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Vučić Steps Down as von der Leyen Tours a Region in Political Turmoil (opens the original)
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What Trump’s America Wants From the Balkans (opens the original)
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in comments on Wednesday that he saw in Serbia a “strategic partnership” that the US wanted to “deepen its relationship with” despite “potentially problematic and explosive” issues that might emerge. Rubio didn’t specify what those issues were but Kosovo would be the obvious standout along with perhaps the upcoming elections and the burgeoning student movement.In a recent strategy paper the administration is clear, beyond security issues that it largely leaves
Kosovo After the Verdict: The Fallout Has Only Begun (opens the original)
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The aftermath of the verdict has set off a political and social bomb in Kosovo. As I wrote earlier this week, no one was prepared for it to be as comprehensive and starkly factual as it was, while the length of the sentences was shocking to many. How could former president Hashim Thaçi—the “George Washington of Kosovo,” as then US vice-president Joe Biden described him—be convicted of war crimes?The protests in Prishtina have not stopped since. EULEX—the EU Rule of Law Mission—was targeted twice
The Verdict Kosovo Was Never Prepared to Hear (opens the original)
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Welcome Home? Kosovo waits for the Thaçi verdict (opens the original)
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