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US on fire – what next?

12:20 09.06.2020

US on fire – what next?

The angry wave of riots that has swept the United States undoubtedly came as the most serious challenge to President Donald Trump since his election in 2016. The significance of this unrest transcends the usual pre-election scenario though, laying bare its deep-seated causes and the impact it may have on …

Kosovo between USA and EU

12:11 20.05.2020

Kosovo between USA and EU

The issue of Kosovo is yet again becoming one of the hottest on the international agenda. While the US administration is set on the early (before the presidential elections in November) signing of an agreement on normalizing relations through territorial exchanges, the European Union leadership, under pressure from Germany, is …

US trying to isolate WHO

11:45 27.04.2020

US trying to isolate WHO

The US refusal to keep allocating funds for the World Health Organization (WHO) has become yet another step towards further confrontation between President Donald Trump and international organizations. However, the geopolitical importance of such a move goes beyond health-related issues and fits well into the current format of the US-China …

Serbia and EU: no more illusions

13:47 21.04.2020

Serbia and EU: no more illusions

The current coronavirus pandemic in Europe threatens to damage the image of the EU in the eyes of residents of both EU member countries and countries seeking the EU membership. Given this, a good example has been demonstrated by the Serbian leadership, which initially pronounced integration with the EU as …

Germany: CDU - three in one

12:10 20.03.2020

Germany: CDU - three in one

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will hold an extraordinary congress on April 25 to elect its new chairperson, who is almost certain to lead the party to next year’s federal elections to culminate in the election of the country’s new Chancellor in lieu of Angela Merkel, who has already …

China arrives in the Balkans, EU worried…

17:05 11.03.2020

China arrives in the Balkans, EU worried…

The Balkans as a whole and Serbia in particular are quickly turning into a scene of confrontation between key global players, with China being especially active in recent years. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has said in an interview with The Foreign Policy magazine that his country's cooperation with Beijing has …

Republika Srpska preparing BREXIT

11:30 25.02.2020

Republika Srpska preparing BREXIT

The precedence of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union naturally allows other European organizations and individual countries to contemplate the previously inconceivable exit option. While at the EU level there are no indications of any other member states planning to follow in London’s footsteps any time soon, in the …

US is militarizing Europe

12:35 31.01.2020

US is militarizing Europe

While pushing its NATO allies in Europe to increase their spending on joint defense, the United States is simultaneously moving its own troops to Europe. According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, there are a record number of US troops, not seen there since the start of this century, currently …

Serbs do not want to join NATO

17:40 27.01.2020

Serbs do not want to join NATO

The leaders of Serbia and the Bosnian Republika Srpska have signaled their intention to maintain military neutrality and refrain from joining NATO. A statement to this effect was made amid the aggravation of the political crisis in Montenegro following the coming into force of the law on the freedom of …

US threatens Europe with "gas war"

11:15 17.12.2019

US threatens Europe with "gas war"

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be launched irrespective of the US sanctions. Envisaged by the draft US defense budget for the 2020 fiscal year, the restrictions have already run into an adverse reaction in Europe and could further aggravate Washington’s …

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