Three Serbs plead not guilty in trial over gunfight incursion in Kosovo
Three Serbs plead not guilty in trial over gunfight incursion in Kosovo
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Aleksandar Vuฤiฤโs diplomacy ร la carte
The Serbian leader has proved adept at balancing the West versus China and Russia.
War of words between Serbia and Kosovo intensifies as EU talks stall
Serbian President Vuฤiฤ says he has โno relationshipโ to Kosovo leaders as EU-led talks fail to produce results.
The other European proxy war
Serbia gets pulled โ and pulls itself โ sharply between East and West. Where it ends up will help decide which Great Power emerges triumphant.
Macron wishes Serbia was more eager to join the EU
French president says Serbians “should not fear” a loss of national identity if they join the bloc.
Croatian popstar calls Serbia leader Vuฤiฤ a โdictatorโ after border ordeal
Singer says she was questioned on the Srebrenica genocide and on her support for protestors opposing EU-backed lithium mining.
Holocaust vote throws wrench in Montenegroโs EU bid
The tiny Western Balkan nation wants to join the EU by 2028 โ but tensions with Croatia could scupper that.
Bitter Balkan feuds spill into Euros once again
An Albanian player leads fans in chants against North Macedonia. Rival supporters unite to chant “Kill the Serbs”. A journalist from Kosovo receives death threats for an eagle gesture.
Balkan drama sizzles as Serbia threatens to quit Euro 2024
Punish Croatia and Albania or we’re leaving, Serbian football chief told UEFA.
German cops fear clash of โhigh-riskโ English and Serbian hooligans at Euro 2024
Beer sales and alcohol content will be limited at Gelsenkirchen stadium.
Bosnian Serbs withdraw proposed โforeign agentโ law
The Bosnian Serb government late Tuesday (28 May) withdrew a controversial draft law aimed at creating a register of non-profit groups getting international funding to designate them as foreign agents, officials said.
UN to establish Srebrenica genocide memorial day despite opposition from Serbia
The UN General Assembly voted Thursday to establish an annual day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, despite furious opposition from Bosnian Serbs and Serbia.
UN creates Srebrenica genocide memorial day, despite Serbian opposition
The UN General Assembly voted Thursday (23 May) to establish an annual day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, despite furious opposition from Bosnian Serbs and Serbia.
UN to vote on declaring Srebrenica genocide memorial day
The UN General Assembly will vote Thursday (23 May) on establishing an annual day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, despite furious opposition from Bosnian Serbs and Serbia.
UN Srebrenica resolution will cause further division in the Balkans
Reaching a consensus on memorializing the past in a way that doesnโt sow division is the best way to ensure it does not โ and cannot โ happen again.
Trumpโs son-in-law Kushner secures controversial Belgrade real estate deal
Serbian government ignores criticism to ink agreement.
Defiant regional leaders resist the road map to EU membership
The heads of Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs, North Macedonia and Georgia oppose the steps needed to join the club
A Trump-style tower in Belgrade? Serbs say it reopens war wounds.
Former U.S. presidentโs son-in-law Jared Kushner plans to redevelop an informal memorial to the 1999 NATO bombing.
US Embassy in Kosovo: Mayoral referrendum carried out โaccording to legal frameworkโ, mayors remain
The United States Embassy in Kosovo has said the country met its obligations by holding a referendum to dismiss ethnic Albanian mayors in four northern Serb-majority municipalities, despite Serbs boycotting the vote despite calling for the elections fo…
Serb majority in N. Kosovo boycotts vote on removing ethnic Albanian mayors
Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo’s tense north on Sunday boycotted an extraordinary local election on whether to oust their ethnic Albanian mayors in a territory riddled with deadly tensions.ย
Three decades on, Croatia’s Vukovar bears invisible scars of war
The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years before the genocide in Srebrenica and eight years before t…
Bosnian Serb MPs adopt a report denying the Srebrenica genocide
Bosnian Serb lawmakers adopted a report denying that the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war constituted genocide, and thousands of Serbs later protested against a UN resolution to commemorate the atrocity.
Serbia sets up dinar ATMs near Kosovo border
The Post Office Bank of Serbia has opened four makeshift bank branches, Jarinje, Bernjak, Konculj, and Merdare border crossing points, where it says Kosovo Serbs can withdraw payments from the Serbian government, such as salaries and pensions, in dinar.
Dinar row remains unresolved as Belgrade-Pristina talks continue in Brussels
Serbs in northern Kosovo reported being unable to withdraw dinars on Tuesday as queues formed outside ATMs, while negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina continued in Brussels over Kosovoโs decision to uphold its constitution and reject the use of a…
How the US broke Kosovo and what that means for Ukraine
Washington’s track record suggests it’s better at fighting wars than dealing with what follows.
Serbian opposition warns of โdictatorshipโ as European Parliament urges election probe
European Parliament resolution calls for an independent investigation of December’s election.
โThey hit me so hard I lost consciousnessโ: Serbian opposition leader tells of secret service ordeal
Arrest of pro-west politician Nikola Sanduloviฤ, who dared to apologise over Kosovo crimes, exposes tensions still festering in the BalkansBed-bound in the gargantuan brick and marble villa that is his home, Nikola Sanduloviฤ recounts the attack that h…
Serbian opposition leader left partly paralysed by attack, say family
Secret service agents allegedly beat up Nikola Sanduloviฤ after he apologised for crimes against ethnic AlbaniansThe family of a Serbian opposition leader who was allegedly beaten up while in detention by the countryโs secret service say he has been le…
Bosnian Serbs mark controversial โnational dayโ
Bosnian Serbs marked on Tuesday (9 January) their self-proclaimed “national day”, disregarding condemnations and warnings that the holiday violated Bosnia’s constitution and put peace at risk.
Brussels warns of ‘serious consequences’ as Bosnian Serbs celebrate breakaway anniversary
Brussels has sounded the alarm over celebrations planned in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-war Serb region, the Republika Srpska, to mark its breakaway anniversary.
The Guardian view on state capture in Serbia: a problem for the Balkans and for the EU | Editorial
Flawed elections confirm Europe is being strung along by a government intent on an authoritarian, ethno-nationalist agendaAccording to Serbiaโs president, Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ, the countryโs recent parliamentary elections were the โcleanest and most honest…
Serbian opposition protest election fraud
Key opposition leaders protest what they call widespread electoral fraud in Sundayโs elections.
Vuฤiฤโs key to Serbia election victory: Media capture
President uses government-friendly stations to cast himself as defender of ordinary Serbs โ on everything from Kosovo to sausage prices.
United opposition poses stern test for Vuฤiฤ in Serbiaโs election
After two mass shootings in Serbia last May, opposition parties have united against what they see as a government culture of brutality.
North Kosovo Serbs attempt to oust Albanian mayors
Citizensโ representatives of four municipalities in northern Kosovo and Metohija โ Kosovska Mitrovica, Leposaviฤ, Zveฤan and Zubin Potok โ have submitted requests for the initiation of the petition to dismiss mayors as per the process laid down by the …
Turbulence in Balkans over renaming of Dubrovnik airport
Croatians and Serbs at odds after name of airport changed to 18th-century polymath Ruฤer BoลกkoviฤThe renaming of Dubrovnikโs airport has ignited a new ethnic row between Croatians and Serbs, this time over the lineage of one of the ancient port cityโs …
Russia recruits Serbs in drive to replenish military forces in Ukraine
Anti-war whistleblowers leak list appearing to show plans to draft hundreds of Serbs to bolster Moscowโs armiesAt the beginning of September, Branko boarded a direct flight from Belgrade to Moscow.After a few days in the Russian capital, Branko, with t…
Albanian parliament passes resolution on terrorist attack in Kosovo
Albaniaโs ruling Socialist Party and the opposition Democratic Party reached a rare agreement in parliament on Thursday over a resolution condemning the terrorist attack in north Serbia, carried out on 24 September. The EU-dubbed terrorist attack saw e…
Europeโs power outage: How Israel-Hamas war exposed EUโs irrelevance
As global crises intensify, the ‘geopolitical’ Continent is left on sidelines.
Serb government evacuates Serbs from Israel
The Serbian government has evacuated Serbian citizens trapped between the warring factions of Israel and Hamas after the former declared war following last weekโs attack. Air Serbia has sent a total of three planes, the third of which returned to…
Hamasโ gift to Vladimir Putin
Russia is relishing โ and partly fueling โ chaos in a series of global flashpoints that divert the West’s energies from Ukraine.
Sanction Serbiaโs Vuฤiฤ or I wonโt meet him, Kosovoโs president says
The statements come on the heels of new hostilities between Kosovo and Serbia.
Kosovo attack: Who benefits?
Blamed on Serbia, last weekโs ambush is especially perplexing โ and itโs worth questioning whose interests it serves.
NATO builds up forces in Kosovo as tensions with Serbia rise
US calls Serbian military build-up as ‘very destabilizing’ and urges Belgrade to withdraw its forces.
Kosovo president blames Serbia for monastery attack: Report
The attackers ‘exercised the intentions and the motives of Serbia as a country and Vuฤiฤ as the leader,’ Vjosa Osmaniย tells Reuters.
US envoy says Kosovo attack โcoordinated and sophisticatedโ
US ambassador warns of further escalation after shootout.
Serbian president turns to Russia amid rising tensions with Kosovo after monastery gun battle
Russia says it is watching ‘closely’ the situation in Kosovo, which is ‘very tense’ and ‘potentially dangerous.’
Kosovo says policeman killed in attack blamed on Serbia
‘Organized crime, which is politically, financially and logistically supported from Belgrade, is attacking our state,’ Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said.
Kosovo-Serbia relations teeter once again over Vucic visit, Serb arrests
Tensions between Belgrade and Pristina are rising once again after the arrest of three ethnic Serbs in Kosovo and Serbian President Aleksander Vucic saying he will visit the country without permission, with Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla saying he wil…
Bosnian Serb leader bans international peace envoy from entering his region
Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik said on Thursday (7 September) that police in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated region have been instructed to arrest and deport an international peace envoy if he enters the Serb Republic.