Yesterday’s snap elections in Serbia (for national parliament and Belgrade city council) mirror, like no elections since October 5, 2000, the state of “democracy” in Serbia and the role and responsibility of the West in enabling this decline.
The recent EU Council decision to begin accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova could further highlight the deficit of political will in the Western Balkans for an EU future.
On November 21, 1995 the Dayton Peace Agreement was initialed. Citizens are still awaiting a social contract…….
BiH is on the agenda at the UNSC today, and with it the issue of the renewal and strength of EUFOR……
A recent statement by the US Ambassador to BiH will be met with much agreement; however it needs to be accompanied by a policy shift in line with the rhetoric.
President von der Leyen missed an opportunity to catalyze a new social contract for BiH.
The inconclusive outcome of a day of high-level meetings of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue in Brussels has made very public what has been clear for months: the German-French initiative has failed…
Peter Emerson’s latest book on alternatives to binary election systems is particularly relevant at a time of increasing social and political polarization.
The results of Slovakia’s parliament election on 30 September attracted a wave of dramatic headlines. With the new government now taking shape, is the outlook really that grim?