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The US expects Serbia and Kosovo to fulfill everything agreed in the previous negotiations, including the formation of the Community of Municipalities with a Serbian majority, the State Department told the Voice of America this evening in response to a question about the implementation of what was agreed in Ohrid. …

Even today, ten years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, he insists that this and other agreements must be fulfilled and the Association of Serbian Municipalities be formed, the attitude and memory of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, regarding that first agreement on the principles of normalization of …

Now it can be seen that, after ten years, the Brussels process has returned to the beginning in a political sense. Once again, the Serbs are outside the institutions and are boycotting the elections, and they were returned to that again in 2013. The government in Belgrade got ten years, …

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, after the meeting with the President of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, said that the statements of the Undersecretary of the State Department, James Rubin, about Serbia being one of the centers for Russian disinformation are far from the truth. Vučić pointed out that …

The other day, Minister Tomislav Momirović was sent on national television to tell citizens how before Easter they can buy the cheapest malted eggs in Europe – ten pieces for 129 dinars. The regime’s idea that Momirović acts as a market barometer is peculiar. Not because the minister has the …

Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia, is trying to maintain his importance and role on the international level through the issue of Kosovo – believes Rada Trajković, president of the European Movement of Serbs from Kosovo and advisor to the Minister for Communities and Return in the Government of Kosovo. …

The collapse in the hitherto close Polish-Hungarian relations has been collateral damage of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Warsaw expects serious gestures from Budapest to repair ties, but Orban hopes the estrangement is just a temporary blip. For years, Russia has been the elephant in the room during talks between Poland …

The case of a convicted rapist who fled Bosnia and Herzegovina and evaded a jail sentence highlights yet again the problem of war crimes convicts and defendants dodging justice by escaping to countries that will not extradite them. After being convicted, Ilija Juric never showed up to serve his sentence …

The anti-Albanian campaigns in the British media today are all too reminiscent of the targeting of Albanians in Italy and Greece 30 years ago – and need to be fought, not indulged.The recent anti-Albanian campaign in the UK has pushed Albanian politicians and intellectuals to take a stand in defence …

The resignations of four State Department officials protesting US inaction on the Bosnian war helped turn the tide of US opinion – but Bosnia has never recognised or rewarded their principled action.In late August 1992, George Kenney resigned as acting head of the Yugoslavia desk at the US State Department. …