And that lasts appx 18 months.
Lots of chatter on the topic in the Western Balkans' candidate states. While recognizing extr difficult UA position, it kind of adds new layer of doubts in pursuing reforms, and encourages the 'wait and see' approach.
And that lasts appx 18 months.
Lots of chatter on the topic in the Western Balkans' candidate states. While recognizing extr difficult UA position, it kind of adds new layer of doubts in pursuing reforms, and encourages the 'wait and see' approach.
He's doing this all the time. Constantly on air, discussing any and all things, predicting this and that (with poor track record). Just another day here with it, really.
01.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A i sa "političkom školom" je muku mučila
www.cins.rs/slucaj-minis...
Serbian police forces have entered the premises of the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Novi Sad, to break up the ongoing student protest started because of the dismissal of one of the professors.
n1info.rs/english/news...
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
20.01.2026 23:01 — 👍 6262 🔁 1646 💬 291 📌 97
Hungarian MOL is going to buyout Gazprom's share (~56%) in Sebian NIS oil company. Emirates' ADNOC is part of the deal but it is uclear how exactly.
And now they are going to ask the USA to lift the sanctions on NIS as the Russian ownership is, maybe, on the way out.
n1info.rs/english/news...
"If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
17.01.2026 11:12 — 👍 355 🔁 122 💬 4 📌 14
Not sure why the Rafale purchase is thrown in only casually. It was signed last year and at least ~€800M has already been paid to Dassault. It is by far the biggest defence contract, easily 10x of the biggest one with China (FK3) which was agreed back in 2019.
www.defensenews.com/global/europ...
Everything going well.
03.01.2026 10:58 — 👍 589 🔁 149 💬 13 📌 7
I’ll see yall next year ✨
30.12.2025 21:09 — 👍 8449 🔁 3077 💬 17 📌 38
A required nod to overall New Year's pessimism
29.12.2025 09:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One wonders who delegated A. Kavcic to represent the student body of Serbia, as their usual channels of communication are silent about him.
And while he is/was a professor in USA, he's not a professor in Serbia nor has any students there.
Pretty odd.
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/video/awa...
My two colleagues and me have just published a paper, tackling a Jadar lithium mining project in Serbia against the backdrop of the EU integrations, inherent norm compliance, and strategic interests.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Hillbilly EULogy, so to speak.
11.12.2025 10:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MAGA->MEGA against the EU will shape to be quite an existential challenge:
"Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”"
Today’s local elections in Serbia – in Mionica, Negotin and Sečanj – were a snapshot of that reality: fraud, intimidation, assaults on observers, and mobs operating with police complicity.
We believe democracy cannot survive without accountability. Vučić’s regime threatens both.
Why is Vučić afraid of national elections? Because when he’s not sending thugs to beat up students, young people, citizens, MPs or journalists – as he did today in Mionica – he knows he can’t win.
His party is increasingly isolated, holding on to power through violence, fear and voter manipulation.
Since I'm in Florence, been reading the outlet and got hooked on local darkwave bands from the 1980s.
Starting with Diaframma, on to Litfiba, Neon, Pankow....
www.theflorentine.net/2025/11/19/d...
Activism without lasting forms of collective organisation
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He is looking for a way into the Trump circle. But, funnily enough, Trumpists and MAGAs have kept him at arms length away despite his various attempts to mingle with them and buy himself in.
Next gvmt should annul this corrupt lex specialis as a matter of priority.
Vučić is hoping for a magical US-RU deal on the issue, and looks to ride Orban's coat tails on this. There's practically zero chance of that happening.
He and the gvmt still refuse the idea of takeover of NIS ownership from Gazprom, thus increasing the chances of major internal oil crisis.
And they're gonna stack it with friendly* academics, to create a safe haven for pro-SNS party line of thought.
The first, interim dean will be a party loyalist, of course.
Serbian gvmt has decided to create a "Faculty of Serbian Studies" by cutting out depts of history, Serbian, and Russian(!?) language out of University of Niš.
It has done so despite the tacit "no" from the uni and departmental councils.
/1
www.danas.rs/vesti/drustv...
It seems that internal* Russian repackaging of ownership of US-sanctioned oil business (Lukoil but, implicitly also Gazprom, and for Serbian NIS) is a non-starter for lifting the sanctions.
07.11.2025 07:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My interview for "Glas Slavonije" (Croatia), with Darko Jerković, on Serbian integration into the EU.
The point is fairly simple - any progress now is practically inconceivable under this government.
Reasons are many, but they merge to a straightforward answer.
www.glas-slavonije.hr/magazin/2025...
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YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
From Oct 1 the US Gov will levy sanctions against the Serbian de facto oil monopoly NIS, as majority of its shares are owned by Gazprom and connected companies.
For months the SR gov has refused to nationalise the company (as Vučić values the RU connection) and RU side has refused any buyout.