Balkans

At a historic summit next week in Washington, NATO will be celebrating its 75th anniversary and strategizing how to further aid Ukraine against Russia’s full-scale invasion. Heads of state and government from the alliance’s 32 members — including Sweden, which just joined in March, and Finland, which joined in April …

Some of the refugees from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s have dedicated their lives to helping others who were also driven from their homes by conflict. On March 26, 1999, two days after NATO began bombing Yugoslavia, Marin Din Kajdomcaj was seized and tortured by Serb paramilitaries in his …

The appointment of a ruling party apparatchik as head of the powerful Security Information Agency suggests the intelligence service will remain a loyal servant of Serbia’s president.The Serbian public was informed last week that the National Security Council, NSC, chaired by President Aleksandar Vucic, had approved the appointment of Vladimir …

After the overwhelming victory in the political and presidential elections last May 8, VMRO DPMNE and its new allies are starting to outline the priorities of the new government. The future of the country’s European integration, also linked to difficult constitutional reforms, remains a puzzle with a difficult solution After …

Increasing political and financial pressure threatens the independence and editorial autonomy of many media outlets in Serbia. We interviewed Irina Milutinović, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade and co-author of the Country Report on Serbia of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2023 According to the Serbia …

Despite the inconsistencies and uncertainties around the agreement signed between Rome and Tirana for the reception of migrants on Albanian soil, and while awaiting the judgment of the European Court, work on the two centres has already begun in Gjadër and Shëngjin. We went to see how they were progressing …

• Moscou est convaincu que les straussiens vont tenter en Serbie, et non pas en Transnistrie (comme initialement prévu par la Rand Corporation1), la prochaine manche contre la Russie. Il s’agirait de provoquer la 3ème Guerre mondiale en rejouant l’incident de Temes Kubin qui succéda d’un mois à l’assassinat de …

A joint investigation by BIRN and Haaretz has identified six Israeli military flights from Belgrade to Beersheba this year that coincided with Serbian arms exports to Israel worth 15.7 million euros, arms that risk being used in violating international humanitarian law in Gaza. Shortly after 2 p.m. on February 5, …

On the occasion of the declaration adopted at the “All-Serbian Assembly” in Belgrade, the U.S. State Department assessed that some of the provisions in that declaration are a continuation of Republika Srpska’s attempts to violate the Dayton Peace Agreement and destabilize Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. The United States …

The Bosnian Croats’ reaction and that of their neighboring eponymous NATO-member state to Republika Srpska’s planned separation will be the most pivotal factor for determining whether the West resorts to military force to stop the Serbs. President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik confirmed in an interview with TASS at last …