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PODGORICA –Today, the Higher Court in Podgorica delivered first-instance verdicts against members of the Kavač criminal clan, sentencing fugitive leader Radoje Zvicer to a maximum of 40 years, National Security Agency operative Petar Lazović to 20 years, and fugitive police offic…

BUDAPEST – Hungary is investigating two unrestricted loans provided to North Macedonia, worth a combined 988 million euros via the state-owned Eximbank during Viktor Orbán’s previous administration, Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced. According to the media reports, the credit…

It has been almost two weeks since Serbia’s Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Snezana Paunović, declared that, had she been in Slobodan Milošević’s position, she would have “ethnically cleansed Kosovo.” Despite the outrage expressed both at home and abr…

PRISTINA – The demolition of villas owned by local Serbs near Lake Gazivode/Ujman in northern Kosovo sparked significant diplomatic reactions from international missions and bodies. On the other hand, BIRN reported that Kosovo authorities claimed the houses were built illegally o…

The article was originally published in Serbian at Savremena politika. The public opinion surveys, conducted recently by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCBP) and the Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability (Crta), have clearly pointed to the link between su…

NOVI SAD – The Serbian activist group STAV said today that Interpol’s decision to reject Serbia’s request to issue an international arrest warrant against six activists from Novi Sad confirms its claim that the case against them is politically motivated rather than cr…

BRUSSELS – The Acting President of Kosovo, Albulena Haxhiu, on Tuesday confirmed the resignations of seven prosecutors from the Serb community, who submitted their resignations in 2022. A day earlier, the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council refused to withdraw the resignations of …

The mid-term picture of the implementation of the Growth Plan is highly uneven. While some countries are making steady progress in implementing reforms and drawing down EU funding, others are moving slowly – or barely at all. Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia are broa…

WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Đurić led the inaugural US-Serbia Strategic Dialogue, reaffirming the two countries’ shared commitment to strengthening their bilateral partnership, the US Department of State said. The …

BUDAPEST – Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has announced that passenger services on the high-speed railway between Budapest and Belgrade are expected to begin within the next one or two months, N1 reported. He also said that Transport and Investment Minister Dávid Vitézy wi…

BRUSSELS – Today, the European Commission published its seventh annual Rule of Law Report, assessing the state of the rule of law across all EU Member States, as well as four candidate countries: Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Since 2020, the European Com…

PODGORICA – Montenegro’s Parliament on Thursday elected two new judges to the Constitutional Court, Jelena Ružić and Predrag Krstonijević, Vijesti reported. The candidates were nominated by President Jakov Milatović, who attended the parliamentary session and urged la…

BELGRADE – Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in the Government of Serbia, Snežana Paunović, caused strong domestic and international backlash this week after saying that she would have ethnically cleansed Kosovo in the 1990s. On 11 July, Paunović s…

BELGRADE – In the first half of 2026, Serbia remained at around 60% alignment with the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy declarations and measures, according to a new analysis by the Belgrade-based ISAC Fund. Despite nominal progress achieved in 2025, when Serbia reached…

Serbia’s failure to open Cluster 3 in its EU accession negotiations is no reason for celebration. The decision reflects a far more troubling reality: the country’s continued democratic backsliding, deterioration in the rule of law, and persistent refusal to align its …

KYIV – The Ukraine–Southeast Europe Summit was held for the fifth time on 15 July 2026. The format was launched in 2023 to support Ukraine and coordinate a joint response to the consequences of Russia’s aggression. The previous summits took place in Athens, Tirana, Du…

BRUSSELS – Albania provisionally closed the negotiating chapters on science and research (25), education and culture (26), and external relations (30) at its ninth accession conference with the European Union, held on 14 July. This is the first time Albania has closed negot…

BRUSSELS – Ukraine and Moldova advanced in their European Union accession process on Tuesday, opening Cluster 6 “External Relations”, which consists of two negotiating chapters. This step was made following the opening of Cluster 1 “Fundamentals” las…

BRUSSELS – Montenegro provisionally closed accession negotiations on competition policy (chapter 8) and customs union (chapter 29) at today’s Accession Conference in Brussels. Montenegro has opened all 33 negotiating chapters in its EU accession negotiations. With the…

BRUSSELS – Director of the Directorate-General for Enlargement of the European Commission Gert Jan Koopman stated today in the European Parliament that, as of June, the expected implementation of the reforms under the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans is around 80% for Al…

BRUSSELS – Italy and six other EU Member States have pushed back against a proposal by France, Germany and the Benelux countries to build new and restrictive legal safeguards into accession treaties for future members, Euractiv reports. A diplomatic paper circulated in June…

BRUSSELS – Today the Council of the EU appointed a new EU Special Representative (EUSR) for Kosovo, and extended the mandate of the current EUSR for Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has been officially stated by the Council that Dirk Schübel is the new EUSR for Kosovo. He will ta…

BRUSSELS – On 14 July, the EU is going to hold as many as four intergovernmental conferences – with Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova. For the first time, Albania will provissionally close three negotiating chapters – Chapter 25 (Science and Research), Chapter 26 (Educatio…

The Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) was designed to develop the legislative, administrative, and institutional groundwork for eventual membership. The logic was straightforward: build capacity, and reform would follow. After more than two decades, the honest assessm…

BRUSSELS – There is no place in Europe for genocide denial, historical revisionism, or the glorification of convicted war criminals, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Kaja Kallas and European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said in a joint state…