New Lines Institute is launching its Western Balkans Observatory, warns the region is "inching closer than ever to a return to political violence"

The New Lines Institute in the US is launching the “Western Balkans Observatory” with the goal to provide “rigorous, non-partisan analysis for policymakers” in the West. The experts behind the initiative warn that the Western Balkans are “inching closer than ever to a return to the political violence, ethnic cleansing, and mass migration that plagued the region following the dissolution of the Yugoslav Federation”, and that policymakers in Brussels and Washington, “who once played a pivotal role in brokering and implementing peace deals in the Balkans, have had their attention diverted to new and looming crises”. Pročitaj više