PROTOCOL to the Agreement of 2 June 2015 In the Agreement of June 2, article 6, first indent, it is stated: “By June 10, the parties shall agree on the exact organization of the government preparing the elections”. On 19 June, leaders reconfirmed their commitment to the aforementioned agreement inContinue Reading
Remarks:Victoria Nuland Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Dubrovnik, Croatia Thanks, Lara, it’s great to be back. Thanks to Minister Vesna Pusic and all our Croatian hosts for gathering us in this beautiful, historic place. Croatia has come so far since this forum began ten years agoContinue Reading
By Professor Thomas Shannon Stiles Part 3- The Expansion and the Current Crisis In October 2006, over 78% of Panamanians voted in support of the $5.25 billion Canal expansion which was to include: two new sets of single-lane, three-step locks (one set at the Atlantic entrance and one at theContinue Reading
By Selim Ibraimi- Center for Security Studies and Development (CSSD) The state security dilemma for the Balkan states lies in the tendency of governments to go back in history. Alliances have an important and center role in Balkan politics. States and governments seems that don’t want progress, membership on NATOContinue Reading
Will Skopje’s Wiretap Scandal Drive It Closer to Russia? By Besir Ceka Macedonia is embroiled in a deep political crisis. Since February of this year, over 500 wiretapped recordings of alleged conversations of various officials, including the sitting Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and some of his cabinet members, haveContinue Reading
By Selim Ibraimi- Founder of the Center for Security Studies and Development The last military and police intervention in the city of Kumanovo have brought the memories of the Balkan Wars. What is going on in Macedonia? Finally by all indicators Macedonia, becomes a flashpoint in the region. The ethnicContinue Reading
By Selim Ibraimi-Founder of Center for Security Studies and Development- Macedonia According to the latest reports, political forces in Serbia and Macedonia are turning the region into a ‘battlefield’ and military polygon. However, due to Russian expansion, States of Eastern Europe and the Balkans could ”construct” new zones of “ColdContinue Reading
By Selim Ibraimi -The Center for Security Studies and Development-Macedonia –Gas transit lines, profiles of governments, and corridors that affect Macedonia and neighboring countries are hot spots of the race between the United States and Russia in the Balkans. 1. Ukraine and finally by all indicators including Macedonia, becomes theContinue Reading
By Dragana Mileusnic-EUACTIV Dragana Mileusnic is energy policy coordinator for South East Europe at Climate Action Network Europe Countries of the Western Balkans seeking to join the EU have made almost no progress on aligning their environmental and climate policies with the EU principles. In fact, they are diminishing prospectsContinue Reading