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Sputnik Srbija has told its readers how to hear the EU’s new ambassador before he has said anything. Belgrade tested the method on KFOR’s commander three weeks ago; the platform is one Brussels asked it to close. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) Sputnik Srbija does not load in Kosovo. It loads in Tirana, in Serbian, …
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Friedrich Merz says the people behind Leipzig will pay. A Serbian court has already convicted Serbian nationals for an operation in Berlin directed by Russian intelligence. Germany’s most indulged Balkan partner remains the exception. By Drizan Shala (Security Desk) On 31 August the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Subotica, near the Hungarian border, issued …
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Europe can impose costs. Serbia has learned what raises them. Albania has not learned what happens to an applicant that never does. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On the afternoon of 1 September, at a press conference in Berlin, Germany’s interior minister stated the grounds on which the Federal Republic held Russia responsible for the …
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Jasmin Mujanović mapped a region’s contradictions. Read backwards, they form something more dangerous: a method the world has seen before. By Ngadhnjim Brovina (Prishtina) On Friday the political scientist Jasmin Mujanović compressed the diplomacy of three theatres into a single post on X. We reproduce it in full, because its method is accumulation and …
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Bulgaria’s relations with Albania and Kosovo are unusual in the Balkans. They are not burdened by territorial disputes, competing historical claims or a legacy of bilateral conflict. This gives Sofia, Tirana and Pristina political space for cooperation that is rare in the region. by Dimitar Keranov Bulgaria’s relations with Albania and Kosovo are unusual …
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By Ferit Hoxha Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania. There are moments in history when the future of a country is determined by a single document. Such agreements are rare, but their impact is felt for generations. The Ohrid Framework Agreement is one of them. On 13 August 2001, …
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Ukraine spent four years teaching small nations that principles do not depend on power. On Saturday one of them learned who the lessons were for. By Kadri Kryeziu (Prizren) No leader of this century has preached the morality of borders with more force than Ukraine’s president, and none has earned the pulpit more. To …
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Brussels condemned a Serbian minister’s sentence about 1998 and missed the clause about the future. Europe has missed this program before. Twice, at Berlin and at London, it certified the outcome instead. By Ngadhnjim Brovina (Pristina) Brussels condemned the wrong sentence. Within two days of Snežana Paunović’s interview on Kurir, the Commission had declared …
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Ukraine sought another European partner in Belgrade. Within twenty-four hours, one Serbian minister had already assured Moscow where Serbia’s loyalties lay. The conference produced photographs; the contradiction was the strategy. By Ngadhnjim Brovina (Pristina) On Monday, at the Innoprom industrial fair in Yekaterinburg, Serbia’s minister for economic cooperation with Russia, Nenad Popović, told TASS what …
