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12Feb

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Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia

The Battle for the EU – Liberalism vs. Illiberalism

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini EU Did Not Commit Suicide. It Is Reinventing Itself The EPPO Might Not Be Ready By Year End Head-on Collision Between Brussels and Member States Regarding EU's Global Strategy It is again a crisis that drives the European Union towards a reconsideration of its state and towards change, as it has always been throughout its 60-year long life. Last year saw just the beginning of talks about the Union’s future after the Brits’ decision to leave it and the election of Donald Trump for US President acted as a catalyst on the debate, which is supposed to crystallise into an agreement about the future at the end of march on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which laid the foundations of the EU. Talks about the future began in ...

4Feb

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Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania

There Is a Serious Crisis of Democracy in the Western Balkans Region

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini Could Russia Recognise Kosovo? Is Serbia Preparing for Elections or a New Balance of Powers EU Has Lost Its Transformative Power. Enlargement Hits a Dead End A long delayed discussion took place in the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee about the tensions in the Western Balkans region, which have been growing for months now, but with the start of the new year the situation deteriorated dramatically. The discussion was initiated by the Slovenian MEP Ivo Vajgl (ALDE), who is the rapporteur for Macedonia, and was held on the day of the election of a new committee chairman. The former chairman, veteran of the European Parliament and Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok (EPP, Germany) conceded his post to another EPP MEP from Germany – David McAllister, who i...

26Jan

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Croatia

A Croatian Perspective on the Bulgaria and Romania CVM Reports

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini Boyko Borissov Hopes European Commission Will Lift Its Monitoring Next Year Is Poland Headed toward Triggering Article 7? Commission Struck a Snag With Poland “In order for the EU to be effective in the disciplining of member states, it needs to be able to sanction. Cutting of EU funds because of problems with the rule of law in some of them might be a good idea”. This is the beginning of the commentary [in Croatian language] by the correspondent of one of the most read newspapers in Croatia, Jutarnji list, Augustin Palokaj on the occasion of the tenth report by the European Commission on the progress of Bulgaria and Romania under the unique for the EU Cooperation and Verification Mechanism. This is an idea, which euinside has put forward on numerous occasion...

17Dec

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Croatia

Chocolinda in the Balkan World

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini After the European Council Croatia Emerged as a True Member of the EU Croatian President: Do We Really Believe in the Rule of Law? Is Nationalism Growing in Croatia? Right when the Croatian market is being shaken by findings of salmonella in the chicken and minced meat, as well as an obvious weak food control, society was scandalised by a chocolate problem. Chocolate had no other problems besides being... Serbian. On December 6th, President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović visited Dubrovnik on the occasion of the Day of Dubrovnik War Veterans, who defended the town from the Yugoslav People’s Army in the beginning of the 1990’s. In the course of her visit the president gave gifts to war veterans’ children consisting of sweets and a photograph of herself with an autogra...

11Dec

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Croatia, Europe, Serbia

Chocolinda in the Balkan World

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, Zagreb After the European Council Croatia Emerged as a True Member of the EU Croatian President: Do We Really Believe in the Rule of Law? Is Nationalism Growing in Croatia? Right when the Croatian market is being shaken by findings of salmonella in the chicken and minced meat, as well as an obvious weak food control, society was scandalised by a chocolate problem. Chocolate had no other problems besides being... Serbian. On December 6th, President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović visited Dubrovnik on the occasion of the Day of Dubrovnik War Veterans, who defended the town from the Yugoslav People’s Army in the beginning of the 1990’s. In the course of her visit the president gave gifts to war veterans’ children consisting of sweets and a photograph of herself with an...

18Nov

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Bosnia, Croatia, Europe, Serbia

Crime Without Punishment – a Contemporary Balkan-Global Novel

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini The entire wrongness of the modern world is evident on the territory of the former Yugoslavia today. While in Croatia they remember with pride and sadness the battle for Vukovar and tell old and new stories of back then, mentioning Chetniks and Šešelj-ies, on the other side of the border Vojislav Šešelj, freer than ever, continues to spread his hatred. The difference now is that this is the new normal. It represents victory over political correctness, secured by Donald Trump – the most avid fighter against political correctness, which includes one of the greatest achievements of human civilisation – respect for those who are different. Today’s review of the press in former Yugoslavia mirrors all that is wrong with the world, built on the legacy of the Cold War. To...

9Nov

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Croatia

After the European Council Croatia Emerged as a True Member of the EU

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini The Canada Agreement and the Democratic Legitimacy - a New European Riddle When Sanctions Are More Appalling than the Atrocities of Aleppo Welcome to the EU of Returned Sovereignty! In the days surrounding the October European Council everyone focused not just on the most painful subjects, like the comprehensive economic agreement with Canada and relations with Russia, but also on the debut of British Prime Minister Theresa May on European scene after she stepped into office last summer. And although there was not much drama surrounding her participation and neither was the subject of the Brits’ decision to leave the EU addressed at all, all eyes were locked on Mrs May’s figure. This somehow left in the shadows another debut, which is a total antipode of the ...

5Nov

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Croatia

Bosnia Slapped Croatia in the Face

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini The policy of the new Croatian government regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina got a resounding slap in the face from Sarajevo just two days after the first official visit of Prime Minister Andrej Plenković abroad (to BiH), commented Croatian media. On Monday, two days after the return of the Croatian delegation from BiH, a dozen veterans from the Croatian army (BiH) got arrested in Orašje on charges in war crimes. Minister of Foreign Affairs Davor Ivo Stier and Minister of Defence Damir Krstičević expressed their concern regarding the incident. Jutarnji list and many other media today quote the Facebook status of former Minister of Defence Ante Kotromanović, who asks what were Andrej Plenković and Davor Ivo Stier doing in BiH during the two days of their visit. Accor...

2Nov

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Croatia

The Big (non)Event in Croatia – Kolinda Spoke, but Said Nothing

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini Greetings from festive Zagreb, where today is a holiday because of All Saints Day! Regardless of the day being a holiday, there is a lot to be found in Croatian media. In today’s edition we are also following who is in opposition to the new/old majority in the Croatian Parliament and we continue the subject of Pernarism. We also keep an eye on the development of the latest Serbian drama – the “Jajinci” case and the “Montenegro” spy affair, as well as the ongoing dilemma of whether the Belgrade-Priština dialogue will survive. A long awaited and badly spent interview Croatian journalists and Twitter activists have been asking for months when will they finally hear from the Croatian president. They marked the weeks and then the months since her last press conference....

1Nov

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Croatia, Russia

Does Kremlin Finally Have a Man in Croatia?

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini There numerous subjects in today’s press in the countries of former Yugoslavia, but the most important ones seem to me to be the first foreign visit of the new Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković (to Bosnia and Herzegovina, of course), the ongoing Serbian drama around the Belgrade-Priština dialogue, and the spy novel, starring Russia. Let us begin with the fact that Moscow’s attention is now directed at the new political star of Croatia Ivan Pernar – leader of the anti-European and anti-NATO party Live Wall, which managed to secure eight seats in the September 11 snap parliamentary elections. Not a day goes by without having the vocal MP cause outrage in Croatian public domain, but this week he managed to draw the attention of Kremlin-sponsored Russian media ...