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Vučić From China: I'm Ready, I May Resign Soon - Novi Sad Student Protests Have Been Going for 18 Months

First openly worded sentence about stepping down. Tactics or real crisis? The Balkans knows both scenarios - history shows what...

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Forty years since the SANU Memorandum: from Milošević to Vučić - the model of permanent coup and its Balkan copies

The institutions formally exist - parliament, judiciary, media. In practice they've been hollowed out. A system that looks like a...

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Vučić publishes an op-ed in Fox News - lithium, flattery for Trump, and a message to Brussels that Serbia is different

Diplomatic flirtation with concrete offers - lithium from Jadar as the tip in a potential deal, plus cultural rhetoric about...

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Hungary's PM Magyar: the Western Balkans must come before Ukraine in the EU, with a Ukraine referendum if it comes to it

Brussels just got a message it doesn't want to hear. Not a symbolic gesture, literally - the front of the...

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The Gradiška Bridge Between Croatia and Bosnia Cracked - and a Story the Whole Balkans Knows by Heart

The bridge is 60 years old. Repaired when it breaks, not before. Traffic cut off, vehicles diverted 50 kilometres further....

28 days ago Read more →

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Bridge Collapses at Gradiska Border Crossing - Traffic Between Croatia and Bosnia in Chaos

3 a.m. - a whole stretch of road went down, the railing first. Nobody hurt, but the question remains: how...

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Fico Quietly Eases Out of Russian Gas: 10-Year Deal With Azerbaijan - But the Molecules May Still Be Russian

Brussels set a 2027 deadline for the end of Russian energy imports. The Slovak prime minister, known as a friend...

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Bleiburg 1945 - 70,000 Killed After Being Forcibly Handed Over by the British to the Partisans, and Yugoslavia Wouldn't Allow It to Be Spoken of for 45 Years

Tezno above Maribor, Kočevski Rog, Huda Jama, Macelj - the sites of one of the largest mass killings in Europe...

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Vučić Turned Them Down on Podgorica - 20 Years of Independence for Montenegro, Still a Pain in Belgrade

The Serbian president refuses an invitation to the 20th anniversary of Montenegro\'s renewed independence. "To celebrate secession - I would...

15 May 2026 Read more →

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Antonio Zanardi Landi to replace Schmidt in Bosnia: an Italian diplomat with the old Belgrade in his CV

After five years, Christian Schmidt steps down. The successor is a career diplomat - with postings in Moscow, the Holy...

12 May 2026 Read more →

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Driving in Serbia at 0.5 Per Mille? Up to 140,000 Dinars in Fines and Jail - Even for Refusing the Breathalyser

A scale by blood alcohol level. 30 days in jail above 0.8 mg/ml. The era of mild treatment for Balkan...

07 May 2026 Read more →

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Bulgaria Gets a New Government: Radev Accepts the Mandate from Yotova - and the Balkans Will Feel It

Radev has historically not been a friend of Macedonian aspirations. Now he becomes prime minister. Skopje needs to anticipate, not...

07 May 2026 Read more →