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PRISTINA – The parliament of Kosovo adopted a declaration today concerning the verdict of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague against four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The declaration was adopted with 99 votes in favor, with no votes against a…

BELGRADE – Following the resignation of Aleksandar Vučić, Ana Brnabić, who is the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, assumed the duties of President of Serbia today. Vučić resigned on Sunday after more than nine years as President. He is running to become Prime Minister of …

BELGRADE – Aleksandar Vučić, who has served as President of Serbia since 2017, resigned tonight. Earlier this month, Vučić was officially nominated by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) as its candidate for Prime Minister in the parliamentary election scheduled for …

BELGRADE – Activists of the Student List, the largest opposition force in the Serbian parliamentary election scheduled for 25 October, announced today that they were suspending their campaign activities in Republika Srpska, the Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They ci…

PODGORICA – The government of Montenegro adopted information yesterday on the need to terminate the agreements regulating the visa-free regime with Russia, Belarus, and Turkey, starting from 1 November. As explained, Montenegro, in the process of joining the European Union,…

Three years have passed since the armed attack in Banjska in northern Kosovo, in which a Kosovo police officer and three Kosovo Serbs were killed, while Serbia has yet to prosecute those responsible for the attack. The attack took place in the early hours of 24 September 2023, af…

BRUSSELS – The European Commission is preparing a roadmap that is expected to formally endorse Albania’s goal of completing its EU accession negotiations by the end of 2027, Euronews reported. According to Euronews sources from EU institutions, the document expected t…

BRUSSELS – The European Commission said on Wednesday that the EU’s support for Kosovo Specialist Chambers remains unchanged following the first-instance verdict against former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi and three other former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (…

TIRANA – The Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organised Crime (SPAK) placed Vlora Hyseni, head of Albania’s State Intelligence Service (SHISH) under house arrest on Tuesday. Hyseni is suspected of aiding a criminal suspect and of leaking secret information i…

PODGORICA – The Netherlands has not requested a slowdown or “pause” in Montenegro’s EU accession process, but currently assessing whether the closing benchmarks for the provisional closure of negotiating chapters have been met, Dutch Ambassador to Monteneg…

NEW YORK – Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that his country believes in European values and is ready to move forward and find a way out of the current deadlock. As Government stated, Mickoski made remarks on Monday at the Concordia Summit in in New York, held on…

SARAJEVO – OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) election observation mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina have published an interim report stating that the general elections scheduled for 4 October, are taking place in a highly polarised environment…

PODGORICA – Montenegro’s Ministry of European Affairs on Sunday called on the media to carefully verify information concerning the country’s EU accession negotiations, after reports emerged that five EU member states had sought to halt Montenegro’s accessi…

BELGRADE – Following the first-instance verdicts against former leaders of Kosovo Liberation Army, Western countries called for the respect of the decision and for avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. On 16 September, Hashim Thaçi and Jakup Krasniqi were sentenced to 25 years, Kadri V…

In her State of the Union address to the European Parliament, Ursula von der Leyen announced that the Commission would soon present “roadmaps” for the most advanced candidate countries, while stressing that the accession process would remain merit-based and anchored in European v…

BELGRADE – After the declaration of the first-instance verdict against the former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army by the Specialist Chambers in the Hague, the European Union called on all sides and actors in Kosovo to exercise restraint. “The Specialist Chambers and S…

PRISTINA – Dozens of citizens gathered today in front of the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) building in the industrial zone of Pristina after the verdict was declared against four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, and some of the protesters threw stones an…

PRISTINA – Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that the verdict against four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army for war crimes was “an unacceptable injustice and a severe punishment”. “The verdict may have been formally declared on behalf of t…

BELGRADE – While Serbian officials, opposition politicians and NGO activists claimed that the first-instance verdict against the former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army is a crucial acknowledgement of wartime atrocities committed by KLA, they also heavily criticized the lega…

PRISTINA – Politicians and public in Pristina reacted with shock, disappointment, and outrage after Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague sentenced former KLA leaders to prison for war crimes. Hashim Thaçi and Jakup Krasniqi were sentenced to 25 years, Kadri Veseli to 18, and R…

BELGRADE – Today, the Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi was found guilty of war crimes by the Kosovo war crimes tribunal and convicted to 25 years in prison for crimes including murder, torture and illegal detention committed as top commander of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Libe…

STRASBOURG – The glorification of Ratko Mladić, convicted of genocide and war crimes, including his funeral with military honors and attendance of Serbian high-ranking officials, deeply contradicts all the values on which the EU rests, speakers noted at today’s debate…

BRUSSELS – The glorification of war criminals, the denial of genocide and historical revisionism have no place in either the European Union or its member states, stated EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, it has been published today on X by Croatian MEP Željana Zovko…

This article was originally published in Serbian at Savremena politika. While for some countries EU membership is just one of the options, for others it is an existential interest and a guarantee for security and independence. Similarly, while some governments are happy to play b…

BRUSSELS – A merit-based process should remain at the core of EU enlargement, as there are many challenges in keeping this process fair and predictable, stated the speakers at a public hearing called “Western Balkans’ frontrunners: Lessons learnt from Albania and Mont…