Serbia

Germany: Serbia vote fraud ‘unacceptable’ for a candidate to join the EU

A team of international observers on Monday (18 December) slammed Serbian elections over a string of “irregularities”, including “vote buying” and “ballot box stuffing”, after the opposition accused the ruling party of committing voter fraud. The accusations aired by the monitors, which included representatives from the Organization for Security and …

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Extraordinary Elections: Bid To Restore Tycoons’ Rule In Serbia? – Analysis

Extraordinary parliamentary elections in Serbia, extraordinary elections for the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and extraordinary local elections for the capital city of Belgrade and an additional 65 local self-governments will take place on 17 December 2023. According to analysts, these elections are considered the most important since …

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Elections In Serbia: Prologue To An All-Out War? – OpEd

Trotsky, once a close friend of Lenin, is believed to have said: “You may not be interested in the war, but the war is interested in you.” This is the situation in South-Eastern Europe which the West had neglected for a long time, tolerating Serbia to weave illusions about the …

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“Swiss diplomacy in Kosovo is not visible”

SWI swissinfo.ch: Often using military force, Russia has imposed pro-Russian separatist movements in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria and, of course, in eastern Ukraine. However, Putin has always defended himself against criticism, claiming that NATO intervened in Kosovo in 1999. Is that comparison fair? Oliver Jens Schmitt: No, they’re two completely …

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Kosovo-Serbia: The Odd Couple Who Made Oddity A Science – OpEd

It is doubtful that Kosovo’s Prime Minister Kurti and Serbia’s President Vucic will agree on anything unless the European Council changes the dynamic of the Serbia-Kosovo conflict by rewarding the side that cooperates, which would pressure the non-cooperative party to modify its position Since Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia …

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Von der Leyen says Serbia must normalise relations with Kosovo to join EU

The European Union is counting on Serbia joining its ranks in the future but Belgrade and Pristina need to normalise relations, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said after meeting President Aleksandar Vučić during her official visit to Serbia. “Enlargement is at the top of the EU agenda. This …

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Vucic has ‘friendly’ meeting with Putin in China

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić had a brief conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, although there was no formal bilateral meeting between them, the Serbian leader said on Tuesday. Instead of attending the Berlin Process Summit in Tirana, Vučić travelled to China to sign a series of trade deals, …

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Kosovo wants KFOR support on Serbian border

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called for the additional KFOR forces deployed to Kosovo to ‘prioritise border security between Kosovo and Serbia, he said during a meeting with NATO’s peacekeeping mission commander in Kosovo, Özkan Ulutaş. The discussions between Kurti and Ulutaş revolved around the security situation in Kosovo, …

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Battles in Kosovo

A deadly circus took place in Kosovo. Adventurism and splurge that brought the possibility of embargo, isolation, visas and – war back to the already dreary reality. Obviously, we didn’t have enough, so the deder of one and the same. And nothing is clear to anyone, even though it was …

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Kurti on the attack in Banjska: Serbia tried to provoke a war, but failed

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, said that Serbia tried to provoke a new war, but failed to do so, and that the Serbs who clashed with the Kosovo Police in Banjka were from the Northern Brigade and Civil Protection, and that their leader was ” little Prigozhin” Milan …

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