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Guy De Launey

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 30, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Guy De Launey

    The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ is dead – but divisions live on in the Balkans (opens the original)

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    Serbia’s former president Boris Tadić got it right. Ratko Mladić was a “stain” – and his death in custody in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity, will not cleanse Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia of his toxic legacy. The former Bosnian-Serb general isn’t the only murderous figure from the past lionised as a national champion in the Western Balkans. The obsession of some prominent figures with presenting villains as heroes is a significant obst

  2. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Guy De Launey

    Exclusive: Albania’s prime minister on the tourism backlash in the face of Trump resort plans (opens the original)

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    Edi Rama doesn’t seem thrilled when Monocle visits his office but that could have something to do with the protests outside his window in central Tirana. The lack of bonhomie contrasts with the long-serving Albanian prime minister’s image as the statesman-slash-showman of the Western Balkans. Rama is renowned for his irreverence at international summits: one minute serenading his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni; the next, cracking jokes with Emmanuel Macron about Donald Trump’s propensity fo

  3. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Guy De Launey

    Why did a story about ‘sniper tourism’ go unchallenged for so long? Here’s the answer (opens the original)

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    When foreign correspondents’ clubs are struggling, we are all in trouble. Declining membership of these venerable institutions is not just a matter of regret for hard-drinking journalists living out their Evelyn Waugh fantasies but also an indicator of the overall health of international newsgathering. From Reuters and the BBC to The Washington Post, the world’s great news organisations have been slashing their networks of foreign correspondents. As a result, they have left swaths of the world u

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