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U nedeljnom izdanju švajcarskog lista Noje cirher cajtung (NZZ) nekoliko tekstova je posvećeno sporu Beograda i Prištine. Autorke su Adelhajd Velfl, Blerta Ismaili i Tatjana Lazarević. U podnaslovu teksta za Noje Cirher Cajtung „Čvrsto ujedinjeni u nepoverenju“ naznačava se: „Kremlj je vodio režiju“. Tekst je potpisala Adelhajd Velfl: „Opasno blizu …

„Zastrašujuće poruke, nevjerovatni prizori iz Sarajeva pokazuju koliko je stanje zabrinjavajuće i koliko je to odraz svakodnevne političke ratnohuškačke retorike. Sve što u javnosti slušamo od strane pojedinih političkih elita koje kroz politike tenzija, sukoba i konflikta žele da ostvare kratkoročne proklete izborne ciljeve, preliva se preko cijelog društva i …

Ministar spoljnih poslova Srbije Ivica Dačić rekao je da Kosovo ima dovoljan broj glasova za prijem u Savet Evrope (SE), s obzirom na broj zemalja u tom telu koje su ga priznale, ali da je pitanje da li sve one smatraju da o toj temi sada treba razgovarati. „Kada je …

Direktor RTV KiM Isak Vorgučić kaže da za Danas da ne očekuje da kosovsko tužilaštvo postupi profesionalno i moralno u slučaju ranjavanja dečaka i mladića srpske nacionalnosti u Štrpcu, na koje je za Badnji dan pucao pripadnik Kosovskih bezbednosnih snaga, a kao ključan ističe pritisak albanske javnosti na KiM. S. …

The atmosphere in the joint North Macedonia-Bulgaria history commission has deteriorated, and if things don’t improve the current deadlock will continue, Petar Todorov, a Macedonian member of the commission, told BIRN. Until the spring of 2018, the members of the history commission with Bulgaria, as it is commonly called in …

Bosnia enters 2023 with a new state government and the fillip of EU candidate status. But will anything really change? To the untrained eye, 2023 might look like a year filled with long-awaited change for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a newly-minted candidate for European Union membership. In truth, say experts, …

Courts across the country have issued at least 172 warrants for the arrests of war crimes suspects, indictees and convicts who can’t be brought to justice because they are no longer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN has learned. When Sakib Mahmuljin, the former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, …

Although 2022 brought a change of government in Australia and a new public tone to its diplomacy — particularly towards relations with China, Southeast Asia and the Pacific — it also revealed Australia’s deep-seated geopolitical anxieties. The new Labor Party government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, stopped beating the …

Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană welcomed US Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar and the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues, Miroslav Lajčák, to NATO Headquarters on Monday (9 January 2023). Their meeting was part of regular consultations on the situation in Kosovo and …

Bosnia’s ten-party state-level coalition government lost two member parties on Thursday, only 20 days after it was formed in mid-December.  The Party for BiH and People’s European Alliance, NES, both from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the larger of Bosnia’s two entities, quit the coalition demanding retraction of a …