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My new Balkans Forward column for Atlantic Council Atlantic Council Europe Center- “Are Albania and Montenegro on the fast track to EU membership?” Makes the case that the EU should go ahead with a merit-based accession process for 🇦🇱🇲🇪 & shift how it thinks about the region. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

🇦🇱 🇲🇪 Albania and Montenegro are capitalizing on the EU’s renewed momentum for enlargement as a result of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Atlantic Council Europe Center’s Agon Maliqi examines what’s at stake: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

Argentinian authorities uncover large-scale Russian disinformation operation. kyivinsider.com/argentina-unco…

Per the Financial Times, the EU is honing in on trying to negotiate the only deal possible with the US by July 9th -- one where the EU accepts a 10% tariff w/o retaliation and gets a path to 10% tariffs and tariff rate quotas on the sectoral tariffs 1/

Early on Sunday morning in the Middle East, US forces targeted Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Atlantic Council experts assess the significance of the strikes and what to expect next. THREAD 🧵 atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

NATO Summit declaration confirms commitment to 5% of GDP on defense & defense-related spending by 2035. Also confirmed: 2027 Summit will be held in Albania. nato.int/cps/en/natohq/…

Insightful two days at the NATO Summit’s Public Forum at The Hague. Lots of constructive discussions on HOW Europe can ramp up weapons production & strengthen capabilities to preserve deterrence against Russia in a pivotal decade ahead, while at the same time sustaining critical

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid, نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון yaniv kubovich יניב קובוביץ and Bar Peleg write for Haaretz.com haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

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#WesternBalkan6StrategyGroup calls on all governments of the Western Balkans to ensure appropriate commemoration of the victims of the #Srebrenica #genocide and to fully implement the #UnitedNations Resolution adopted on May 23 2024. #30yearsGenocide ba.boell.org/en/2025/07/10/…

The Srebrenica genocide is one of the darkest pages of European history. In July 1995, 30 years ago, thousands of men and boys were murdered solely because of their ethnicity and religion. Let us remember and learn from it. #NeverForget

On this day, 30 years ago, 8372 Bosniak civilians were brutally murdered. They were killed after Serbian forces attacked the UN "safe area" in #Srebrenica To this day, there is denial in #Serbia about #SrebrenicaGenocide. #Srebrenica30 ⚪️ #WeWillNeverForget

Danas ćemo i u Beogradu i u memorijalnom centru u Potočarima obeležavati 11. jul, dan koji je Generalna skupština Ujedinjenih nacija rezolucijom proglasila Međunarodnim danom sećanja na genocid u Srebrenici, koji se dogodio pre 30 godina. Sećanjem na 8372 žrtve, solidarnošću s

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK agreed in a phone call on Monday to set the end of August as the de facto deadline for reaching a nuclear deal with Iran, Axios reported, citing three sources. If no deal is

Our book with Bekim Çollaku Fisnik Rexhepi "Negotiating Peace in Kosovo: Local Perspective on European Union Mediation Efforts" is now out with Palgrave Macmillan #PalgravePivot. Our gratitude to Gëzim Visoka Edita Tahiri & Blerim Shala for their support. 👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Green light - 🇪🇺 ambassadors have passed the 🇷🇺 sanctions. Formal approval later today

Historic move in Berlin, as Friedrich Merz breaks with a two-decade consensus and scarifies NordStream as part of EU's new and strongest-yet banking and energy sanctions on Russia wsj.com/world/europe/e… with laurence norman via The Wall Street Journal

Serbia’s oldest newspaper, fully controlled by Serbian gov, front page tomorrow: “Foreigners without gloves working on destruction of Serbia”. Huge propaganda wave in recent days against 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧, accusing their secret services of working with students on a coup against Vucic 🤷‍♂️

Also a reminder that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is a democracy with a strong civil society, despite all its problems. No such protests would be allowed for a second in Moscow.

KCA is civil society in action. Last night we held a special edition of our “Dinner Talks” series where we discussed #Kosovo’s Euro-Atlantic future with senior political party representatives and diplomats.