Balkans

Bulgaria is at risk of being without combat aviation for the next two years as maintenance of its outdated MiG29 fighters will not be completed before it receives its first F-16s from the US. By the end of this year, Bulgaria’s eight MiG-29 fighter jets are to be grounded, and …

The government and associations are at odds with dealing with the recent sharp increase in migrant crossings, like the fivefold increase in Trieste between 2021 and 2022, with the first favouring expulsions while the other advocates for greater redistribution across the country. On 3 January, the prefect of Trieste, Annunziato …

Ko je bio “sveti” Sava?: “Sveti” Sava ili po rođenju Rastko Nemanjić bio je najmlađi sin začetnika dinastije Nemanjića i brat prvog srpskog kralja, Stefana… …Stefana je krunisao i pokatoličio rimski papa Honorije III 1217. godine. Tome se usprotivio sam Sava kao i veliki dio svećenstva, jer je Sava nastojao …

Insistiranje međunarodne zajednice na formiranju Zajednice srpskih opština na Kosovu je otvorilo temu formiranja zajednice Bošnjaka, kako na Kosovu i Srbiji, tako i u Republici Srpskoj SDA-ov parlamentarac Šemsudin Mehmedović je pozvao na jednu takvu inicijativu. “Pozivam na Inicijativu za usklađivanje statusa Bošnjaka u regionu sa dostignutim statusom Srba u …

Model rumunskog zdravstva zbog kojeg njihovi lekari ne pomišljaju na odlazak u Nemačku “Nismo mi Evropska unija, pa da možemo da plaćamo zdravstvene radnike kao Rumuni” kaže za Nova.rs dr Mirsad Đerlek, državni sekretar u Ministarstvu zdravlja, koji je najavio nove pravilnike po kojima će se vrednovati angažovanje hirurga i …

„Spremi smo da prihvatimo koncept i da radimo na implementaciji predloženog sporazuma“, doslovno je izjavio predsednik Srbije 20. januara. Ako imamo u vidu da je ovo izjavio, a njegova reč vredi više od nečije zakletve, onda je sasvim jasno čemu je bila upriličena predstava u Skupštini Srbije. Akcija – Spasi …

Cherie Blair’s law firm has made hundreds of thousands of euros representing governments in Albania and Serbia, which have also been advised by Tony Blair’s consultancy. Villa 30 in Tirana’s high-end Blloku neighborhood has a a dark past as the place where Albanian former communist Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu – …

A concern that Italy is not adequately exploiting its assets in the Balkans has again started to agitate Italian politicians.According to Dario D’Urso, a contributor to the CeSPI report, Italy played a leading role in the Balkans in the 1990s and early 2000s thanks to bilateral relations and multibilateral endeavours. …

Minority Serbs in Kosovo already enjoy considerable rights under the country’s constitution. Creating an association of Serb-majority municipalities will only further entrench the ethnic divide.One topic currently dominates the so-called dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia – the political association of Kosovo municipalities with a Serb majority, otherwise known as the …

Accession to the EU in 2013 and to the Schengen zone on January 1 has meant a serious upgrade when it comes to policing Croatia’s border with Serbia. Illegal crossing are unlikely to go undetected, but that does not stop some from trying. The external frontier of Europe’s passport-free Schengen …