World on lockdown
byAs we sit amidst the throws of the Covid-19 pandemic and the bad news continues to spread, unprecedented occasions can be seen around the…
Balkans
Flights between Serbia and Kosovo
byFlights between Belgrade and Pristina to resume, in a US brokered deal agreed on Monday 20th January 2020, for the first time in 20…
The Future of the EU
byWhile the Western Balkans are on an accession plan to join the European Union, the UK is trying its best to leave. With…
Kosovo Liberation Army
byThe Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA, was a military organisation comprised of ethnic Albanian’s fighting for separation from Serbia. Background Once upon a time,…
Balkan Nationalism at the World Cup
byDuring the World Cup 2018, in a match between Switzerland and Serbia, two Swiss footballers of Kosovan origin celebrated their goal by displaying the…
Paddy Ashdown
byJeremy John Durham Ashdown, known as Paddy Ashdown, was the international community’s high representative to Bosnia Herzegovina from 27th May 2002. In May 2006…
War Crimes
byMass violence resulted in ethnic cleansing, deportation, murders, torture, rape, concentration camps, devastation of villages, besieged cities, destruction of cultural and religious monuments and…
A New Year for Western Balkans
byIf 2016 is marked by the Brexit referendum, Donald Trump rise to power and the increase in Euroscepticism, then 2017 was an improvement. It…
The EU Path To Accession
by“A credible enlargement perspective for and enhanced EU engagement with the Western Balkans”. This is the name of the new strategy launched by the…
Slobodan Praljak – Did the war really end?
byOver twenty years after the conflict in The Balkans, Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak killed himself in The Hague during an appeal hearing….