Balkans

NATO Reaffirms Commitment To Long-Standing Partnership With Bosnia And Herzegovina

NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Operations, Tom Goffus, welcomed the continued development of the Alliance’s relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina during a visit to Sarajevo on 29 and 30 August 2023. Mr. Goffus met with representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of the international community, including the Defence Minister, the …

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Bosnia arrest man suspected of Islamic State attack plan – prosecutors

A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Bosnia on suspicion of having links with Islamic State militants and of planning to attack Muslims from other traditions and one of their mosques, prosecutors said on Monday. The man from the central town of Zenica had been convicted in the past of …

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SLOVAK OPPOSITION CLAIMS SEP ELECTION WILL BE STOLEN – AND TOO MANY BELIEVE IT

Recent charges laid against people linked to the security services have prompted the former premier Robert Fico to allege, without evidence, the existence of a police coup and who’s allegedly behind it.Former three-time prime minister Robert Fico and his populist Smer party routinely warn that Slovakia’s early election set for …

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WHO OWNS SERBIAN ASSETS IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA?

There is a whole army of people in Serbia who are popularly called “bots” who, or maybe better to say “what”, are responsible for protecting their supreme bot, the political leader of the group subordinate to the US/UK/EU/NATO – Aleksandar Vučić. These bots are trained in the local branches of …

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Anticipating ‘unfair’ Schengen decision, MEP suggests scrapping Bulgaria-Romania border

Bulgaria and Romania should abolish border control if both countries are not accepted into the Schengen area by Christmas, Bulgarian MEP Andrey Novakov (EPP) said, as Austria, which has been blocking the two countries’ path toward the EU border-free zone, insists on its position. In December, Austria and the Netherlands …

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He is a maximalist and i would have acted differently if I were him.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama told Italy’s La Stampa that Kovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti is a fortress and maximalist and that he would have acted differently in his place. Asked if he was worried that a new front would be opened in the Balkans after the war in Ukraine, …

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Bojan Dimitrijevic: It would be a major defeat for Serbia if Kosovo joined the UN

Acceptance of the Franco-German proposal for an agreement with Kosovo is a reality that will eventually be surrender, given the context of the negotiations, historian Bojan Dimitrijevic said in an interview with FoNet’s Cosine series. Dimitrijevic believes that the best way to solve the Kosovo problem is a long-term dialogue …

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Switzerland’s Noah’s Cirher Zeitung: Ambitions for greater Serbia threaten peace in the Western Balkans, is the key in Serbia’s “Achilles Heel”

“Ambitions for the formation of a Greater Serbia threaten peace in the Western Balkans. The key to peace is in Brcko District, Serbia’s Achilles Heel,” Writes Alexander Rottert in an article for the Swiss Noah Cirherze Zeitung. “Since November 21, 1995, the term ‘Dayton’ has been denoting a special kind …

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DEMOCRACY DIGEST: HUNGARY LOCKS HORNS WITH US OVER BOSNIA, NATURALISATION LAW

Elsewhere, Czechs finally have law to protect whistleblowers; Poland adopts amended version of a panel to investigate ‘Russian influence’; and Slovaks don’t want the next government to help Ukraine militarily.US-Hungarian relations were in the news this week. After Washington imposed sanctions on four top Bosnian Serb officials for undermining a …

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Democracy Digest: Orban’s Speech Riles the Neighbours

Elsewhere, Poland continues to talk tough over preventing Ukrainian grain from flooding its market; radicalised Czech pensioners rise up, again; Slovak paediatricians to no longer take on shifts in children’s emergency rooms from next week. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban did not make the international headlines with this year’s speech in …

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