Remains Dream for Kosovo’s Serbian Media (Balkan Insight)
Like the communities they serve, Kosovo’s Serbian language media are financially dependent, fragmented – and torn between rival political influences. “We work in a time and a place where democracy and the right to hold a different opinion are still not fully accepted as a given, which makes a journalist’s work extremely difficult,” says Budimir […]
Read More →Ivanovic Named Radoicic as North Kosovo Dark Ruler (Balkan Insight)
Murdered Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic named Milan Radoicic – a debt collector and truck owner close to Serbia’s ruling party – as a key figure in the intimidating system of power in northern Kosovo. In his last interview with BIRN in October, Oliver Ivanovic, the Kosovo Serb politician murdered in January, named Milan Radoicic […]
Read More →Atlantic Council Report Does Not Take Balkans ‘Forward’ (Balkan Insight)
As the first part of a debate on a major Atlantic Council report, Edward P. Joseph says ‘Balkans Forward’ proposes some worryingly retrograde steps. “Though the Balkan region still broadly yearns to join the West (and its institutions), the final outcome can no longer be taken for granted.” This is the clarion call of the […]
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