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Impression of the week: Oral acceptance of the Serbian president’s European agreement on Kosovo in Brussels is illegal

The guests of “Impression of the Week”, legal experts, agreed tonight that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s oral acceptance of the European agreement on Kosovo recently in Brussels was illegal, that the president thereby exceeded his constitutional powers and that he should therefore be dismissed, given that the agreement yet legally …

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Spahović: Serbia cannot return Kosovo, it is good that Vučić accepts the European proposal

The European proposal on Kosovo is good and it is good that Aleksandar Vučić wants to accept it, because it is the path to the European Union (EU), lawyer Sead Spahović said in an interview with FoNet, indicating that Serbia cannot return Kosovo. Kosovo is a country. What kind of …

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The date that could light a spark again in the Balkans is approaching: Russia could also get involved

All elections in Montenegro are historic because it is part of their prevailing national personality, but this presidential election on Sunday, March 19, could really determine the fate and future of Montenegrin statehood, as well as Montenegrin cultural-ethnic identity. According to Jutarnji list , since the parliamentary elections in 2020, …

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Vučić authorized himself: Why do the president and the prime minister negotiate on behalf of Belgrade and Pristina, and not the prime minister and the prime minister?

Negotiations on the Kosovo issue have been going on for years, and since he came to power, they have been led by President Aleksandar Vučić. On the other hand, Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti is negotiating on behalf of Kosovo. This raises the question of why the dialogue between Belgrade and …

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In Serbia, the image of the President of Russia is being demystified: are the days of Putin’s halo in the Balkans numbered?

For more than a year, Serbia has been calculating the (non)introduction of sanctions against Russia, which has recently been shown to be a maneuver that the current government is seriously reconsidering, writes Oslobođenje . It also seems that public opinion is slowly giving way to the “Russophile euphoria”, and that …

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Kosovo Media, and Regulators, Failing on Privacy Protection

Media in Kosovo often publish the personal data of individuals in a race for clicks that ignores standards on ethics.When Indeksonline, an online media outlet in Kosovo, reported in January that a participant in a local reality TV show was HIV positive, dozens of other media ran with the story. …

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Albania Must up its Game to Meet Growing Cybersecurity Challenges

Albanians face the dual challenge of safeguarding themselves from foreign cyber-attacks – while worrying about the potential misuse of their personal data by their own government and political parties.As local elections approach in Albania, the debate surrounding the use of IT tools by political parties for collecting and utilizing citizens’ …

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Visegrad Group: No Rekindling the Romance

The once-vaunted unity of the V4 has been shattered by the war in Ukraine and Poland and Hungary’s diametrically opposed views on it. 2023 holds out little hope of a rapprochement. Central Europe’s regional grouping of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia was formed originally to coordinate positions before EU accession, …

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Poverty In the Region: One Direction

The war in Ukraine has stoked inflation and increased the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion throughout Europe. With food and energy prices remaining high in 2023, experts expect more people to fall below the poverty line. At the end of 2021, 95.4 million people in …

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People’s Party: Signing the plan for Kosovo would be a disaster and a betrayal

The Presidency of the People’s Party unanimously decided that the absolute priority in the party’s activities in the coming period will be the fight against the signing of the so-called Franco-German plan for Kosovo and Metohija, the party announced today. Signing that document would be a national disaster and treason, …

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