The European Union announced that it “acknowledged” Moscow’s announcement that it would start working on opening its office in the Serbian Ministry of Defense. “Acknowledgement”, on the scale of European political speech, means something like – “we have heard, but…
As an experienced politician, Aleksandar Vučić knows very well how to choose the field on which he will compete with his political opponents, and he should thank that talent for a good part of his success. That is why Vučić’s…
The news that Vladimir Putin is not coming to visit Serbia has the same impact on the Serbian political public as when he came to Belgrade on previous occasions. We have supporters and opponents of his arrival, and when it…
It seemed that the EU really woke up from a deep sleep and that it is determined to bring the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina to a successful end in a fairly short period of time. First, Miroslav Lajčak said…
It should have seemed that things settled down between Belgrade and Moscow after the apologies of Putin, Lavrov and Zakharova herself regarding her vulgar comment on President Vučić. As many times before, it turned out that things are not as…
Harsh words from Brussels on the account of corruption in Serbia have been following us for years, and it will be the same in the future, even when we enter the European Union. But the worst thing we could do…
Miroslav Lajčák certainly does not want that, but his attempt to bring Serbs and Albanians to an agreement is already too similar to all the previous ones. The Slovak wants to inspire them with enthusiasm, and even haste, to bring…
It used to be simple. It was deemed – if there are American soldiers somewhere, then American business will come there. This simple geopolitical equation was used by everyone in the Balkans, from university professors, journalists, diplomats, to analysts in front of rural cooperative…
Last week, we were reminded along the way, or learned, that September 15 marks the International Day of Democracy, one of those dates on which the United Nations reminds humanity of the important foundations on which the modern world rests.…
The oval room in the White House is working these days as a real diplomatic factory from which, one after the other, agreements on resolving the world’s most complicated hotspots emerge. This September alone, more world crises have been resolved,…
