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Wider Europe Briefing Plus: How The EU Sanctions On Yanukovych Fell Apart Brief #1: Perhaps Serbia And Kosovo Can Finally Make A Deal What You Need To Know: On February 27, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic endorsed an EU-facilitated proposal in Brussels titled, the “Agreement …

The Nis progressives, as N1 learns, had the task of providing around 2,000 people for the meeting in Vranje, as many as they came from Nis, according to the N1 source – and they came. Let us remind you that the N1 team recorded this morning an endless column of …

Buses with citizens from Leskovac, Vlasotinac, Bojnik and other municipalities in southern Serbia arrived in Vranje from the early hours of the morning, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, began his speech at around 11:20 a.m. “The geopolitical situation in the world has changed more drastically than during the …

Twenty years ago, state security service operatives conspired with gangsters and policemen to assassinate Serbia’s liberal-democratic Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic – and court documents show how a corrupted law enforcement system made it possible. On February 19, 2003, three men met in a café near the famous Atelje 212 Theatre …

What Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić calls the encouragement of Kosovo Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti to continue fulfilling his obligations, the citizens of Kosovo have been waiting for years. Namely, the EU Council announced on Thursday that it adopted the position in the first reading on visa-free travel for holders of …

The remains of more than 7,000 victims of the Bosnian War have not yet been found. The determination of some relatives is passed on to the next generations together with a sense of injustice and helplessness. ida’s journey to the past began about a year and a half ago when …

Rights watchdog’s 50th anniversary report painted a bleak picture of the state of freedom in several countries in the region, although Kosovo bucked the trend. The 2023 annual “Freedom in the World” report by rights organisation Freedom House says several countries in Southeast and Central Europe, except for Kosovo, saw …

Propaganda techniques aimed at shaping the perception of citizens also include the concealment of facts that do not support that propaganda. In this text Demostatus reflects on some of such historical truths. The majority of Serbian citizens perceive Russia as a friendly country that stood by the Serbian people in …

The Balkans presents a crucial junction for Tehran as an access point to Western Europe and an avenue for advancing its regional political and economic interests. The Balkan region is strategically important for western countries as a geographic bloc through which they can increase their influence in former Soviet Eastern …

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 …