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The Anniversary of Kosovo’s Independence: Results and Prospects
This year marks a decade since Kosovo proclaimed its independence, and that independence has by now become a hard fact. The country has been...
Bureaucrats’ Crusade: The European Commission’s Strategy for the Western Balkans
The European Commission set a target date of 2025 for some of the Balkan countries to join. However, Brussels sees only Serbia and Montenegro...
Europe’s youngest country turns 10 next month. Can it turn itself around?
As Kosovo gets ready to celebrate a decade’s worth of independence this February, signs don’t suggest that it has much to cheer about. GDP...
Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Catalonia: Examining Legality under International Law
October 2017 has been marked a historic month for the people of Catalonia, as Catalonian Parliament passed a resolution by a vote of 90%...
Behind China’s perception on Catalonia’s move: it’s the concern
On October 27, the Catalonian autonomous region's parliament voted to pass the motion for "independence" and then declared the "establishment of an independent state"....
The current Kosovo’s issue
As from January 14 until a few days ago, a Serbian train was stationing on the Kosovo border. The train is decorated with letters...
Understanding Albanian nationality and regional political-security consequences
T he Albanian nationhood as understood in the 19th century was part of a romanticist notion of nationality, i.e., the Albanians were the...
EU Enlargement- Still hope for the Western Balkans?
The European integration of the Western Balkans seems to be stuck between declarative political promises and reality on the ground. There is general consensus,...
Kosovo – A Contested Land
The western (the USA/EU) client Serbia’s Government is currently under the direct pressure from Brussels to recognize an independence of the narco-mafia Kosovo’s quasi...
The 1878 San Stefano Treaty and the Albanians
After the Russian military victory over the Ottoman Empire in the 1877−1878 Russo-Ottoman War it was signed the San Stefano Treaty between these two...