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Escobar and Lajcak visit amid fears of destabilisation in the Western Balkans

The US envoy for Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, and EU diplomat Miroslav Lajcak recently have made joint visit to Kosovo and Serbia. This signals a furthered meeting in a near…

February 5, 2022Balkans, Kosovo, Serbia

Geopolitics

Returning the US diplomacy attention to the Balkans

Recent events in the Balkans, particularly in Montenegro, Kosovo – Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina - give the impression to have been a reason for intensified diplomatic activity of the United…

October 27, 2021Balkans, Kosovo, Serbia, USA

Intelligence ops

Russian spies – one of the instruments of influence in the Western Balkans

A group of former ministers from neighboring countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia) sent a letter to the European institutions and NATO asking them to start a "political dialogue…

October 1, 2021Albania, Balkans, Croatia, GRU, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Russia, Serbia

Geopolitics

Forget Berlin

During her recent visit to Belgrade and Tirana, Chancellor Angela Merkel relaunched for the last time the call for the enlargement of the European Union: "EU members should always keep…

September 27, 2021Balkans, Germany

Conflict Geopolitics

How the Balkans was Balkanized?

Prior to the 1992-1995 Balkan war, the European Community delegated the British and Portugese diplomats, Lord Carrington and Jose Cutileiro, to design a suitable scheme for ethno-religious partition of Bosnia-Herzegovina,…

June 7, 2021Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

Geopolitics Propaganda and Disinformation

Why does Serbia demand the construction of a Russian military camp in Balkans?

Challenging for KFOR was the confrontation with Russian troops, who had occupied Pristina airport before the arrival of NATO forces in Kosovo in June 1999. The Russians, without prior coordination…

June 1, 2021Balkans, Kosovo, Russia, Serbia

Geopolitics

Border change in Balkans: new politics with old means?

A document recently published in the Slovenian media, which highlights the idea of changing the borders in the Balkans, has sparked much debate in Bosnia and Hercegovina and Kosovo but…

April 16, 2021Arbesa Hoxha, Balkans

Geopolitics

China: Europe through the Balkans

Beijing's presence in the Western Balkans is an issue that Brussels must address soon. The lack of investment in this region by the European Union, let China complete this part…

November 12, 2020Arbesa Hoxha, Balkans, China, Kosovo, Serbia

Geopolitics

Russian influence in the Western Balkans

The constant rhetoric and the public opinion development against Euro-Atlantic integration is an agenda that Russia is constantly trying to extend to the Western Balkan countries. Influence on the Western…

September 21, 2020Arbesa Hoxha, Balkans, Russia

Geopolitics

China Fights for Central and Eastern Europe Expansion

In 2012 when China hosted the Central and Eastern Europe countries first summit in the ‘16+1’ format (China, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,…

September 16, 2020Balkans, CEE, China

Balkans

Escobar and Lajcak visit amid fears of destabilisation in the Western Balkans

Returning the US diplomacy attention to the Balkans

Russian spies – one of the instruments of influence in the Western Balkans

Forget Berlin

How the Balkans was Balkanized?

Why does Serbia demand the construction of a Russian military camp in Balkans?

Border change in Balkans: new politics with old means?

China: Europe through the Balkans

Russian influence in the Western Balkans

China Fights for Central and Eastern Europe Expansion

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