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by Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) On May 19, 2021, the United States designated Sali Berisha persona non grata under Section 7031(c) of the State Department appropriations act. The charge: significant corruption, misappropriation of public funds, interference with public processes, a sustained pattern of self-protection at the expense of accountability. His wife, his son, and …
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A Serbian state-backed film turns contested allegations into lived experience — a case study in how memory competition is reshaping policymakers’ understanding of Kosovo’s past. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Serbia did not just premiere a film on March 17. It staged a message. Arno Gujon promoted it personally. Ana Brnabić attended. A companion exhibition …
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Albania and Kosovo were among six NATO members to publicly back the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. In Washington, that kind of signaling costs less than they think — and in Brussels, it costs more. By Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) Small states have a well-practiced move in moments of crisis: declare loyalty early, loudly, and …
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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 …
