Analysis

Thewesternbalkans. By Theodora Mileva Theodora Mileva (2006) is a student at the University of Vienna, Founder of  the  first Bulgarian  podcast for culture and art outside Bulgaria - „ArtPath Podcast“, and an activist in the Bulgarian cultural organisation „Cyril and Methodius“...

Thewesternbalkans. The protests in Serbia, which began after the collapse of a canopy at the train station in Novi Sad, which killed 15 people, escalated in nine months from popular outrage to an attempted coup d’état, accompanied by unprecedented violence. A...

Thewesternbalkans. Commentary of Mikhail Yaruev, head of the Russian-Balkan Center for Business Cooperation and Culture: The meeting of the leaders of Russia and the United States in Anchorage is an important step towards the formation of a multipolar world. Even in...

Thewesternbalkans. According to Sasa Djordjevic - a senior analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, violent extremism in the region is not only powered by ethnic tensions but by complex financial networks – which authorities are doing little...

Thewesternbalkans. The EU-US trade “deal” that President Trump and President von der Leyen negotiated in Scotland has generated a great deal of interest and commentary. How does Russia react to the EU’s promise to abandon Russian gas and instead purchase...

Thewesternbalkans. China's strategy for settling on the European continent through the countries of the Western Balkans continues to be relevant and is being implemented at a corresponding timing. On the other hand, the six countries in the region are making...

Thewesternbalkans. According to the European Parliament information, on 9 of July 2025, with 461 votes in favour, 121 against and 107 abstentions, the European Parliament approved a Resolution on the 2023 and 2024 Commission Progress Reports on North Macedonia prepared...

Thewesternbalkans. To be or not to be? Will there be an EU-China summit or not? This is now a €1 million question among European China experts. Not only did Xi Jinping refuse to go to Brussels this year, as diplomatic reciprocity...

Thewesternbalkans. Vučić too early announced the end of the color revolution On June 30, Aleksandar Vučić announced the end of the “color revolution” in Serbia and said that street blockades will soon be a thing of the past. According to the...

Thewesternbalkans. EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos's interview with the Slovenian magazine Mladina, in which she stated that she "does not want Slovenia to have a Janez Janša government again", calls into question the fundamental principle of political neutrality enshrined in...