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Europe’s energy supply is being held hostage. Its governments are checking the alliance rulebook. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) There is something almost admirable in the architecture of Europe’s response to Donald Trump’s demand for naval support in the Strait of Hormuz. Not admirable in any moral sense — but structurally admirable, the way …
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In the Balkans, a declared war is not needed to shift the balance: a new network of military cooperation, a few strategic signals, and a region that has never truly filed away its past are enough. Between Serbia, Kosovo, Albania and Croatia, the issue is not only what is happening today, but what it could …
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Vučić and Dodik are not defending Christians. They are running an equation — Muslim majority equals civilizational threat — that Washington is paying for with its own credibility. by Drizan Shala (Prishtina) On February 19, 2026, at the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Washington, the commander of the International Stabilization …
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The EU brokered a transition framework, not a retreat. Prishtina got what it wanted — just more slowly. by Fatos Kabashi (Prishtina) On the morning of March 14, Prime Minister Albin Kurti sat down with EU Special Representative Peter Sørensen and emerged with something that looked, at first glance, like a compromise. It was …
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Three Serbian citizens were sentenced at the end of December 2025 for placing pigs’ heads in front of mosques in the Paris region. An action explicitly linked to the Kremlin. by Jean-Baptiste Chastand (Le Monde) Pronounced on the sly as part of a guilty plea procedure, the verdict was revealed on Friday 6 March …
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How a decision made in Washington placed a small NATO ally on the front line of Iran’s cyber war. by Elis Cali (Michigan, USA) Iran hit the Albanian Parliament on March 10. Not with a missile, but with something that has become, over the past decade, almost as reliable: a cyberattack attributed to the …
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Through careful language and strategic ambiguity, Serbia’s president is reshaping the public memory of the Yugoslav wars. by Romir Hoxhaj (Belgrade) By the standards of Balkan political rhetoric, the interview that Aleksandar Vučić gave this week to Radio Television of Serbia might appear restrained. There were no outright denials of war crimes. No direct …
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The US Ambassador to Greece made an unannounced, private visit to Prime Minister Rama on March 11. No statement has followed. The standard read — that Washington sent a message and Tirana received it — is probably wrong. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) On the evening of Wednesday, March 11, cameras near Pyramid Park captured …
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The western Balkans’ first hypersonic-capable military power acquired its weapons in plain sight. The silence that followed is not an oversight — it is a choice. By Drizan Shala (Pristina) Photographs circulating this week show a Serbian Air Force MiG-29 carrying two Chinese CM-400AKG ballistic missiles — a weapon classified as hypersonic-capable, with a …
