@aestesop.bsky.social
Political analyst & researcher | Western Balkans, EU enlargement & illiberalism | PhD candidate @uni-graz.at | Fellow @ GLPS Kosovo 🇽🇰 | Burek, memes, all things camp 📍 Vienna, Austria 🌐 www.alejandroestesoperez.com
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Diploma Online "Conflictos en la periferia europea: frontera oriental" en @ucm.es, coordinado por @ruthferrero.bsky.social.
⭐ Programa de Becas Santander (300€)
📆 4 mayo - 12 julio
📚 15 ECTS
Más info aquí: www.ucm.es/icei/diploma...
📣 INSCRIPCIÓN ABIERTA (+ POSIBILIDAD DE BECA) 📣
Diploma Online "Conflictos en la periferia europea: frontera oriental" en @ucm.es, coordinado por @ruthferrero.bsky.social.
⭐ Programa de Becas Santander (300€)
📆 4 mayo - 12 julio
📚 15 ECTS
Más info aquí: www.ucm.es/icei/diploma...
El Gobierno de España habla de prohibir el uso de redes sociales a millones de personas como si eso fuera algo sencillo y “de sentido común”.
En la newsletter de hoy, os cuento 10 razones por las que no es una buena idea.
The Board of Peace comprises leaders from 18 of the world's least democratic states (plus the US) and its charter pledges $1 billion from each of them to be used at the discretion of the board's chairman (you already know who it is) www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
22.01.2026 11:37 — 👍 499 🔁 215 💬 95 📌 169X is the megaphone of 21st century fascism and authoritariansim. It has poisoned public debate. It is a tool for bullying, abuse, and assault. X needs to disappear from our discourse. When people and institutions post there, it gives X credibility. It keeps it relevant. It's time to stop.
12.01.2026 16:47 — 👍 323 🔁 113 💬 4 📌 3
The Serbs wanting to get revenge on Denmark's Kosovo recognition by supporting US annexation of Greenland is giving the exact same level of stupidity as the Kosovo peeps supporting a US coup in Venezuela. But they don't know that do they.
09.01.2026 19:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Muchas gracias por leernos 😊 un abrazo
07.01.2026 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@seva.bsky.social is, of course, correct. Venezuela was a pre-arranged gift to (or from) Putin; Cuba is next. The spheres of influence and control are back. Yalta without the spectacle of Yalta.
03.01.2026 18:01 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Adem Kastrati, "Mikpritja" (1975)
24.12.2025 15:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇨🇭📸 Casually dropping four of my favourite snapshots from the past semester in Switzerland.
Thanks to @unifr.bsky.social for having me!
Why is it always the bangers 😩
12.12.2025 20:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, @ruthferrero.bsky.social and I poured some thoughts into this op-ed for Balkan Insight.
"The silence is deafening. The tragedy is not only that 16 lives were lost under the collapsed canopy a year ago, but that an entire generation no longer believes that Europe can shelter them."
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"With the ultimate sense of awareness that nobody in Brussels will come to their rescue, the final reckoning is that only #Serbia can save itself."
✍🏻💥 New op-ed just out for Balkan Insight, authored alongside @ruthferrero.bsky.social
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Yep! That's definitely going well for them.
24.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I randomly just remembered there's an EUSR for the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue called Peter Sørensen.
Wondering what he's been up to.
#Eurovision: Norwegian public broadcaster reports that the EBU is scrapping its GA's vote on Israel's participation in the 2026 contest. Israel will therefore participate normally.
Which also means that, if no surprises, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Ireland are boycotting the contest.
Work on #transnational #illiberalism? Consider submitting a paper for my workshop at ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions! Seeking papers on #illiberal #parties, #socialmovements, #transnationalism and trans-regionalism. Deadline 3 December! Event details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
11.11.2025 19:52 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Investigative journalists at KRIK in #Serbia have just unveiled this impressive database that lists and tracks ćaci (regime's thugs) presence at pro-regime rallies or responsibility for anti-student violence.
Who they are, where they have been seen and how their criminal record looks.
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🔴INVESTIGACIÓN | Los migrantes del Sur Global vienen a trabajar y los del Norte, a jubilarse
✍️ Por Emilia G. Morales
"Los estudiantes siguen gritando por justicia sin mirar hacia Bruselas. La tragedia no es solo la muerte de dieciséis personas bajo la marquesina colapsada, sino que toda una generación ha dejado de creer que Europa pueda ofrecerles refugio."
03.11.2025 10:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📍 Un año después de la catástrofe de la estación de trenes de Novi Sad, donde una marquesina de cemento sepultó a 16 personas, @ruthferrero.bsky.social y yo repasamos qué suponen los últimos doce meses para #Serbia y qué queda de la ambición europea de su sociedad civil.
En @agendapublica.es 👇🏻
🇪🇺🤑The mother of all EU fund misuses from Hungary: a treetop/canopy walkway without trees in Nyírmártonfalva, led by a Fidesz (Orbán’s ruling party) mayor who said trees weren’t required. €160K of EU taxpayers’ money wasted. Story uncovered by @atlatszo.hu in 2023: english.atlatszo.hu/2023/03/28/t...
19.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 115 🔁 53 💬 6 📌 10So excuse my overall scepticism that this deal, considering it has been brokered by a xenophobic, Islamophobic, far-right, ignorant bigot is going to bring a safe, stable and just future for Palestine and the Palestinians.
14.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The left seems completely disoriented after Trump's ceasefire deal in Gaza.
But don't be fooled and, especially, don't forget: Trump has always had Israel's genocidal govt's back, purely sees Gaza as a lucrative real estate opportunity, and ultimately does not give a single fuck about Palestinians.
Es que me lo veía venir. Me veo ahora a la mayoría de organismos de radiodifusión recogiendo cable (nunca mejor dicho) y haciendo como que no pasa nada: "Esta semana no se está cometiendo un genocidio así que palante."
13.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Diella es la primera ministra del mundo creada con IA.
Albania la ha presentado como un método infalible contra la corrupción, pero muchos creen que solo es propaganda del gobierno.
Lo cuento en @elsaltodiario.com con la colaboración de @aestesop.bsky.social y @aguiar.bsky.social ⬇️
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🗣️ Comparto algunos de mis comentarios para @elsaltodiario.com sobre Albania: las jugadas domésticas de Edi Rama, sus relaciones con Bruselas, y el futuro de la ampliación.
✍🏻 @mrtables.bsky.social
One month in Switzerland and bilingualism really does feel like
06.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
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