Serwer to Thaci: Don’t sell Kosovo’s sovereignty for a bowl of porridge

Daniel Serwer, Professor of Practice of Conflict Management at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and expert on Balkans, is an opponent of land and people swaps in the Balkans, proposed by presidents Hashim Thaci of Kosovo and Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia.

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Cash outside Albania’s banking system reached a record 5.6 billion euros, last month. Tirana Times, August 30, 2026 – The amount of cash circulating outside Albania’s banking system has reached a record high, raising fresh concerns over the scale of the informal economy, the possible presence of illicit money and …

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Mladić’s Death Exposes the Balkans’ Unfinished Reckoning With War Crimes

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Monday Briefing from the Balkans: August 31, 2026

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. Original post Here