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Kosovo’s struggle centered on recognition. Montenegro’s centers on definition. Ngadhnjim Brovina On 12 May, the assembly of a municipality on the edge of Podgorica voted to annul the Republic of Kosovo. The municipality was Zeta. The vote was advanced by Milan Knežević’s Democratic People’s Party and carried by the eighteen councilors of the “For …
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by Mark Gojcaj | Tirana Examiner, US – International On Thursday morning, Sali Berisha walked into the Albanian parliament and delivered four words from the rostrum: “I came, it is done.” Democratic Party deputies applauded. Outside the chamber, he told journalists that official communication had confirmed the lifting of his American travel ban. Asked …
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By Klea Ukaj | Tirana Examiner, Washington Desk On Monday, Senator Bernie Sanders informed his nine million followers that “over a hundred thousand people” were in the streets of “tiny Albania” protesting an “environmentally disastrous luxury resort” built by Jared Kushner and his Qatari partners. This, he declared, “is what global oligarchy looks like.” …
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Daniel Serwer delivered these remarks in Tirana on 28 May 2026, at an event organized by the Albanian Institute for International Studies, where Albert Rakipi posed the question that gives the talk its title. Serwer is Professor and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and …
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The same week Washington reaffirmed Dayton and signed into law sanctions on actors who threaten Bosnia’s territorial integrity, the host of the Banja Luka summit publicly aligned Flynn’s project with Putin’s strategic posture. The architecture, in the host’s own words. Drizan Shala The First European Economic and Security Summit, convened by the Gold Institute …
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The Serbian Progressive Party’s written embrace of the Chinese Communist Party has placed before the European People’s Party a question its foundational identity was constructed to exclude. by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Pristina) The transnational party family is, in the scholarly literature on European political integration, treated as one of the more consequential institutional innovations of …
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As Brussels reduces dependence on Beijing, candidate states across the Balkans remain embedded in Chinese and Russian strategic networks the accession methodology still does not formally measure. The Balkans are no longer outside the US–China rivalry. The problem is that the EU enlargement system still behaves as if they are. by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Pristina) …
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From the Stability of Dayton to a New Era of Uncertainty by Gerta Zaimi (Tirana) On May 11, 2026, Christian Schmidt announced that he would step down as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina after nearly five years in office. As the international overseer responsible for implementing the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, Schmidt occupied …
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A permanent Hungarian Counter-Terrorism Center office opened inside Republika Srpska on 28 January 2026, without notification to the state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Magyar government inherits the file in the first weeks of its term. The case for closure within thirty days is structural. Drizan Shala On 28 January 2026, the Hungarian …
