Brussels is with you again – the heads of diplomacy of France and Germany, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas pompously announced, asking Belgrade and Pristina to return to dialogue immediately. The corona virus epidemic is over, the consolidation of…
Frequent looking towards the Far East can weaken our eyesight and therefore we do not see clearly where we need to go. Staring at distant Russia and even further China blurs our concentration and ability to stay on the path…
Josip Broz Tito died this month 40 years ago, but we won’t talk much about him here. Just about one of his decisions, but not any decision. About the one that was adopted exactly 72 years ago and which determined…
“You Serbs started the last century with wars, you ended it with wars… What are you preparing for this century?” – This question Henry Kissinger asked Živorad Kovačević in the early 2000s, when two old friends, great diplomats, met in…
Isolation during the virus epidemic could have been a good opportunity to think and rest, followed by hard work on a project that began 17 years ago, to include the Balkans in the European Union. Too long for Europe and…
He may have seemed arrogant at the time he said it, but many years ago Henry Kissinger unmistakably marked the weakest point of European unification into the later Union, saying – whose phone should I dial to see what the…
In recent weeks, I have done my best to challenge the utterly cliché, superficial, and insolent thesis of numerous European media that Aleksandar Vučić has given China the fuel it needs for its propaganda operation to convince the world that…
It would be all right if Keno Verseck, a freelance journalist from Germany, read a section of the Serbian Constitution concerning the state of emergency before selling Der Spiegel an article on how Vučić was introducing dictatorship in Serbia. Or…
Modern Turkey and the modern Balkans are peers, so to speak – twins. Turkey as it is today and the Balkans as we see it, were born at the same historical moment, in the years immediately after the First World…
INTRODUCTION Several major and influential European media have, in a short time, published critical comments on Serbia and President Aleksandar Vučić during the Coronavirus epidemic. The criticisms were made on two grounds: – Chinese humanitarian aid to Serbia and gratitude…
