Tag: Western Balkans

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, Zagreb There Is a Serious Crisis of Democracy in the Western Balkans Region Could Russia Recognise Kosovo? Is Serbia Preparing for Elections or a New Balance of Powers There is some good news and some bad news for the Western Balkans in the past few weeks. The good news is that the European Union has finally come to realise that there is something rotten in the Balkans and has matured to a change in the narrative. The bad news is this is too late and too little. For months the region has been shaking in instability and so far just verbal conflicts, which are raising the tension to the levels of prior to the bloody disintegration of former Yugoslavia. Macedonia is imploding into a severe political crisis, which has the potential of becoming an inter-ethnic co...