Interview with Branimir Filipović, Acting Assistant for Security Policy of the Foreign Minister of Serbia, in which we have discussed the foreign policy of Serbia, its cooperation with NATO and the upcoming revision of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP).

Publication date:11/2017

Author:Nicolás De Pedro, Research Fellow, CIDOB and Francis Ghilès, Associate Senior Researcher, CIDOB (eds.)

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Direktorka Centra za evroatlantske studije (CEAS) iz Beograda, Jelena Milić, ocijenila je da dolazak delegacije ruske stranke Rodina, čiji je osnivač potpredsjednik ruske Vlade Dmitri Rogozin, nije slučajan, te da je u vezi s opstrukcijom suđenja za pokušaj terorizma na dan izbora prošle godine.

The Berlin Process, initiated back in 2014 with the Conference of Western Balkan States in Berlin, aimed to consolidate the regional efforts and keep the dynamics in EU integration process amidst growing Euroscepticism in the region on one side and enlargement fatigue on the other. It gave a new impetus to the entire regional cooperation process, positioning the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) as a central hub for communication both within the region and between the region and the EU. The Summits that followed (in Vienna, 2015; Paris 2016 and finally Trieste 2017) gradually streamlined the role of the RCC to a focused, targeted one that we have today.

Nacionalni konvent o Evropskoj uniji, Kuća ljudskih prava i više organizacija civilnog društva pozivaju nadležne organe da hitno istraže govor mržnje, sve otvorene pretnje i pozive na ubistvo upućene narodnoj poslanici Mariniki Tepić i da sve odgovorne privedu pravdi.

The timing couldn’t have been better. Ukraine’s war is dragging on, Russia is proposing a sham peacekeeping plan, the humanitarian crisis in the east is worsening, and the conflict is receiving increasingly fewer mentions in the international press. In this midst of this dismal news, Ukraine’s deputy speaker of parliament Oksana Syroid organized the Lviv Security Forum to figure a way out. Held November 29-December 1 on the campus of Ukrainian Catholic University in its new state-of-the-art library, the forum was meant to bolster the foreign policy credentials of the Lviv-based Samopomich Party and to convene international experts to discuss what should replace the shaky post-Cold War system.

Šef srpske diplomatije Ivica Dačić rekao je danas američkom državnom sekretaru Reksu Tilersonu da promene u spoljnoj politici SAD ne mogu da donose predstavnici starog američkog establišmenta koji brane politiku iz 1990-ih godina, saopštilo je Ministarstvo spoljnih poslova Srbije.

Generalni sekretar NATO Jens Stoltneberg izjavio je danas da je na zemljama Zapadnog Balkana da smanje zapaljivu retoriku koja se mogla čuti nakon presude Haškog tribunala u slučaju Prlić i ostali, ali da je NATO tu da pomogne da se izbegnu konflikti.

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union faced off in an existential struggle between two antithetical systems. Either the Soviet bloc would “bury” the West, as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened in 1956, or Western principles of democratic accountability, individual rights, and the rule of law would triumph over Soviet totalitarianism. The eventual outcome—the demise of the Soviet system and the expansion of the U.S.-led international order—showed that military power is essential to American national security but also that the United States must advance its goals through the quiet resilience of democratic institutions and the attractive pull of alliances.

Poslanik SNS Dragan Šormaz kaže da je poseta članova Predsedništva BiH korisna, jer Srbija i na ovaj način pokazuje da vodi otvorenu politiku prema svima. Izjave poput onih Bakira Izetbegovića, Šormaz vidi kao stvari za unutrašnju upotrebu. Dodaje da je saradnja s NATO-om odlična, i da ta organizacija poštuje politiku vojne neutralnosti Srbije.