The EU is Watching the Balkans Come Undone (Balkan Insight)
Outbursts of violence, illiberal leaders and failures to reform mean Brussels must wake up to the fact that the Balkans are not headed towards EU membership but towards instability. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/the-eu-is-watching-the-balkans-come-undone-01-23-2018
Read More →Kosovo Commission Calls Montenegro Border Deal Damaging Deal (Balkan Insight)
The Kosovo government’s new commission on the border deal with Montengro has attacked the agreement, saying it endorsed a border that did not follow Kosovo’s previous border, when it was a province of Yugoslavia. Kosovo’s government on Monday backed a report by a new commission tasked with re- assessing the controversial border deal with Montenegro […]
Read More →Serbia Pulled Diplomats From Macedonia Over ‘Offensive’ Actions (Balkan Insight)
Serbian leaders say they withdrew diplomatic staff from Macedonia after receiving intelligence about ‘offensive actions’ planned against Serbia. Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian President, on Monday said Serbian embassy staff were withdrawn from Macedonia after Belgrade obtained “evidence of very offensive intelligence against the institutions of Serbia”. Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic gave a similar statement to the […]
Read More →Former Kosovo PM Rexhepi Dies in Turkey
Bajram Rexhepi, the first elected Prime Minister of Kosovo, has died in a hospital in Turkey after suffering a stroke earlier this year. Bajram Rexhepi, the first elected Prime Minister of Kosovo following the 1999 war of independence, died on Monday at the age of 63 in a hospital in Turkey, where he had been […]
Read More →Vucic’s Latest ‘Historic’ Promise: A Deal with Kosovo (Balkaninsight)
The Serbian president has vowed to cut a deal to resolve the Kosovo issue once and for all – but don’t hold your breath waiting for it to actually happen. Former Prime Minister and now President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic likes to describe himself in Promethean terms. Whatever he does, be it opening of a […]
Read More →US Balkan Policy Will Eventually Catch Up With Reality (Balkan Insight)
At some point, Washington will be forced to re-engage with the Balkans and work out a new policy that is in tune with political reality. Not everything about Donald Trump is unpredictable. At least towards the Balkans, his policy so far has been entirely consistent in its general indifference. Not only is the region irrelevant […]
Read More →Protection Demanded for Serb War Victims’ Memorial (Balkan Insight)
An association representing families of Serbs killed during the Kosovo war said a display of victims’ photographs outside the Serbian parliament needed protection, and called for a permanent memorial. The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Murdered Civilians, Soldiers and Policemen in Kosovo from 1998 until 2000 will hang a black ribbon on the huge […]
Read More →Balkan States Suffer Decline in Media Freedom (Balkan Insight)
Reporters Without Borders’ latest World Press Freedom Index says media freedoms are diminishing in several Balkan countries, with Croatia and Serbia registering the worst declines over the past year. Reporters Without Borders, which campaigns for media freedom and journalists’ rights, said in its 2017 World Press Freedom Index, published on Wednesday, that there have been […]
Read More →War Justice Strategy for Kosovo Undermined by Divisions (Balkan Insight)
A Kosovo government-backed working group set up to draft a national strategy for dealing with the wartime past has been troubled by divisions, disputes and failures to deliver, a new report says. Kosovo’s Inter-Ministerial Working Group on Dealing with the Past and Reconciliation (IMWG) has been working since 2012 on developing a National Strategy on […]
Read More →Bumpy Ride Ahead (Balkan Insight)
A growing political crisis in Albania, fears over foreigners buying up land in Serbia and problems of youth radicalisation are among the top stories on Balkan Insight this week. Hotting Up The political scene in Albania seems to be getting more and more heated by the day. No accident, given that Parliamentary elections are only […]
Read More →Election Win ‘Toughens Vucic’s Grip on Serbia’ (Balkan Insight)
Political analysts said Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s presidential election victory gives him almost unassailable power and means the opposition must change its strategy. Analysts giving instant reactions to Vucic’s first-round poll win on Sunday suggested that his triumph puts the Progressive Party leader in an unprecedentedly strong position to take the country in his […]
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