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 on May 10- 13.
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 Nicic, a popular TV anchor and the head of the Society of [Serbian] Journalists of Kosovo.
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 as the key figure and a real power-holder in the Serb-run north of Kosovo.
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 important report from the Atlantic Council – “Balkans Forward: A New US Strategy for the Region.”
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-01-23-2018Balkan leaders joined those of other countries in condemning the terrorist attacks in Spain on Thursday that left at least 14 people dead and expressing their condolences to the victims.