Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić had a brief conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, although there was no formal bilateral meeting between them, the Serbian leader said on Tuesday. Instead of attending the Berlin Process Summit in Tirana, Vučić travelled to China to sign a series of trade deals, …

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called for the additional KFOR forces deployed to Kosovo to ‘prioritise border security between Kosovo and Serbia, he said during a meeting with NATO’s peacekeeping mission commander in Kosovo, Özkan Ulutaş. The discussions between Kurti and Ulutaş revolved around the security situation in Kosovo, …

The Bulgarian government will soon hold talks with its European partners about imposing a new tax on Russian gas transiting its territory, it was announced on Wednesday, a move that predictably angered Serbia and Hungary. At the end of last week, Bulgaria imposed a special ‘energy tax’ of €10/MWh on …