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Montenegro and the EU: A Window That Must Not Close – Ljubomir Filipović

What is currently happening with Montenegro in the context of European integration is qualitatively different from anything we have witnessed over the past decade. After more than twelve years of…

December 19, 2025Opinions

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Western Balkans Overview Dec 17, 2025 – CWBS

Montenegro Closed Five Chapters in EU Accession Negotiations Montenegro has achieved a breakthrough on its path toward the European Union, officially closing five negotiation chapters at once. This significant progress…

December 18, 2025Reports

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Eurointegration of “Brotherhood and Unity”

As of December 2025, the European integration of the Western Balkans is in an active phase and is a priority both for the region and for the EU. But while…

December 16, 2025Articles

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How We Infiltrated Telegram Channels Recruiting for the Russian Army – Nino Bilajac

For several months, we monitored Telegram channels that recruit citizens from the region into the Russian military. In a four-month investigation, we infiltrated a private recruitment channel on Telegram, intended…

December 15, 2025Opinions

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Western Balkans Overview Dec 08, 2025 – CWBS

The United States did not grant permission for NIS to continue operating The sanctioned “Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS), whose majority stake is owned by Russian companies, failed to receive…

December 9, 2025Reports

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The “General Staff” Case as an Exam for Vučić

The project for the reconstruction of the former General Staff complex in the center of Belgrade, which the Serbian government planned to implement together with the son-in-law of U.S. President…

December 8, 2025Articles

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Western Balkans Overview Nov 29, 2025 – CWBS

Hungary and Serbia strengthen energy cooperation Against the background of U.S. sanctions against the company “Naftna Industrija Srbije” (NIS), controlled by Russia’s Gazprom Neft, Budapest has taken on a key…

November 30, 2025Reports

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Walk on the edge (Balsa Bozovic)

The 2025 European Commission Report arrived at a moment when Aleksandar Vučić appeared to have temporarily consolidated his authoritarian rule after a year of the most severe political crisis of…

November 28, 2025Opinions

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Vučić can politically resurrect as prime minister (Boris Varga)

In Serbia, the control of elections will be important, but also the post-election combinatorics. The anniversary of the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad, where 16 people deceased, passed…

November 25, 2025Opinions

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Western Balkans Overview Nov 21, 2025 – CWBS

Albania has opened the last negotiation cluster for EU accession. Cluster 5, “Resources, Agriculture and Cohesion,” was officially opened during the Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels. This step has symbolic and…

November 24, 2025Reports