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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. …

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’ …

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, …

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 …

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, …

The Provincial Committee of the Serbian Movement Dveri and the Movement for the Defense of Kosovo and Metohija assessed today that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, “committed a coup” because he “usurped powers that do not belong to him, especially by accepting the Franco-German ultimatum”. “This is no longer …

In the negotiations with Kosovo, Serbia must extract the maximum from the minimum, and the minimum is the fact that it entered into a war with NATO and lost it, Ivan Vejvoda, a permanent associate of the Vienna Institute for Social Sciences told FoNet, who sees a compromise in the …

Special Representative of the European Union Miroslav Lajčak confirmed today that the next meeting between Kosovo Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, with the mediation of EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borelj, will take place in Ohrid. Lajčak, after the meeting with the Vice President …

Despite Ukraine’s achievements, experts believe that a frozen conflict or a poor ceasefire is most likely. Here’s why. The war in Ukraine evokes a strong sense of historical déjà vu. Although filmed in a more modern way, with mobile phones and drones, the high-resolution footage of artillery duels and trench …

In recent weeks and months, especially after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 last year, the pressure of Western diplomats on Belgrade and Pristina to implement the Brussels Agreement from 2013 as soon as possible has increased dramatically. In other words, western diplomats want to …